Athletics Doping regulations are just not fair at all

drenkrom

Whenever you deal with national teams, patriotism comes in and sound judgement goes out. At least in cycling, trade teams with riders from different nationalities spread the irreflexive insanity. Every country's commentators and federations will tend to side with that country's sullied heroes. Except for Canada. We got stung too bad with Ben Johnson. Actually, our only other huge doping story was the snowboarder with pot in his bloodstream. Hardly performance-enhancing...

Noodley

Looks like the meedya are getting interested in this. A few old Olympians being interviewed, Daley saying she should go to the Olympics as she has been punished enough for being silly, and Redgrave saying she should not.

And some old wifie fae Devon saying she should go, and it's not just because we need all the good athletes we can

Langenberg

I have sent a somewhat shirty email to the BBC as the doping problem in athletics is being completely ignored. Colin Jackson and Michael Johnson droning on about proven doping cheats such as Carl Lewis really gets on my nerves... and it seems that two of the current 100m sprinters run faster than a whole series of doping implicated runners.

Only comment from BBC commentators: The track is 'fast' (yeah right) and three men in the 100m ran below 10sec which 'is as it should be for a major championship'... without even wondering how much of the ability to go under 10sec is drug induced. All that aggressive behaviour displayed by runners does make you wonder.

flattythehurdler

Doesn't make me wonder at all. They are all doped up to the eyes.

Noodley

I am not wanting to single out individuals (albeit I singled out CO as she was the athlete who was being "excused"), all I want is a level playing field. The BBC are not providing any kind of analysis, nor are most other media sources.

skavanagh.bikeradar

Indeed, which is odd because until recently athletics has as bad a reputation as cycling in this regard especially with the HUGE DOPING SCANDAL known as 'Balco'. Nobody ever mentions it though. Weird. But the BBC hasn't got much in it's sporting locker these days in terms of live events of huge audience interest so a potential gold medalist at the Olympics is not something they are going to wee on is it? If she was Russian or Greek or Chinese I bet we'd be hearing a different story though.

The attitude of Christine O's apologists is disheartening though all the more so for them having the luxury of the BBC to use as a platform.

Booo! Hisss! Is anyone actually watching the athletics though? I would've been interested at one time but haven't watched a single minute of it.

iainf72

Jeremy Whittle on this stuff - It's a good article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 354493.ece

Kléber

Sports journalism is just punditry, it's not Pulitzer-prize winning stuff, or balanced analysis, it's Iain Wright plus a few pints celebrating their friends.

It explains why the cycling media is so close to the riders and struggles to condemn the cheats. It explains why football pundits can't condemn the swearing and diving. And now it explains the rapture at a serial escapee's win in Osaka.

bigdawg

iainf72 wrote:

Jeremy Whittle on this stuff - It's a good article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 354493.ece

I need to lie down I just agreed with something pat mcquaid said...