Chicago winner today has never run a track race

More like a new breed of drugs.

And didn't the commentator say he had malaria earlier this year? Jesus!

Peace Out wrote:

And didn't the commentator say he had malaria earlier this year? Jesus!

Malaria causes a break down of red blood cells, which can lead to anaemia. Not to make light of a disease that still kills hundreds of thousands every year, but coming of the back of Chris Froome's TdF victory, this may well be the year of recovered anaemics.

That's because of his doping. He knows they test for PEDs way more strictly at track meets so he didn't want to risk getting caught. He emerged to get one big payday and will never be seen again.

He had never run at all before 2010. He said he was concentrating on farming until then.

You mean besides his wins at Berlin Half (59min) and the Tokyo marathon?

Kimetto's time today 2:03:45 is a world junior Record lol! Remember he was born in 1994!

that's hilarious. Kenyans don't count all the running they do all their life, playing, getting around going to school ect plus farming works your body out so they run all their lives but they don't call it running until they start to actually train, in reality he already had a huge base. This is from first hand experience.

Calgary wrote:

Kimetto's time today 2:03:45 is a world junior Record lol! Remember he was born in 1994!

1984. He's 29, started running at 26.

Fit and healthy young man will get fully fit in 3 years after after that you may still improve. Talent and enviroment will win everytime.

Nature and Nurture. Not Nature v Nurture

There is no village in America with 3000 elite runners. So I suppose you are doing ok with littel training groups of 5 people.

Ryan hall just visited HATT, thats 10 years behind times. I remember talking to kipligat about going there 10 years ago for a holiday and i was just a novice 34.oo 10km guy. Obviously they dont have to go there for altitude, but they do for the groups.

you all do give your USA athletes a hard time and also put down kenyans when also hoping to be like them.

Why dont you send 20 talent identified 18 year olds there for 3 years funded and supported and see what the result is. Wouldnt cost very much, sure many young guns would go for 50,ooo dollars a year.

probably they would bread and get a bit more african genetics in their offspring.

Former Irish athlete and 5000m world champion Eamonn Coghlan traveled to Kenya. On his trip, he went to visit a school in Iten and while he was chatting with the students (a 40-50 classroom), he asked them who's a runner? No more than 3 raised their hands...that's because others know they can run but are not ''runners''. As in Kenya even in East Africa, if you see yourself as a runner is because you train and race. You represent your school at meetings, the police, the army or very few for private clubs.

When a guy like kipsang or kimetto says he started running at age 26, that means he started training seriously (like a pro) at age 26.

For instance, Kimetto was a farmer before 2010. And Goeffrey Mutai discovered him...hold on now, you think he discovered him while on his run and saw that boy and went wow what a milking machine!!! No it means, Kimetto was training too, either he went on fartlek sessions or track workouts and kimetto proved them to be a man and was invited to join the group.

Now, they had to make him get a manager or a shoe contract (sponsor). Kimetto consider that period where he started running (cause now, he is on the ''list'' and can have in income, train full time and hire somebody else to take care business (cows) back home).

You can't just go run with these guys in a fartlek session at altitude with zero training, it takes high motivation, years of training and confidence.

When friends of yours are posting great times on roads and you know they were no better than you when young, you know you can do it too. On the top that, they get income from it (not shabby paydays, we're talking about millions in shillings of course). Some are willing to die man to get that one opportunity to even win a single race of 20,000$.

Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:

That's because of his doping. He knows they test for PEDs way more strictly at track meets so he didn't want to risk getting caught. He emerged to get one big payday and will never be seen again.

If you didn't know who he was before yesterday you are a moron who doesn't know elite distance running. He's had more than one big payday.

Nice explanation.