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Exum claims large scale cover-up of doping positives | Cyclingnews.com
By Jeff Jones The former director of the United States Olympic Committee's drug control...
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U.S. Olympic Leaders Accused of Doping
OLYMPICS; Anti-Doping Official Says U.S. Covered Up (Published 2003)
World Anti-Doping Agency chairman *** Pound says United States Olympic Committee covered up drug use by athletes, allowing athletes like Carl Lewis to compete after testing positive for banned substances (M)
Lewis: 'Who cares I failed drug test?'
April 24: Carl Lewis has broken his silence on allegations that he was the beneficiary of a drugs cover-up claiming he was just one of "hundreds" of American athletes allowed to escape bans.
Lewis tested positive for drugs, claims former team-mate
Sprinter Carl Lewis was allowed to compete in the 1988 Olympics despite testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs…
Carl Lewis's positive test covered up
Meanwhile Norway’s Karsten Warholm has just obliterated his own world record in the 400 metres hurdles by 0.76 seconds 
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The new world record stands at an astonishing 45.94.
New new carbon-technology shoes or something else? I remember when we all oohed and aahed when Edwin Moses was running 47 seconds!
.The new world record stands at an astonishing 45.94.
New new carbon-technology shoes or something else? I remember when we all oohed and aahed when Edwin Moses was running 47 seconds!
And the fact that the top 3 all went under Kevin Young's old record that had stood for 30 years means there's probably been a quantum leap in something here. Either the spikes or some new PED's.Meanwhile Norway’s Karsten Warholm has just obliterated his own world record in the 400 metres hurdles by 0.76 seconds
The new world record stands at an astonishing 45.94.
New new carbon-technology shoes or something else? I remember when we all oohed and aahed when Edwin Moses was running 47 seconds!
The Brazilian guy that finished 3rd has lowered his PB from 48.28s to 46.72s just in 2021 alone, and he's only 21. At this rate he will soon also threaten sub-46.
Crazy race.
Am not going to take the troll bait, but while you can criticize the US government for almost anything under the sun, including human rights abuses, spying on friends and enemies, starting gratuitous wars etc, it does not get involved in sports at either the pro or amateur level. The USOC is ridiculously underfunded compared with many other countries' efforts.
Vladimir V. has checked in, wants to make sure you have hit your quota of posts today.
Edit: He just got back to me, says "dosvedanya, Bullsfan."
I am going to call BS on this one, actually I would bet quite a large amount there was a state doping program when there were games in US, we can start with 1984 LA games
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Oh man, like watching MSNBC; I thought I was safe here. MUST NOT GO against our propaganda if you do you are Vladimir the russian
The 400m hurdles was absolutely nuclear lmao. Will be interesting to see how fast the 400 flat goes.
I don't really get the state sponsored doping fuss. You don't need to be state sponsored if the mighty gods of capitalism fund your training camps and programs. Everyone who visits this forum should know the end result is the same.
I don't really get the state sponsored doping fuss. You don't need to be state sponsored if the mighty gods of capitalism fund your training camps and programs. Everyone who visits this forum should know the end result is the same.
State sponsored doping sounds more sinister. I used the term myself in 2012. It's more controversial for a government to be implicated in the bastardisation of sport than it is for a capitalist company that everybody accepts is ruthless and cutthroat.
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She has elevated natural testosterone levels. Wasn't allowed to compete in theWomen's 200m Final - barely 18 years old finished 2nd with 21.81
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Why are you so certain? At the 1984 games the Soviet Union and East Germany state sponsored doping machines didn’t compete. America is obsessed with Baseball, American Football and Basketball. The Olympics is big but a once every 4 years side show.
Gardiner ran close to 44 and he looked like he had a couple gears left to shift into. James and Zambrano already went under 44 in the semi. The depth of quality in this final is really something even without van Niekerk. I would love to see someone break 43. A feat a lot more likely after the hurdles.
She has a very bizarre way of running the 200m. Her kick in the last 50m is crazy. It is my understanding that you can compete in the 100m and 200m, but not the 400, 800, or 1500m. She was a big medal favorite for the 400m before she had to withdraw due to the testosterone rule.
Yes that's the rule and it makes no sense.
Either she can run every distance or none of them.
The explanation I understood was that the parameters were set based on them having enough data to make a conclusion re: the 400, 800, and 1500, but not enough data to include the 100 & 200 (yet). But I’m still trying to find a good source on that. Of course, we can surmise from the E. German medical studies about how well girls responded (performance wise) to large dollops of T, that a large amount of additional T will assist performance in virtually every event. Though I don’t know that there have been substantial studies on whether a naturally (endogenous?) high T level in women does the same for performance as T introduced to the system?
That is pretty clearly true. If you want to know how valuable testosterone is in the 800m and 1500m, look how long the WRs from the 80s stood. The women's 800m record from 1983 is almost untouchable. Of the top 10 times ever run, only 3 are post 2000 and one of those is from Semenya. Only 5 of the top 20 are post 2000 if you go further. The 1500m WR from 1980 stood until 2015 (if you exclude a pretty obviously doped to the gills Chinese runner). ETA. Should've mentioned that the 400m world record dates back to 1985 too.
Waiting for Bullsfan to claim the Eastern bloc women of that era were not doped with testosterone.
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Marita Koch’s WR in the 400 may be equally unassailable. And FloJo’s 100 & 200 WRs are also from the 80s.
To this day (or at least last I heard) Kratochvilova still maintains she never doped, her success was due to hard training and high Vitamin B-12 doses. If she would at least allow for the possibility that she had been unknowingly doped by her coaches (like other Eastern Bloc athletes back then) I would be much more forgiving. But she's demonstrated such pigheadedness that to me she is just a sad joke.
Then:
Now (obviously much older, but at least here she looks like a woman):
Good points. I had forgotten about the 400m. Considering how many records are virtually untouchable, I wonder why the 400m hurdle record is not. Did they run 300m hurdles for the women back then? Or a different hurdle height, so they could have a pretext to sweep the old records under the rug?
Yikes. A picture is worth a thousand words.To this day (or at least last I heard) Kratochvilova still maintains she never doped, her success was due to hard training and high Vitamin B-12 doses. If she would at least allow for the possibility that she had been unknowingly doped by her coaches (like other Eastern Bloc athletes back then) I would be much more forgiving. But she's demonstrated such pigheadedness that to me she is just a sad joke.
Then:
Now (obviously much older, but at least here she looks like a woman):
I think at least in part it's because the hurdles make it much more technically and the technique and training of technique has indeed improved. The height has stayed the same for a long time.
To this day (or at least last I heard) Kratochvilova still maintains she never doped, her success was due to hard training and high Vitamin B-12 doses. If she would at least allow for the possibility that she had been unknowingly doped by her coaches (like other Eastern Bloc athletes back then) I would be much more forgiving. But she's demonstrated such pigheadedness that to me she is just a sad joke.
Then:
Now (obviously much older, but at least here she looks like a woman):
To be fair I don't think letting her hair grow and dyeing it would have been impossible for her in the 80s just because of PED usage. Also it's not weird that she doesn't have the same amount of muscle mass now. Not that I believe she wasn't fully doped at the time, cause she obviously was.
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