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YESTERDAY Tonight, runner-up Jakob Ingebrigtsen was apparently only half a second away from setting a European record of 3000 meters. But really, this album should have been his:
- It was created by a scammer.
Right after international athletic experts praised Mohammed Mourhit for being the first after Finnish athletics legend Paavo Nurmi with the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 meter records, this Belgian was revealed as a bluff.
He had used EPO.
But now is the time for our athletic chiefs to take up the demand for the old scam records to be erased. Doubting the current record lists is badly done against Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Hedda Hynne, Karsten Warholm and thousands of others trying to beat results that should never have been approved.
Take a deal with the deceptions
PERHAPS We didn’t quite understand how fast Jakob ran in Rome last night. It wasn’t just because another teenager was a little faster than him in the sprint. You missed a record.
In athletics, the result itself sets the tone. There is no use to the honest if he is never so unfair:
- The result is there anyway and overshadows the performance.
Most people do not understand why.
THEN SMILE; Mohammed Mourhit was world class for a couple of years both on track and on the ground. But then came the explanation why it was so fast. PHOTO: Olivier Hoslet REUTERS.
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HE Nor did the experts at Runners World when they eulogized the new Belgian Mohammed Mourhit in the spring of 2002. He had moved from Morocco and changed nationality to focus even more on running, but he was still training close to the other North African stars in isolation in the mountains around the city of Ifrane.
Norwegian record beaten
There has never been a surprising amount of doping control. Or as Mourhit put it in the interview:
– A runner’s paradise.
IMAGES The thoughts also inspired the Runners World journalist who did not know that Mourhit was already falling for the trap of doping hunters during a surprising test before the World Terrain Championships in May 2002:
– In Morocco, there is a saying that «that what cannot be embraced with the pen, you can achieve with your feet»he wrote, recalling that North Africa, once so famous for its poetry, was now equally famous for all the great runners.
Well; Later, unfortunately, constantly improving doping control has shown that it was not just the feet that did wonders for all the Moroccan and Algerian medium and long distance runners who, since the 80s and 90s, flooded the Middle East and Europe.
Before last year’s World Championships in Athletics, a television documentary by the well-known ARD doping newsroom posed the question: “Morocco, a paradise for sports cheats?” And the critics’ answer was yes.
Baptism scandal surrounding Jakob
ROUND At the turn of the millennium, everything looked a little different and prettier. For Runners World, Mourhit recounted how Olympic champion Said Aouita inspired him to pursue a career in life.
– He always told me that if I continued to train hard, was just as self-sacrificing and behaved well, I would break his records.the new Belgian told Runners World. And so it had been.
Another sunny story.
At least until shortly after the interview was posted. Then Mourhit was revealed, and the case was stuck with a correction from the editors that the results of the best medium and long distance runner in Europe had turned out to be free poetry.
Nobody is scammed anymore
SUCH It is law in poetry, but unfortunately also on the athletic record lists. The proposal to eliminate all records established before 2005; the year the opportunity to try again came, he was turned down by the sport itself three years ago. The old cheats are still protected.
What that means for Jakob Ingebrigtsen can only be seen with a look at the top historical list of the men’s 3,000 meters. This is a distance that is not run in championships, but is used by both the top and the width as a reference for your level.
IS it is therefore a prestigious list and appears in the names. Here, Kenya’s Daniel Komen is at the top with an incredible time of 7,20,67, set in the only two seasons 1996 and 1997 when he suddenly ran away from everything and everyone. He then follows more than two seconds behind 1,500 meter record holder Hicham El Guerrouj, before Ali-Saidi-Sief of Algeria comes in third. Then the main names Haille Gebrselassie, Noureddine Morceli and Kenenisa Bekele, before our new separate acquaintance Mohammad Mourir.
Only eight runners have been faster this distance than Jakob Ingebrigtsen achieved last night. Two of them were later arrested for doping; most of the others ran fast at a time when athletics was reluctant to take too much of its heroes.
ALONE it’s at least as unfair to Jacob Kiplimo; the Ugandan teenager who questioned Jacob in this latest Diamond League tournament in Rome.
Now this special season is almost over, and it’s time for the sport to look at how it can better progress. So just get rid of the old scams.
Because it is not our Athletics heroes this is mostly about, even though they have become so many and so good that it is easier for us to see what sadly no It has happened in a sport that is trying to clean itself up.
An athletics that never manages to deal with the obvious pitfalls, stops in a dark past.
At least before a prodigy like Jakob drops almost seven seconds in the 3000 meters, or Karsten Warholm takes the record of 400 meters hurdles to which he is so close again and again.
But is there any pressure that the sport really believes it’s okay to put on a new generation of more honest athletes?
