Doping In Athletics

[luckyboy]

Another former RUSADA director dies of an apparent heart attack at 52...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/europe/nikita-kamayev-ex-head-of-russian-antidoping-agency-dies.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow

 

[coinneach]

I see Flo-Jo is still seen as marketable, despite what we know of her now

 

[coinneach]

I see Flo-Jo is still seen as marketable, despite what we know of her now

This is all the more funny when you see the other image and project this company also uses

 

[armchairclimber]

Dibaba just broke the indoor mile record by 4 seconds..

http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/jama-aden-interview-coaching-genzebe-dibaba-38335/

This as well as Souleiman's new 1000m world record.

 

[gooner]

Re:

Another former RUSADA director dies of an apparent heart attack at 52...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/europe/nikita-kamayev-ex-head-of-russian-antidoping-agency-dies.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow

Worrying indeed.

All the more so after what David Walsh has said.

 

[BullsFan22]

Re: Re:

Another former RUSADA director dies of an apparent heart attack at 52...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/europe/nikita-kamayev-ex-head-of-russian-antidoping-agency-dies.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow

Worrying indeed.

All the more so after what David Walsh has said.

What did the champion of 'clean sport' say?

 

[The Carrot]

Saw an excerpt on the news about the Glasgow indoor Grand Prix and the spectator seats looked pretty full. This in spite of the very recent revelations about athletics being a cesspool. If this can't dissuade people from parting with their 'hard-earned' to watch this circus, nothing can. Therein lies the problem, the fans could change things overnight by voting with their feet, but they don't and, it would seem, never will.

 

[The Carrot]

http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10184396/paula-radcliffe-elected-to-role-with-iaaf-athletes-commission

words fail me

 

[thehog]

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http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10184396/paula-radcliffe-elected-to-role-with-iaaf-athletes-commission

words fail me

That is truly awesome. Sport is in safe hands with Coe & Radcliffe. I feel very warm and safe.

 

[sniper]

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http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10184396/paula-radcliffe-elected-to-role-with-iaaf-athletes-commission

words fail me

words seem to fail the entire clean athlete community.
words seem to have failed them for years.
not a sound of discontentment.
how large is that community in the first place?

 

[Maxiton]

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I see Flo-Jo is still seen as marketable, despite what we know of her now

Particularly grotesque, given that her premature demise might very well have been tied to "what we know of her". In which case the headline should read

Death, for a moment of victory

words seem to fail the entire clean athlete community.
words seem to have failed them for years.
not a sound of discontentment.
how large is that community in the first place?

Quite large, but as they're all in primary and secondary schools their mothers won't let them meet the press.

PS. Oh, and by the way, that illustration looks like a really poorly rendered painting, as you may have noticed, but it actually purports to be a photograph.

 

[Cake]

Re:

Saw an excerpt on the news about the Glasgow indoor Grand Prix and the spectator seats looked pretty full. This in spite of the very recent revelations about athletics being a cesspool. If this can't dissuade people from parting with their 'hard-earned' to watch this circus, nothing can. Therein lies the problem, the fans could change things overnight by voting with their feet, but they don't and, it would seem, never will.

Isn't this the problem with spectators at all pro sports, not just athletics? Soccer is "a cesspit" in terms of the behaviour of the players, fans being ripped off for tickets etc, but has there been any drop off in spectator numbers?

It will only change for the better when fans (of any sport) withdraw their custom & money

 

[blackcat]

Re: Re:

Saw an excerpt on the news about the Glasgow indoor Grand Prix and the spectator seats looked pretty full. This in spite of the very recent revelations about athletics being a cesspool. If this can't dissuade people from parting with their 'hard-earned' to watch this circus, nothing can. Therein lies the problem, the fans could change things overnight by voting with their feet, but they don't and, it would seem, never will.

Isn't this the problem with spectators at all pro sports, not just athletics? Soccer is "a cesspit" in terms of the behaviour of the players, fans being ripped off for tickets etc, but has there been any drop off in spectator numbers?

It will only change for the better when fans (of any sport) withdraw their custom & money

fans enable it, and fans ignorance allows it, and the gullibility of the stupid

 

[thehog]

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http://www.skysports.com/more-sports/athletics/news/29175/10184396/paula-radcliffe-elected-to-role-with-iaaf-athletes-commission

words fail me

words seem to fail the entire clean athlete community.
words seem to have failed them for years.
not a sound of discontentment.
how large is that community in the first place?

The clean test is if English is your first language.

 

[sniper]

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The clean test is if English is your first language.

Compare this story to how the Spanish authorities took down Marta Dominguez.

