Lukezic banned?

Dirty athletes I swear.

April 20th? Is that for real. That's too funny.

This won't affect his retirement. Also Whether or not he filed the proper paperwork, he made it quite clear he was retiring. Looks USADA or whomever was just throwing money away trying to test him.

They were on to him!

USADA - Keeping the sport clean.

..."Doin a heckofa job Brownie!

yeah, lets go after the retired guy in san fran on 4/20. good one wada

unreal wrote:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USADA has suspended retired distance runner Chris Lukezic for two years for refusing to take an out-of-competition doping test.

Lukezic's ban started Tuesday. He declined to take the test on April 20, so his results since that date also were thrown out.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says the 26-year-old Lukezic, of San Francisco, didn't file the proper paperwork announcing his retirement before refusing to take the test. The agency says the 2006 U.S. Indoor 1,500-meter champion has properly retired from competition since that date.

USADA announced the ban on Thursday.

probably been smokin pot since his retirement. Hey USATF he's retired... leave him alone.

he don't wanna piss in a cup

The Brojo's will have to remove his name from any 1500m list they use from now on!

unreal wrote:

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USADA has suspended retired distance runner Chris Lukezic for two years for refusing to take an out-of-competition doping test.

Lukezic's ban started Tuesday. He declined to take the test on April 20, so his results since that date also were thrown out.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says the 26-year-old Lukezic, of San Francisco, didn't file the proper paperwork announcing his retirement before refusing to take the test. The agency says the 2006 U.S. Indoor 1,500-meter champion has properly retired from competition since that date.

USADA announced the ban on Thursday.

Does this mean he is now banned from retirement? I guess in that case he is now required to compete.

Hope he's in shape.

I like the fact that he told USADA to eff off on 420 day! :-)

You have to file paperwork to retire?

who does and who does not?

any USATF memeber?

mad....somebody is bored...

Had a friend that the same thing happened to. He was a college coach and a world class thrower. Sent in his paperwork to state his retirement. They lost it in the shuffle. Came to test him and he told them to basically eff off, he was done and not subject to that crap anymore. He is banned from sport and ends up getting fired from his college job because of it. Paperwork was later found and the governing body apologized but it was too little, too late.

Craziness.

David St. Hubbins wrote:

You have to file paperwork to retire?

Yes, otherwise you'd have people switching from "retired", to "coming out of retirement" and back several times a year.

If you officially retire and decide to return to competition, I believe there is some sort of stand down period after announce your intention to return.

David St. Hubbins wrote:

You have to file paperwork to retire?

who does and who does not?

any USATF member?

From the USADA guidelines:

Any Athlete who has ever been enrolled in a No Advance Notice testing program, Registered Testing Pool or other Out-of-Competition testing program of an International Federation (“IF”), the USOC or the United States Anti-Doping Agency (“USADA”) or who has represented the United States, the USOC or any NGB at any world championship, Paralympic Games or Olympic Games who wishes to retire, notifies the appropriate entities in writing of this intent and is removed from the No Advance Notice testing program(s) . . .

I don't know whether Lukezic failed to file the paperwork or if it got lost in the shuffle, but the testers are just playing by the rules.

Lukezic is a convicted drug cheat and his career is now forever tarnished.

On a side note, I got a call from my old boss from a place that I quit who said I couldn't come back to work there.

long sox wrote:

David St. Hubbins wrote:

You have to file paperwork to retire?

Yes, otherwise you'd have people switching from "retired", to "coming out of retirement" and back several times a year.

If you officially retire and decide to return to competition, I believe there is some sort of stand down period after announce your intention to return.

Doesn't it only make sense that you have to file paperwork for retirment as long sox says? If not you could use a fake retirement to dodge drug testing. It may seem silly to suspend a retired athlete but the policy makes perfect sense and must be followed.

If he stays retired they should remove the ban though just so it isn't on his record in the future. Sorta like a probation period.

road rashed wrote:

yeah, lets go after the retired guy in san fran on 4/20. good one wada

I'm not sure which part of "random out-of-competition testing" you don't understand.

Linford Christie was caught while in retirement

Does this mean Webb is dirty too?

You guys want it both ways...you want to nab drug cheats, but then you rail against the policies that are put in place to catch them.

This is actually a good policy. As mentioned in another post, the problem is that some athletes can declare that they retire, do drugs for a year and then come out of retirement to beat the world. By making the retired athlete file papers to retire, it ensures that these games don't happen.

If you've ever been tested, you know how much of a bother it is. But you can't have a clean sport without a strong drug testing system. The system has to look for loopholes such as the retirement trick and develop policies to make sure that athletes don't use these to escape a test.

This is by no means implying that the athlete in question was guilty. That is irrelevant.

relevant question wrote:

Does this mean Webb is dirty too?

In the off chance that you're serious, according to the USADA website Webb has been tested twice so far this year and four times in each of the previous two years. Since he hasn't competed in the US, I presume both tests this year were out-of-competition tests like the one Lukezic was asked to take. You can see individual test history here: