Oh very informative, never knew that, have always assumed they test an athlete after a race for doping.

The funny thing Vivian is now faster than dibaba and she has never won a race dibaba was in You have to feel for her she has been chasing dibaba for so long and now enters ayana.@Alba is right that Ayana WR is subject to some serious debate she did not even strain considering the number of people she lapped she could have even gone faster

Now that Vivian has won....congrats to her for opening the medal...GAL power right there, true leader for the olympic team.As for Omonde making apologies for Shujaa's performance he ought to know he owes none to us mafans.Those in Kenya 7's team are the real courage of what it means to fight for a vision eregardless of the pitfalls,potholes and lack of support from a government that is so handsomely awarded with Kenyan taxes...so no matter how they perfromaed they deserve our accolades,words of encouragement and cheers!....but pliss lets also PRAY for them that all will be well given the games they have so far chosen to wash!!!..tuombe Zika isifike254!

Its not looking too good for KE in 10K

Well what to say about Ayana, i will be surprised if she doped - i think she just had too much in the tank for the rest, i feel for Vivian Cheruiyot.

On the 7's well am not surprised because i don't think they were mentally prepared for the olympics. Until Benja and Co attend technical classes like for 6 months on coaching we will always have this erratic results. In this case Kenyans tried to fall back on their natural athletisism instead of what they had been training and when that happens your goose is cooked. But it was clear they were not prepared.

I have been fortunate to visit the Nike Oregon project where Mo trains and the facilities are a sight to behold and i quickly realised it will take a monumental effort to defeat MO. To put it into context Mo came last in 2008 and 4 years later won gold - so what happened? The Oregon project has added technical bits to long distance training. i.e. Mo has a small oxygen chamber that only fits his head that he sleeps in - to recreate the high altitude in Iten and Addis. Half of his training is done in an underwater treadmill to create strength and speed (hence the kick) The advantage he has over the rest is so huge hence why they can never have a sniff at him. My question is why can't Tanui and the rest move to Oregon?

For me by far the most exciting has been the swimming, am a big fan of the American teenage sensation Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin has been below par however in the US they have this swimming centres littered round the country and the focus is and always will be technique. It was fascinating to see - they are not interested in times but from the blocks, the angle of entry in the water, optimum amount of dolphin kicks, the turn simply amazing, maen we have a long way and we may have natural athletes but we stand no match with the technical nature of the sport. Same case with the British in Rowing (these are Cambridge/Oxford boys and both in Cambridge and Oxford they have rowing labs that have perfected the art of rowing.

I thought Jemima Sum gong just won it for us

IAAF wants all countries to create an off-season dope testing program which is why they declared Kenya non compliant.

With regard to why off season doping is the most effective, see the words of Clemens Prokop, the chair of the German Federation



“The time period immediately preceding the Olympic Games is only of secondary relevance when trying to benefit from doping effects.”

The biggest performance-enhancing effects from doping are achieved during “training peaks,” which for the Rio Games would have been in the fall of 2015 and this spring.

Any tests carried out between now and the games are “inept” and will “never restore the level playing field in athletics,“’ Prokop said.


IAAF performs some out of competition testing on the top athletes. See this link

Very good run by Wayde 400m...He broke that ancient world record

And Bolt is still the undisputed 100M champ

If you want to make a calculated guess on whether a person is doping, look at his progression.
Most natural runners show their true potential in their late teens or early 20s and typically peak in their mid 20s whereafter they start to decline.

Aside from the fact that his coach was nabbed with viles of EPO, an unnatural progression is what makes Mo Farah so suspicious.

This chap was a bum in his mid 20s. At the 2006 Commonwealth games he was so useless that he was almost overlapped by Augustin Choge who was only 19 at the time.

Now 10 years later Mo Farah is 33 and running much faster than he did when he was 23. Yet he is at an age when he should be in decline. It is feats like these that leave you jaded about the sport.