Rita Jeptoo tests positive before Chicago!

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  • lonewolf
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2005
    • 16315
    • Indian Territory

    #16
    Originally posted by ExCoastRanger View Post
    "We will legally go after the person or the people that convinced Rita to do this,"
    I would seem to be a fairly simple matter for Jepto to identify who "convinced" her to do this.

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    • gh
      Administrator
      • Oct 2005
      • 69706
      • west of Westeros

      #17
      Until Jeptoo admits that she did take something (which to my understanding she has so far not done), the door remains open—even if just a small crack—that she wasn't "convinced" at all, but is a blissfully ignorant party to the whole thing.

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      • beebee
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2010
        • 4179
        • Chicago, Illinois

        #18
        Originally posted by Gabriella2 View Post
        Finally a high profile Kenyan positive. I wonder whether this means we're actually seeing the Kenyan Federation taking doping seriously now? And will we ever see an Ethiopian one?
        Other than pure success, Ethiopia has nothing to do with this one Kenyan positive.

        You're just on some issue driven witch hunt.

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        • Gabriella2
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2014
          • 1357

          #19
          Issue driven, yes, witch hunt, no.

          All the successful track and field nations have had their fair share of doping crises over the years except Kenya and Ethiopia. Why is this? It is a question we should be asking.

          It's not because they have had a dark past and are now clamping down with the toughest testing, like Germany and to a lesser degree, the USA. Or have lead the way and been at the forefront of testing, like the UK. Russia has been backed into a corner thanks to an embarrassing number of positives and biological passport issues, virtually all of the Ukranian sprint team has been wiped out and every few months we either get public criticism of Jamaican testing or a Jamaican postive (be that for stimulants or whatever) They've had no major implications like Spain has, with Operation Mountain Pass and the like.

          I guess it's just because Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes have a physical advantage and are far too innocent to be caught up in that doping nonsense.

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          • shivfan
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2009
            • 3183
            • Just outside London

            #20
            Drug testing in Kenya will always take second place in terms of priority to the issue of tackling terrorist-fuelled bombings in their country, and rightly so....

            If the rest of the world want to see the "Kenyan Federation taking doping seriously," then WADA and the rest of the world need to come up with the funding needed for them to do so.
            My heart is still in the Caribbean....

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            • Tuariki
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 9063
              • Rohe o Te Whanau a Apanui

              #21
              I wish it was possible to hand those hacking pricks over to ISIS.

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              • spammer
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2013
                • 533

                #22
                Jeptoo told her agent that she had a malaria shot and the doctor might have given her EPO sometime in the process without her knowing. Article is on the front page:
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                • Bob Duncan
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2005
                  • 1347
                  • The Heart of Dixie

                  #23
                  Originally posted by spammer View Post
                  Jeptoo told her agent that she had a malaria shot and the doctor might have given her EPO sometime in the process without her knowing. Article is on the front page:
                  http://running.competitor.com/2014/1...co-rosa_117410
                  Best laugh I've had all day. The hits just keep on coming!

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                  • El Toro
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2005
                    • 4810

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Bob Duncan View Post
                    Best laugh I've had all day. The hits just keep on coming!
                    While unlikely, it appears EPO is a legitimate treatment for some aspects of malarial infection.

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                    • gh
                      Administrator
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 69706
                      • west of Westeros

                      #25
                      wow….. backyard medicine at work?

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                      • Pego
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2005
                        • 13235
                        • beyond help

                        #26
                        Originally posted by El Toro View Post
                        While unlikely, it appears EPO is a legitimate treatment for some aspects of malarial infection.

                        http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2011/2011...ebral_malaria/

                        Another example of a huge gray area between legitimate treatment and intent of PEDs.
                        "A beautiful theory killed by an ugly fact."
                        by Thomas Henry Huxley

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                        • Gabriella2
                          Senior Member
                          • Jul 2014
                          • 1357

                          #27
                          I would feel some sympathy for her if this story is true. However, intentional or not, she is responsible for what goes in her body, blah blah blah.
                          The other things is, it obviously helped her performance, running a PB and course record. But I guess we all know EPO assists performance anyway.

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                          • bennyg
                            Senior Member
                            • Dec 2006
                            • 551
                            • cheltenham,england

                            #28
                            Originally posted by spammer View Post
                            Jeptoo told her agent that she had a malaria shot and the doctor might have given her EPO sometime in the process without her knowing. Article is on the front page:
                            http://running.competitor.com/2014/1...co-rosa_117410
                            Great joke. who thought that one up.... her agent, her lawyers or ...?? All those poor Africans taking malarial shots probably start running like crazy now.

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                            • 26mi235
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2005
                              • 24683
                              • Madison, WI

                              #29
                              There is an interesting article on the Home Page: Kenya I think We Have a Problem

                              The Rosa interview is also interesting for those that have not looked at it yet.

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                              • Dave
                                Senior Member
                                • Aug 2006
                                • 5440

                                #30
                                Originally posted by 26mi235 View Post
                                There is an interesting article on the Home Page: Kenya I think We Have a Problem



                                The Rosa interview is also interesting for those that have not looked at it yet.
                                Very interesting. It certainly casts a lot of doubt on Kenyan distance performance.

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