When a legitimate & dominant junior in Europe/USA (like Jacob Ingebrigsten) who is immersed in a professional training set-up & struggles at global junior championships against athletes clearly age cheating from Kenya & east Africa it underlines the scale of the problem. World Athletics burying their heads in the sand. Athletics Kenya happy to turn a blind eye too (as they do with many other issues).
This isn’t just a Kenya problem , it is an African problem . First passport when they get to go to under age championships , 5 years younger is pretty standard
When a legitimate & dominant junior in Europe/USA (like Jacob Ingebrigsten) who is immersed in a professional training set-up & struggles at global junior championships against athletes clearly age cheating from Kenya & east Africa it underlines the scale of the problem. World Athletics burying their heads in the sand. Athletics Kenya happy to turn a blind eye too (as they do with many other issues).
Excellent point. It will be interesting if Kenya underperforms in Peru. Just looking at their 800m men, it seems vastly inferior to previous championships.
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Excellent point. It will be interesting if Kenya underperformed in Peru. Just looking at their 800m men, it seems vastly inferior to previous championships.
Did you read the article Hoady? 26 Kenyans from the last four world U20.championships under investigation. Statistically alone, there has to be a good chance Wayonyi being one of them.
Excellent point. It will be interesting if Kenya underperformed in Peru. Just looking at their 800m men, it seems vastly inferior to previous championships.
Did you read the article Hoady? 26 Kenyans from the last four world U20.championships under investigation. Statistically alone, there has to be a good chance Wayonyi being one of them.
You should get your paranoid personality disorder looked into.
Did you read the article Hoady? 26 Kenyans from the last four world U20.championships under investigation. Statistically alone, there has to be a good chance Wayonyi being one of them.
There is no confirmation that the names are only athletes who made world juniors teams. There was also a world youth championships in that time in 2017 and several U20 championships for Cross Country or regional champs (Commonwealth, East African). So likely this is looking at several hundred (if not over a thousand) athletes not the 75 or so from 4 U20 Track Champs. Your Wanyonyi fixation is strange because he hasn’t competed in junior competition since 2021, so his age cheating would require him to be born earlier than 2002.
Age cheating only matters in the junior ranks. If you are an Olympic champion if you are 20 or 24, it doesn't matter.
Read the article. Wayoumi is the world u20 champ from 2021. Kenyan teams since 2016 are.being investigated and will face sanctions if guilty. Of course Kenya will almost certainly give him a pass.
Wanting someone faster than you to be disqualified because their listed age at a senior championship is wrong is so very British.
They impair the development of the rest.of the world's juniors, deny.them places in finals, medals, instill in them the belief that Kenyans can't be beat. Is it OK for Kenyans to dope at junior competitions too?
The "juniors" who faced Jakob...... George Manangoi, Justus Soget, Edward Zakayo, Milkesa Mengesha, Tadese Worku... all complete nobodies now. Makes me wonder how old they really were at the "U20" competitions.
Most egregious / hilarious age cheat right now is that "17-year-old" Ethiopian. Gonna be nauseating to hear shills claim he's a "teenager" for the next two years.
Wanting someone faster than you to be disqualified because their listed age at a senior championship is wrong is so very British.
They impair the development of the rest.of the world's juniors, deny.them places in finals, medals, instill in them the belief that Kenyans can't be beat. Is it OK for Kenyans to dope at junior competitions too?
Always an excuse - the mantra of a loser. No wonder Pattison choked.