Beijing 400M Gold Medalist Suspended 21 Months

[MacRoadie]

Tested positive for a banned substance found in an over-the-counter male enhancement product.

LaShawn Merritt, Olympic Gold Medalist, Suspended 21 Months

 

[Merckx index]

Hope he doesn't go the way of this 400 m gold medalist (won the gold in a relay, but the relay was 400 x 4):

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20101014_Briefly______CITY_REGION.html

 

[jsem94]

So.. does wariner get the gold now?

 

[The Hitch]

So.. does wariner get the gold now?

Doubt it. Gatlin didnt lose his Athens Gold. Just became "disgraced"

But 21 months i make as just enough time for him to miss London 2012, giving Warriner a good chance there.

 

[python]

Doubt it. Gatlin didnt lose his Athens Gold. Just became "disgraced"

But 21 months i make as just enough time for him to miss London 2012, giving Warriner a good chance there.

he would miss london even if he got 1 week ban - ioc ruled life-time exclusion from any olympics if you were officially sanctioned for doping anytime for however long.

 

[The Hitch]

he would miss london even if he got 1 week ban - ioc ruled life-time exclusion from any olympics if you were officially sanctioned for doping anytime for however long.

Not Christine Ohurogu. Britain wanted her in, so she got in.

 

[Kennf1]

So.. does wariner get the gold now?

The positives came a year after the Olympics.

 

[python]

Not Christine Ohurogu. Britain wanted her in, so she got in.

dont know her story but im pretty sure of the ioc rule i posited above.

 

[The Hitch]

dont know her story but im pretty sure of the ioc rule i posited above.

Im not saying your wrong. You are right. But in her case they made an exception (though she didnt fail a test, just missed a lot of them) so im suggesting there is room for exceptions.

 

[bigloco]

Is this going to be the new standard of defense? Pick an excuse humiliating enough that no one would think to suspect you of lying in admittance...

If I'd have tested positive for Clen, I think maybe I'd go with a beastiality defense!

 

[python]

Im not saying your wrong. You are right. But in her case they made an exception (though she didnt fail a test, just missed a lot of them) so im suggesting there is room for exceptions.

sounds like room for corruption. either way, the american runner is sanctioned for actual doping, not missed tests (that are always somewhat less damming). thus he's likely to rest during the olympics unless more ioc corruption lets him in.

 

[scribe]

Is this going to be the new standard of defense? Pick an excuse humiliating enough that no one would think to suspect you of lying in admittance...

If I'd have tested positive for Clen, I think maybe I'd go with a beastiality defense!

Prove it!!!!

..er, ok. Nevermind. I am just gonna let you off with a warning this time.

 

[D Avoid]

He's amazing, no matter how big this story gets , I'll always remember falling around the room laughing at the radio, its gonna be hard on him in the locker room stand up comedy routines, as to whether it is still as a result of cheating, or cross membership of the available facilitatory groups.

 

[For The World]

Ahh Australian journalism at its finest:

http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/american-400-metres-olympic-champion-lashawn-merritt-receives-21-months-ban-despite-claiming-penis-enlargement-product/story-e6frf56c-1225940459088
So many double meanings in the article.

 

[BroDeal]

Bob says natural male enhancement should not be laughed at. Life is better when it is lived large.

 

[osborn99]

Actually, he was suspended in October 2009 which his ban will be from, will be back for the 2011 world champs.

 

[TERMINATOR]

he would miss london even if he got 1 week ban - ioc ruled life-time exclusion from any olympics if you were officially sanctioned for doping anytime for however long.

Incorrect. The IOC rule states that anybody who serves a doping suspension is banned from only the next Olympics. It is not a lifetime ban.

And even in the case of being banned from the next Olympics, one can apply for a waiver by the IOC.

 

[TERMINATOR]

So.. does wariner get the gold now?

No, because he tested positive after the Olympics.

 

[Ferminal]

Why will Millar not get picked for the Olympics then?

At least, that's what they were saying during the Comm Games. I assume that Beijing was his mandatory "one Olympics".

 

[JMBeaushrimp]

So.. does wariner get the gold now?

Nope, his weiner does... It WAS from a 'male enhancement' product, afterall...

 

[JMBeaushrimp]

Is this going to be the new standard of defense? Pick an excuse humiliating enough that no one would think to suspect you of lying in admittance...

If I'd have tested positive for Clen, I think maybe I'd go with a beastiality defense!

Absolutely! I've heard that you can get clen poisoning from porking... uh, pork. That doesn't sound quite right. I betcha the UCI will buy it, though...

 

[python]

Incorrect. The IOC rule states that anybody who serves a doping suspension is banned from only the next Olympics. It is not a lifetime ban.

And even in the case of being banned from the next Olympics, one can apply for a waiver by the IOC.

i looked deeper, we both are right though my previous post was an overstatement. a waiver is a nightmare too requiring the full support of a national fed - not easy and may end up in cas.

an amendment to ioc rule 45 bans anyone with more than 6 months suspension from the next games. but there are further complication imposed by the rule 23.1.2 and stricter regulations from some national olympic bodies (like british) and international federations (like skiing) that produce defacto life-time bans for 1st time offenders.

a further complication is the date and wording of the pre-olympic oath that athletes are required to sign. it can effectively ban them for life from the olympics.

now i understand even better why i've always been skeptical of life-time bans.

 

[Big GMaC]

Millar doesn't go because of the British OC having lifetime exclusions for banned athletes.

But not Christine Ohurogu. Oh no. Because she was going to win.