Three more Kenyan runners busted

My concern is your obsession with busting Kenyans. Do you google it all day?

2 retired guys and a C-level Kenyan don’t bother to abide by the testing protocols. Really grasping for straws are we?

Great to confirm doping doesn’t work. No names.

Lost his wife to a Kenyan and has never really recovered.

Three more Kenyans suspended in one day and the doping apologists immediately are out in force to claim that I'm 'obsessed' or 'racist' for posting the link, while the post itself gets universally downvoted.

Welcome to LetsDope.

This is an absolutely astoinishing comment.

If you don't think THREE Kenyans suspended in one day is not worthy of even posting about, then I don't know what to say. Presumably, given the time of day, all these doping apologists downvoting this post and upvoting comments like yours, are American. Really does leave me suspecting that American distance running might have a doping problem almost as bad as Kenya's.

You're overly obsessed and not in a healthy way. Like others noted earlier, these are irrelevant runners in a country full of them. Get a life or something.

Then try saying nothing. Everyone's tired of you sht anyway, I doubt there's a single person who wants to see another Coevett post.

Three suspended in one day? Is it too good to be true?

Provisional suspension for whereabouts failure:

3/8 - Kisorio

3/4 - Kimutai

First Instance Decision for whereabouts failure:

3/29 - Gachaga

Really grasping for excuses.

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Morris Munene GACHAGA | Profile | World Athletics

Link:worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/morr...

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Morris Munene GACHAGA | Profile | World Athletics

Link:worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/morr...

worldathletics.org

Morris Munene GACHAGA | Profile | World Athletics

Link:worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/morr...

What evidence do you have that they had 'retired and didn't bother with whereabouts'? Why would they have suddenly retired when still winning races at age 29 and 32?

Coevett, the last competition of Kimutai and Kisorio were in 2019. After that time, because of COVID, they didn't have any more contract with any management, and for that reason they quitted running.

Justus Kipkosgei Kimutai : last race in Taiyuan on 8 Sep 2019 (marathon in 2:09:46)

Mathew Kisorio : last race in Beijing on 3 Nov 2019 (marathon in 2:07:06).

Without any opportunity to compete (the only markes for those athletes was China, but in the last two years 95% of marathons were cancelled in the Country), they went back to their main activity : to be FARMERS, and a farmer doesn't have any clue about whereabouts as athlete, when is no longer an athlete.

Different is the case of Morris Munene Gachaga, still in full activity and in younger age.

Anyway, what you continue not to understand is that the different basic situation in Kenya, compared with western Countries, is connected with a totaly different mentality. If you are a Kenyan running 2:07, you are not a Professional Athlete, you are a Farmer.

These are the times of Kenyan athletes for the Kenyan lists in the last 4 years, in position 30 and 50 :

2018 : 2:07:28 (30) - 2:08:43 (50)

2019 : 2:06:59 (30) - 2:08:22 (50)

2020 : 2:10:23 (30) - 2:13:16 (50)

2021 : 2:06:56 (30) - 2:08:25 (50)

In 2020 there were very little opportunities to compete because of the cancellation of the most part of Marathons in the world, and many athletes of medium-high level decided to quit training because no chances of competing (Kisorio and Kimutai among them).

Athletes in top 30 in Kenya are not in any official international whereabouts (WADA and AIU). They are in the National Whereabouts, and with not systemic training (such as happened during the COVID period) don't have the mentality to be "prisoners" of a daily window obliging them to be at home, every day, at the same time. The normal life for a normal person in Kenya doesn't work in that way.

To put these cases at the same level of the case of missed tests of Coleman, sprinters earning millions dollars per year, and leaving in US, is an insult to a normal intellingence of every person, and, because you are not stupid, I kindly invite you to be more flexible, considering which is the real life for those athletes in Kenya, comparing with the life, and the MUSTS, of some European or American athletes able to run their same times, in continents where you are in top 5 with with that level of perfrmances.

Did it send a tingle down your leg when you got the news?

When the hell are they going to start testing in Ethiopia?

Maybe you should rethink this, Renato.

Kenyans are more motivated as their options are likely to be limited to success in running or near poverty. It’s the same as for Dominicans in baseball.