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Doping In Athletics

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In the NCAA Championships, USC training partners Michael Norman and Rai Benjamin showed how it is done. First Norman runs a 43.61 in the 400, then Benjamin a 47.02(!) in the 400 hurdles.

Must have been remarkable atmospheric conditions in the long sprints.
 
Spain is once again the host country for a doping ring:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1066601/spanish-police-arrest-six-athletes-involved

The doping organization was separated into two groups, with a Moroccan branch & an Ethiopian branch. The report indicates that Testosterone, Growth Hormone, Insulin and "elements for the practice of autotransfusions" were confiscated. 

Imagine that....Morrocan & Ethiopian athletes involved in a doping ring. Lol.
 
Nomad said:
Spain is once again the host country for a doping ring:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1066601/spanish-police-arrest-six-athletes-involved

The doping organization was separated into two groups, with a Moroccan branch & an Ethiopian branch. The report indicates that Testosterone, Growth Hormone, Insulin and "elements for the practice of autotransfusions" were confiscated. 

Imagine that....Morrocan & Ethiopian athletes involved in a doping ring. Lol.

Naturally as doping is illegal in Spain. You won’t see this in the U.K. as it’s legal to dope. Dr. Bonar and all that.
 
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alternator said:
In the NCAA Championships, USC training partners Michael Norman and Rai Benjamin showed how it is done. First Norman runs a 43.61 in the 400, then Benjamin a 47.02(!) in the 400 hurdles.

Must have been remarkable atmospheric conditions in the long sprints.

and Samba just ran a 46.98 (taking .43 off his PB), shame there wasn't a major championships this year to see them going at it.
 
Beatrice Chepkoech. 8:44.32 in women's steeplechase. WR by 8 seconds over Ruth Jebet's previous record. At 27 years old, she is now about 14 seconds faster than the nearest competitor that has not been popped for EPO (Chespol's 8:58).

Her running reminded me of Ayana's 10000 meter world record.
 
Ha, Dina Asher Smith has exactly the sort of past history and development the clinic craves when discussing cyclists. She ran sub 10.99 for the 100m in 2015 and 22.07 for the 200m, and her personal best is still only 10.85/21.89. She was a world class junior winning medals at both 100/200 at world and European champs. Her 100m time is 60th on the all time list and her 200m time is 148th. Marion Jones my arse.
 
Jakob Ingebrigtsen the 17 year old ran a 1500m of 3:52.28 on 26 May, which was the second-fastest ever by a 17 year old (only a now-banned doper had gone faster). Then barely two month later he ran 3:31:18, shaving off a whopping 22sec off his time.

Then over the weekend he completed a 1500m/5000m double at the European Champs..and wait for it, he did it on consecutive days.

What is this kid on?
 
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QuickZulu said:
Jakob Ingebrigtsen the 17 year old ran a 1500m of 3:52.28 on 26 May, which was the second-fastest ever by a 17 year old (only a now-banned doper had gone faster). Then barely two month later he ran 3:31:18, shaving off a whopping 22sec off his time.

Then over the weekend he completed a 1500m/5000m double at the European Champs..and wait for it, he did it on consecutive days.

What is this kid on?

At the very least he's on a training plan that is more diligent than your fact checking.

26th May race was a MILE.

https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/norway/jakob-ingebrigtsen-294868
 
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simoni said:
QuickZulu said:
Jakob Ingebrigtsen the 17 year old ran a 1500m of 3:52.28 on 26 May, which was the second-fastest ever by a 17 year old (only a now-banned doper had gone faster). Then barely two month later he ran 3:31:18, shaving off a whopping 22sec off his time.

Then over the weekend he completed a 1500m/5000m double at the European Champs..and wait for it, he did it on consecutive days.

What is this kid on?

At the very least he's on a training plan that is more diligent than your fact checking.

26th May race was a MILE.

https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/norway/jakob-ingebrigtsen-294868

While you are correct ( i thought the same when I saw the OP) that doesn't exactly disqualify the suspicion against the kid.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/24/kipyegon-bett-kenya-epo-tests-positive
Kipyegon Bett, Kenya’s world 800m bronze medal winner, has tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoeitin (EPO).

The Athletics Kenya executive committee member Barnabas Korir said it received notification from the Athletics Integrity Unit on Thursday that the 20-year-old had submitted a positive sample. The AIU handles integrity and doping issues for the International Association of Athletics Federations.

If his positive test is confirmed, Bett, who finished just ahead of Britain’s Kyle Langford to win his medal at the world championships in London last year, will face a ban. He is already provisionally suspended for failing to submit to sample collection on 15 August.

“We had submitted defence for the case of ‘refusing or failing to submit to sample collection’ by Friday’s deadline. But last night, we received another notification about the new case,” Korir said.

“We have kicked off due process, accorded to every athlete as per the rules set by AIU. If the second test confirms the first one, then the athlete will have to face the consequences,” he said.

If his positive test is confirmed, Bett will join a growing list of Kenya athletes to have flouted anti-doping rules. The Milan marathon winner Lucy Kabuu tested positive for morphine earlier this month. Samuel Kalalei, the winner of Athens marathon last November, also tested positive for EPO on 4 June.

The Kenya-born Bahraini runner Ruth Jebet, the 2016 Rio Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion, and the former Olympic and three-times world 1500m champion, Asbel Kiprop, were suspended after their samples tested positive for EPO in February. Kiprop denied wrongdoing.

Other Kenya athletes who failed dope tests are the 2016 Olympic marathon winner Jemima Sumgong and the former Boston City marathon winner Rita Jeptoo.
 
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Russian athletes Tatyana Lebedeva and Maria Abakumova have been stripped of three world track championship medals because of doping.

The Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles doping cases in track and field, says Abakumova has had her javelin results from August 2008-August 2012 erased, stripping her of her world championship bronze from 2009 and gold from 2011.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article217841205.html
 
Did n't even break a sweat! Easy peasy.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/09/eliud-kipchoge-sets-world-record-at-berlin-marathon.html
It is the greatest jump in marathon record times since 1967, but Kipchoge didn’t even look tired at the final stretch.

https://www.dw.com/en/kenyan-eliud-kipchoge-breaks-world-record-at-berlin-marathon/a-45506998
Kipchoge will be rewarded with a total sum of €120,000 ($139,614) for his performance on Sunday, including €50,000 for the world record, €40,000 for coming in first and a €30,000 bonus for keeping his time below two hours and four minutes.
 
Kipchoge has been getting a ton of positive press, including a rather credulous article in the NYT (which should know better) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/sports/eliud-kipchoge-marathon.html

In which we read this quote: Bedford, the London Marathon director, said, “In the eyes of people who know and understand the sport, there is no doubt at all that he is anything other than clean, legitimate and honest.”

Seriously? The guy goes from a 5k specialist (and a very good one) to winning what, 9 marathons in a row and obliterating the record. Plus Kenyan.

Here is Kipchoge's magic formula. Train less hard: But perhaps what is most unusual about Kipchoge, 33, and his diet of monastic extremes is the one thing he does not do: overextend himself in training. He estimates that he seldom pushes himself past 80 percent — 90 percent, tops — of his maximum effort when he circles the track for interval sessions, or when he embarks on 25-mile jogs.
 

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