Almaz Ayana - Does anyone know if has plans to return to the sport?

So nobody's heard anything then? 😭

WADA prolly told her to get off the sauce or be exposed.

She is a mom now, she was at Yalemzerf Yehualaw's half marathon world record party! Unfortunately, the course was short so not ratified! But Ayana doesn't seem to be training for now, may be she moved on!

There's a super cute pic of her and her kid posted on her Facebook (or Meta?) Nov. 23.

Maybe she knows she can't return to the top and so she doesn't care.

With or without the sauce, she moved like a gazelle.

Yeah, she's looking a little thicc and content in that photo so I don't see a path back. Ayana and Gidey are probably the most beautiful runners I've ever seen. Slightly similar motion from Gudaf Tsegay and AgnesTirop (RIP) but not quite.

If her name was Becky, she was from Missouri and she was a pasty white chick, you’d have started the GoFundMe for her baby shower yourself.

someone on that much juice would likely explode on the track. And I'm sure that the Ethiopian federation didn't appreciate that she made it look too easy to run a 5K split faster than the winning time in the 5K during her 10K. At least all the Dibaba sisters followed the script and won without making it look so inhuman (barely) that people wouldn't just throw their hands up in disgust.

Her 10K final is one of the most depressing and awful things in our sport in the last 10 years.

charles yo wrote:

someone on that much juice would likely explode on the track. And I'm sure that the Ethiopian federation didn't appreciate that she made it look too easy to run a 5K split faster than the winning time in the 5K during her 10K. At least all the Dibaba sisters followed the script and won without making it look so inhuman (barely) that people wouldn't just throw their hands up in disgust.

Her 10K final is one of the most depressing and awful things in our sport in the last 10 years.

I wouldn't go that far but it was pretty damn bad.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

charles yo wrote:

someone on that much juice would likely explode on the track. And I'm sure that the Ethiopian federation didn't appreciate that she made it look too easy to run a 5K split faster than the winning time in the 5K during her 10K. At least all the Dibaba sisters followed the script and won without making it look so inhuman (barely) that people wouldn't just throw their hands up in disgust.

Her 10K final is one of the most depressing and awful things in our sport in the last 10 years.

I wouldn't go that far but it was pretty damn bad.

Ayana was clean. Change my mind.

If she was dirty then there is no way any of the BTC is clean. She has far more talent than any of those athletes and some of them have actually come close to her times.

Her quitting to focus on raising a family is an admirable decision. She had nothing more to prove in the sport and she made incredible money that will last her a lifetime if she is wise.

Semi-perfect cell wrote:

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

I wouldn't go that far but it was pretty damn bad.

Ayana was clean. Change my mind.

If she was dirty then there is no way any of the BTC is clean. She has far more talent than any of those athletes and some of them have actually come close to her times.

Her quitting to focus on raising a family is an admirable decision. She had nothing more to prove in the sport and she made incredible money that will last her a lifetime if she is wise.

For the 10K in Rio, she was essentially paced by Alice Aprot, as part of a misguided Kenyan plan to run the sting out of her legs. All it did was help her smash the WR. Her 5K gold at the worlds in Beijing was more impressive. She wiped the floor with peak G. Dibaba.

Could you post a link to the photo? Tried looking but couldn't see it myself.

Was it a "Kenyan" plan or simply Alice Aprot on her own? I read somewhere that it was the latter but who knows.

Would've been interesting to see what could've happened had the pace not been pushed so hard early on. Had Aprot not gone so hard from the gun I think it's probable it would've been ran akin to the London 2017 10k, and in that case is it possible Cheruiyot could've stuck with her? Outkicking a 14:24 5k split would've been tricky, but potentially possible for Cheruiyot off a pedestrian start to the race.