Faith Kipyegon what a woman!

"Our limits are only limited by the limits of our minds"
Faith Kipyegon Greatest Woman Middle and Long Distance Runner Ever.

In reply to Brerzerk

Allyuh doh be suspicious of Kenyan athletes with the revelations that have come out in recent years? I mean people said the same thing about JA which was rubbish because Jamaica dominated the sports it has traditionally dominated. There have always been Jamaican sprint phenoms. Kenya is competing and winning and at times winning in sports that they didn’t really compete in or even enter. The African record holder in the 100m is a Kenyan, who ironically did serve a doping ban. I’m not saying all of them are on it, but I do have a suspicion a few are on something

In reply to Brerzerk

and this is not to say that i don't think athletes from the so-called firt world are not cheating. in fact i think its even more rife there because it is driven by the private sector, meaning there are infinite sources from which an enterprising athlete source his PEDs. And we all remember the scandal of the GB cycling where one of their doctors was actively purchasing banned testosterone products

In reply to Jumpstart

You make an interesting point I never thought out. Interestingly, that record holder got beaten in the 200m at The Kenyan trials. Still, I think Kipyegon is just special and great

In reply to Jumpstart

A bit unfair pseudo-accusation not so brother?

Like the WI teams from yesteryear the natural talent is now getting to branch into other types of running, and with the access to technology for training and performance thanks to Nike and Adidas, and NB and ASICS and their affiliate training centres.

In reply to Halliwell

Maybe. But why I mentioned Kenya is because there are accusations of state run/sponsored doping programs in that country. Now as I said, this does not mean that so-called first world athletes aren’t cheating. I mentioned the controversy with British cycling and we all know about the sophisticated doping regime lance armstrong, balco and others were running. But I find it odd that they’re successful in sports that they weren’t even competitive in before. It’s not like Grenada and the Bahamas who were competitive for years before bursting into success. Alaine Francique from Grenada was nobody to underestimate in athletics. Ditto with the male Bahamian 400m runners in the early 2000s. Or even like Trinidad who have success, then relatively long periods of decline and then resurfacing again. Remember before Ato in 1996, Trinidad went 20 years without winning anything at the Olympics. But that all happened within athletics. Abd even with George Bovell III, an exceptional swimmer, who was unfortunate to loose his pet event because of the 2007 accident, he trained outside of TT

In reply to Jumpstart

Is Keshorn Walcott’s javelin gold medal at the Olympics a case for scrutiny? TT didn’t have a history in that much

In reply to Halliwell

Keshorn had a Cuban coach. They have an exceptional record in the field events. The fact that he used to play cricket would have been beneficial as well I’m sure. We don’t have any record of outsiders going to Kenya to coach the sprints, not even Nigerians and Ghanaians who have been traditionally the African nations competitive in those events

In reply to Jumpstart

Kenyan coaches have proven success in heaploads, and have travelled the world learning tech