Greg Allen
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481 appearances
34 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 17 Aug
Greg Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Berlin's a fast course like London.
Between Berlin and London,
He was out of competition dope tested 25 times in a project funded by Adidas to the tune of $50,000 or thereabouts.
We're led to believe.
And there weren't that many dope tests.
And in the course of that, that is to prove something, an attempt to prove that this was a clean attempt at a world record.
Because Kenyan athletes have, you know, been...
dope tested positive more than 300 times in the last 10 years.
That's how many cases there have been.
And there is a cloud over the sport.
There is a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation, a document, a proper Project Kenya document.
And they're trying to show that this is not one of those performances that you raise your eyebrows over and just say, ah, look, it's obvious that they're all taking it.
They're trying to do their best to...
for want of a better way of putting it, legitimize all of these performances now.
And I think the Super Shoes is the biggest element of it.
And if you look at Kelvin Kipton's world record from three years ago, about a minute slower, while it is a big improvement on it, it's not an unbelievable improvement on it.
And I do think that now that barrier of two hours has been broken.
Yomif Kijelke, who broke the two-hour barrier in finishing second in the race,
He's never run a marathon over two hours, you know, which is an extraordinary thing to say.
He's the only athlete in the world who can say that I've run one marathon and I've broken two hours.
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