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Elite Athletics Thread

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Big_G
Big_G
Oct 2022
8:25am, 20 Oct 2022
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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before on here, but it is related to short courses.

I organise a club championship and one of the races was a local, official, measured, half. One of our runners went wrong on the course and only ran about 10 miles, but after crossing the line went to the organisers and said ‘I would have ran x’ and the RD updated his result. The runner wasn’t happy with what followed, but the club wrote to the race saying the runner should be DNFd but the race flatly refused, and it was only after the club got EA involved that the results were updated. We haven’t used that race in the competition since, but we may be forced to soon, as a couple of long-standing, local halfs are unfortunately not happening next year due to falling numbers/increasing costs.
larkim
larkim
Oct 2022
8:27am, 20 Oct 2022
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I'd love to run 10 miles of a half and then just get the results updated for "what I would have run"!

What a peculiar decision by the RD to record the result anyway.
fuzzyduck79
fuzzyduck79
Oct 2022
5:07pm, 20 Oct 2022
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Three of the pacemakers who ran the 1:59 INEOS challenge have been banned for drugs.

Twelve Kenyans sanctioned in the last 40 days.
larkim
larkim
Oct 2022
6:41pm, 20 Oct 2022
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Ouch. Not a good look for kipchoge / Nike / ineos being associated with those.
auburnette
auburnette
Oct 2022
8:06pm, 20 Oct 2022
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Noooo! Of all elite runners currently going Kipchoge is the one I most hope is clean. But the association doesn't look good.
damo_HAC
damo_HAC
Oct 2022
6:04pm, 23 Oct 2022
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If Kipchoge is not clean I would be very very surprised. I hope its not a Lance Armstrong moment.
fuzzyduck79
fuzzyduck79
Oct 2022
8:33pm, 23 Oct 2022
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Supposing Kipchoge did fail a drugs test and it came across Seb Coe’s desk. What do you think Coe would do?
larkim
larkim
Oct 2022
9:01pm, 23 Oct 2022
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A) it wouldn't
B) he'd ban him without a second thought
57.5 Degrees of Pain
57.5 Degrees of Pain
Oct 2022
9:03pm, 23 Oct 2022
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Supposing Kipchoge did fail a drugs test and it came across Seb Coe’s desk. What do you think Coe would do?
I assume that, like with shoe doping, the answer is 'Whatever Nike tells him to do'.
SPR
SPR
Oct 2022
9:06pm, 23 Oct 2022
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Does it actually come across Coe's desk in that way anyway?

Lance's PR to the general public AKA the cancer shield was exemplary as there wasn't really a reason to trust him over other athletes in fact quite the opposite. I'm not sure there's a reason to trust Kipchoge over other athletes but it would be a big blow to the sport.

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