Rita Jeptoo tests positive before Chicago!

[bennyg]

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.

[Gabriella2]

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.

[Pego]

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.

[gh]

wow….. backyard medicine at work?

[El Toro]

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.

http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2011/2011.4/epo_against_celebral_malaria/

[Bob Duncan]

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!

[spammer]

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/2014/11/news/rita-jeptoos-agent-federico-rosa_117410

[Tuariki]

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

[shivfan]

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.

[Gabriella2]

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.

[beebee]

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.

[gh]

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.

[lonewolf]

"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.

[Gabriella2]

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?

[norunner]

The phrasing is awkward...the going after someone suggests someone gave her a substance (I hate that as an excuse...clearly no one grows the stuff - it's still a choice to take it) but the second part is suggesting she didn't dope - which I assume he means 'didn't dope knowingly' but it's not quite an admission

That's a strange way of reading the statement. Convincing someone to use PEDs is not even similar so giving someone the PEDs and the "convinced Rita to do this" part is an admission that she did do it, so there can be no suggesting she didn't. The quick confession suggests she did know what she was taking, if someone had given her something and she didn't know what it was she would have asked for the B sample to be tested.