Kenyan 9.77 sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala cancelled? Kenyan sprint star Ferdinand Omanyala doesn't have any big sponsors of note

There has to be more to this story because most Kenyans are dirty.

He was probably secretly born in the USA.

Bandofopoko wrote:

There has to be more to this story because most Kenyans are dirty.

This was my first thought too.

Lamont Jacobs?

"We hope it will provide him and his family consistent and sustainable income beyond his athletic career. Our firm understood our assignment, and carried it through with the honor and respect deserving of any of our great athletes.

"However, we also understand when it's time to leave in order to allow our former client the space to grow and take charge of his own destiny. We continue to celebrate Ferdinand's progress and successes and will always take pride in the strides he makes for himself and for the larger Kenyan sprints community,"

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Go Kenya!

The way the OP framed the original post led me and possibly many others to think that this K sprinter (Omanyala) had violated something but in fact if you read the content of the message of the people who used to support him they continue to do so but they are simply letting him fly on with his own wings and wishing him luck.

Do you really think that this organization would continue to wish the best to someone who has cheated?

Am I missing something? As up till now, we have no reason to believe that he is anything but clean.

Ghost1 wrote:

The way the OP framed the original post led me and possibly many others to think that this K sprinter (Omanyala) had violated something but in fact if you read the content of the message of the people who used to support him they continue to do so but they are simply letting him fly on with his own wings and wishing him luck.

Do you really think that this organization would continue to wish the best to someone who has cheated?

Am I missing something? As up till now, we have no reason to believe that he is anything but clean.

Yes, you missed the fact that this is the Letsrun.com message board.

YouDunDidIt wrote:

Lamont Jacobs?

He’s half American, so odds are that he’s at least half doped as a sprinter.

welcome back coevett

C'mon man, you really think they'd drop him just when he's hit the stratosphere and potentially the next Usain Bolt?

Do you expect them to say :'this dude is clearly dirtier than a Bombay sewer and we're disassociating our brand from him before he becomes the 238th Kenyan to get busted'?

Did you consider that after running 9.77, he wants to be paid like an international class 100m runner and not just a top Kenyan? Assuming he demanded more money and marketing and they balked.

You said that you were leaving forever. Yet another Coevett lie.

Why does he look like he weighs more that 124 pounds? He can’t be from Kenya.

I didn't realize there was at thread about this already. I started my own and now have merged it. I put my thoughts up top below Coevett.

He served a 14 month suspension in 2018 for glucocorticoid betamethasone and he's running significantly faster this year.

poster xyz wrote:

You said that you were leaving forever. Yet another Coevett lie.

He's incapable of refraining from lying. His word is mud.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Did you consider that after running 9.77, he wants to be paid like an international class 100m runner and not just a top Kenyan? Assuming he demanded more money and marketing and they balked.

Yeah, I imagine it's a combination of him recording a historically fast time and wanting his income to now reflect his accomplishments and companies, aware of his past, don't want to gamble on someone who may end up in trouble again soon.