What is up with Moroccan 1500m running these days?

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  • El Gaouita

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    6 years ago 05/10/2018 3:11pm EDT

    Just checking the IAAF rankings for this year. I know it's early days in the season, but only one Moroccan has broken 3:40 so far - Abdelaati IGUIDER 3:36, who is 31 and appears to be in the twilight of his career (didn't run faster all last season).

    As comparison, 10 Americans have so far broken 3:40, 10 Australians (obviously aided by having their summer seaon already), 9 Kenyans, 5 Brits, 3 Ethiopians, and 2 Mexicans. Even an Indian and a Japanese runner have gone faster than the fastest Moroccan!!!

    As I said, Iguider appears to be finished, and is Makhloufi ever coming back? He's 30 and been out since 2016, and I guess they were both age cheats anyway so probably older.

    What happened to Moroccan middle-distance talent?

  • El Gaouita

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 05/10/2018 3:12pm EDT
    re: El Gaouita
    https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/middlelong/1500-metres/outdoor/men/senior/2018?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true

  • erdyb

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 05/10/2018 3:16pm EDT
    re: El Gaouita

    Their last good miler got bought by Qatar and pumped full of drugs.

  • Hardloper

    Member since 08/20/2013.

    17,523 posts. Last post 5 hours ago.
    6 years ago 05/10/2018 3:34pm EDT
    re: erdyb

    It's way too early in the season. There are still lots of Moroccans including the ones running for Spain, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, etc...

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    SUPERIOR COACH JS

    Member since 01/22/2018.

    3,211 posts. Last post 2 years ago.
    6 years ago 05/10/2018 3:52pm EDT
    re: El Gaouita

    El Gaouita wrote:

    Just checking the IAAF rankings for this year. I know it's early days in the season, but only one Moroccan has broken 3:40 so far - Abdelaati IGUIDER 3:36, who is 31 and appears to be in the twilight of his career (didn't run faster all last season).

    As comparison, 10 Americans have so far broken 3:40, 10 Australians (obviously aided by having their summer seaon already), 9 Kenyans, 5 Brits, 3 Ethiopians, and 2 Mexicans. Even an Indian and a Japanese runner have gone faster than the fastest Moroccan!!!

    As I said, Iguider appears to be finished, and is Makhloufi ever coming back? He's 30 and been out since 2016, and I guess they were both age cheats anyway so probably older.

    What happened to Moroccan middle-distance talent?

    I have contact with a couple of Moroccans at Facebook and they tell me the government don`t pump in money as they used to do in special national running programs as they used to do back in the time of Aouita ,Skah,Guerrouj and so on. It`s basically a problem of lack of money for the Morocco Athletic Federation. Could have been nice to take over as Headcoach for a new wave of top international running with my DANCAN-system ......the talents are there but they need the very best training program and money support. - The Magic Wizard -

  • Lets Tell It Like It Is

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 05/10/2018 4:05pm EDT
    re: El Gaouita

    El Gaouita wrote:

    What happened to Moroccan middle-distance talent?

    The ABP.

  • Hardloper

    Member since 08/20/2013.

    17,523 posts. Last post 5 hours ago.
    6 years ago 05/10/2018 4:08pm EDT
    re: Lets Tell It Like It Is

    Lets Tell It Like It Is wrote:

    El Gaouita wrote:

    What happened to Moroccan middle-distance talent?

    The ABP.

    true, I don't know why this website gives East Africa such a hard time when if you look at the history of busted dopers, it's dominated by Moroccans as well as Moroccan Europeans and even Americans (Trafeh)

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    ex-runner

    Member since 01/13/2018.

    2,631 posts. Last post 10 months ago.
    6 years ago 05/10/2018 6:03pm EDT
    re: Hardloper

    Hardloper wrote:

    It's way too early in the season. There are still lots of Moroccans including the ones running for Spain, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, etc...

    This. Moroccan's don't run for Morocco. Morocco isn't known to help out it's athletes that much at all and there are more opportunities in Europe/Middle East.

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