Doping in Athletics...
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Brilliant (for us). No longer will cycling be tarred as the dirty sport, I hope.
In all seriousness, the OC have never dealt with doping in athletics. I think they stood back with quiet pleasure mixed with fear when the Festina affair broke. Can you imagine dope testing happening without warning in some far eastern country where female power lifters weighing 47kg's are clean and jerking over 115kg's ?
In all seriousness, the OC have never dealt with doping in athletics. I think they stood back with quiet pleasure mixed with fear when the Festina affair broke. Can you imagine dope testing happening without warning in some far eastern country where female power lifters weighing 47kg's are clean and jerking over 115kg's ?
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The rest of the sporting world is in denial.
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Cycling was the canary in the mine and all the other sports refused to listen.
The logistics of doping in cycling, combined with the high number of days in competition make being caught much more likely.
Bit bleeding late aint it..... He has sat at the top table of the IAAF since 2007. Ever the politician our Seb get your response in first before the awkward questions.
Questions like why have you ignored it for the last 6 or 7 years.........
I forget the American sprinters name, he has been banned twice for heaven sakes and is now running faster than ever.
I believe there is a case for if caught banned for life!
When you can have a cup of tea at a hotel and then take positive sample because of the blend of herbs in the the you know you have gone too far.
Everyone knows HGH etc offer performance gains together with a whole host of others but its at the point where a million and one things will put you in the "drug user" category and that is IMO wrong.
I have also read where some people with a higher than normal blood regeneration have failed tests but have actually been clean.
Its a complete minefield to me.
Cycling has always been the "bad boy" because there has always been performance enhancers involved and despite the UCI's complicity it has done its washing in public. Where the biggest cover up was made was when Armstrong was involved and he had various people in his pocket. The reason I refer to this is I'm drawing a parallel (perhaps wrongly) on why this cover up in athletics has taken place.
Either way I hope the whole rotten lot comes down and the right people end up with egg on their face.
There will always be people who will endevour to cheat.
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Freely admitted blood doping and nobody raised an eyebrow.
That's normal for Eastern European women isn't it
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Let's ask Sean.
Too much to gain and not enough to lose. When you can resume a career after a 2 or 4 year ban and still enjoy the advantages in muscle mass that steroids offer, where (apart from morally) is the incentive for an 18 - 24 year old NOT to dope? Banned at 20, competing again at 22/24? Joke.
Couple that with the fact that this latest debacle surrounds inaction when the miscreants HAD been caught and I can't see much light at the end of the tunnel.
Twice banned Justin Gatlin will, in all likelihood, be running in the World 100m final in a couple of weeks. TWICE banned and still allowed to compete in one of the most prestigious events in world sport - where's the disincentive?
I don't buy the "contaminated supplements" defence either. If the sport can afford the training facilities, coaches, world wide travel and prize money, it can afford to have correctly tested and certified supplements. Buying supplements from a source whereby they can become contaminated should be enough to set alarm bells ringing.
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Armstrong taught us it was easy to cheat and get away with it
"It did, though, "condemn in the strongest possible terms the distribution, sharing, and publication of private and confidential medical data that was obtained from the IAAF without consent.""
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33777915
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Well not really. He tested positive in the '99 Tour and tested positive retrospectively, and his teammates ratted him out, which is why we know he did cheat.
As far as I can see, 1/3 of these athletes are cheating & getting away with it, so they're obviously doing a better job than Armstrong has!
Or that they are being tested far less and far less randomly without warning than the pro cyclist counterpart?
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Instead of the cheats.
He must really want that new job.
Another Sepp Blatter in the making.
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Gatlin's 8 year ban for his 2nd failure in 2005/2006 was reduced by Travis Tygart himself to 4 years in exchange for him dishing the dirt on his suppliers. Presumably he has found a new, better one!
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In no way has Armstrong "got away with it", in your words, and there are lots of athletes out there who are obviously still competing despite breaking the rules by doping - to me that is 'getting away with it'.
It is different There's no other way to interpret it.
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As people have pointed out. Where is the incentive to stay clean?
Just in time, then?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33948924
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