We had our fun mocking Spain, but the current practices in the UK nicely put that in perspective.

 

[The Hitch]

Spain may have taken down Marta, but I don't take any action against a C grade athlete seriously. For me the test is if a country is willing to take down an actual star. Marta wasn't particularly big in Spain.

 

[oldcrank]

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The clean test is if English is your first language.

Compare this story to how the Spanish authorities took down Marta Dominguez.

We had our fun mocking Spain, but the current practices in the UK nicely put that in perspective.

The truth of the matter is, my friend, that the
Real Federacion Espanola de Atletismo (RFEA)
cleared Marta but the IAAF and WADA appealed
that decision via the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

 

[thehog]

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...
The clean test is if English is your first language.

Compare this story to how the Spanish authorities took down Marta Dominguez.

We had our fun mocking Spain, but the current practices in the UK nicely put that in perspective.

That's not so much the point...

It's nepotism of the highest order. Especially when there's still this unanswered question with regards to Radcliffe's blood values along with rather poor sign writing skills.

 

[thehog]

Ethiopia set for doping bans as drug testers turn focus on distance-dominating nation
Authorities are set to announce positive drugs tests of Ethiopian athletes
Attention centred on Russia and Kenya but is now set to move to Ethiopia
The news could cause British athletes to rethink their training plans in future
Ethiopia regularly dominates distance running at major championships

The glare of the doping police has switched to Ethiopia and the authorities are set to announce a number of positive drugs tests among the country's top athletes in the coming weeks.

Ethiopia has so far escaped widespread doping scandals as attention has instead centred on Russia and, more recently, Kenya.

But Sportsmail can reveal that intelligence has led drug testers to focus their attention on numerous athletes from Ethiopia, the east African country which regularly dominates the distance running events at major championships.

Any evidence of widespread doping there could cause British athletes to rethink their training plans in future so they are as distanced as possible from any damaging scandal.

Mo Farah was training at a high-altitude camp in the country until earlier this month alongside the newly crowned British 1500m indoor champion Charlie Grice.

At the World Championships in Beijing last year, Ethiopia won eight medals in distance-running disciplines, although it is not known if any of the winners are implicated here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3468428/Ethiopia-set-doping-bans-drug-testers-turn-focus-distance-dominating-nation.html

Lol!

 

[The Hitch]

Unfortunately in the British press there's patronizing stories like that every week.

 

[Benotti69]

Good to see what most have known, that other sports are just as big cesspits as cycling. IAAF has not learned from cycling, stupid greedy men think they can sweep it under the carpet and do they even care? I doubt it. I hope Diack throws everyone under the bus.

 

[sniper]

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Good to see what most have known, that other sports are just as big cesspits as cycling. IAAF has not learned from cycling, stupid greedy men think they can sweep it under the carpet and do they even care? I doubt it. I hope Diack throws everyone under the bus.

That is, if IAAF and IOC let anyone near him. He'll know that if he sings in front of some 'independent' IAAF/IOC investigatory body, they'll quickly put the kibosh on him.
I'd reckon only a criminal justice agency like the FBI might be able to get this guy to sing.

 

[wansteadimp]

Re: Re:

Good to see what most have known, that other sports are just as big cesspits as cycling. IAAF has not learned from cycling, stupid greedy men think they can sweep it under the carpet and do they even care? I doubt it. I hope Diack throws everyone under the bus.

That is, if IAAF and IOC let anyone near him. He'll know that if he sings in front of some 'independent' IAAF/IOC investigatory body, they'll quickly put the kibosh on him.
I'd reckon only a criminal justice agency like the FBI might be able to get this guy to sing.

That's if a massive heart attack from an undiagnosed condition doesn't first.

 

[thehog]

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Unfortunately in the British press there's patronizing stories like that every week.

I feel sorry for Mo. His training camps appear to transact those doping hotbeds of Kenya and Ethopia. I just hope his good name is not smeared. What more can he do to prove he's clean?

 

[Benotti69]

Re: Re:

Good to see what most have known, that other sports are just as big cesspits as cycling. IAAF has not learned from cycling, stupid greedy men think they can sweep it under the carpet and do they even care? I doubt it. I hope Diack throws everyone under the bus.

That is, if IAAF and IOC let anyone near him. He'll know that if he sings in front of some 'independent' IAAF/IOC investigatory body, they'll quickly put the kibosh on him.
I'd reckon only a criminal justice agency like the FBI might be able to get this guy to sing.

That's if a massive heart attack from an undiagnosed condition doesn't first.

Very possible. Taking bribes from Russians is not good for ones health.