About time! She was the world shot put champion way back in 2005 and has been competitive pretty much every year since. Proves you don't have to be inconsistent to be a doper. Can't believe the idiots that defended her, this one was more obvious than Jeter.
How many more positives will we see over the next few weeks. In some ways I hope there are a lot because it will send the biggest message to all future olympians that this is not going to be tolerated. But then I feel like it will turn into the Tour Da France and lose all credibility for being a clean sport. But some of the more obvious dopers like Ostapchuk need to get caught!
HAH!
Line 'em up... Who's next?
I like the women's throws because it's fun to guess who's doping just purely based on their screams alone. From memory, all the Chinese sounded normal, Valerie Adams sounded normal (for a Tongan), and even the Russian third placer sounded and LOOKED normal (that's a new one).
The other Belarussian, other Russian and the Chilean all had that horrible throaty, manly scream. In fact Ostapchuk didn't scream at all, guess she was smart enough to hide it.
Another obvious doper is the hammer winner Lysenko. She's tested positive before and she looks like she's been repeatedly slapped in the face with a cheese grater, her acne is that bad. Also has the scream factor.
Also check this out:
Read the part right at the end: "Indeed, the next Olympic doping scandal could be from the 2004 Athens Games instead. Next week the IOC could announce up to five new disciplinary cases based on retested samples."
Big deal. They catch dopers every day at the Olympics. But they only reveal a few of them.
Annoying that they had completed the entire process, including appeals and re-testing, prior to the closing ceremony but sat on the information until after the closing ceremony. Denying the rightful medal winners the right to a proper medal ceremony. The marathon medal winners got to have their presentation during the ceremony, it would have been no more trouble to wheel in the pie eating champions and have their ceremony again. Must feel really satisfying to receive your medal in the post.
So it sounds like they have a quick turnaround on the testing - the W SP was August 6. The M 1500 was August 7 and the W 1500 was August 10.
So maybe tomorrow Mak will be gone.
Great news...another sacrificial lamb.
No Jamaicans, no Americans, no Kenyans, no Ethiopians.
Of course. Ostapchuk is a cheater...her PB was ridiculous in that final.
Oh wait...you had another massive PB's from people performing below the average in the DL meets!!!
I think they should take a look at 1500m finalists, for example.
...IAAF and IOC wouldn't ever give up the 'golden goose' Bolt & the entire Jamaican squad.
If they did, there would have no interest in the Games/Track & Field.
They simply are following what MLB did with McGuire & Sosa.
I guess everyone is hung over from the closing ceremonies, as I am surprised there isn't more chatter about this. I would think the LetsRun crowd would be all over this. But then, its a thrower and not a runner...
cowboybob wrote:
I guess everyone is hung over from the closing ceremonies, as I am surprised there isn't more chatter about this. I would think the LetsRun crowd would be all over this. But then, its a thrower and not a runner...
well when the brojos wake up and get it on page 1 it will get some attention. But a female former soviet union thrower testing positive? really? I feel good for Adams, but the female throws are not credible any more. Sucks.
nathan jessup wrote:
They simply are following what MLB did with McGuire & Sosa.
In fairness, however, MLB had no policy in place when McGuire and Sosa were battling.
Ostapchuk was doping?
No!
She was one of the egregious violators, along with Shiwen and Makhloufi.
So she was tested the day before the final and the day after. What was it, a stimulant? Pretty ridiculous if it was steroids at that time.
No wonder the NZ lady was 'off color' in the final.
These athletes all know who's on.
Metenolone "a long-acting anabolic steroid with weak androgenic (testosterone or androsterone-like) properties". Stupid. Wonder if she was using it to help with an injury.
lease wrote:
In fairness, however, MLB had no policy in place when McGuire and Sosa were battling.
Not true, actually. While MLB had no testing in place at that time, MLB had a policy in place prohibiting the use of steroids as of 1991.
The announcement came hours after the flame was extinguished at the closing ceremony with athletes and officials heading out of London. A day earlier, IOC President Jacques Rogge had proclaimed the fight against doping a success.
"I like the women's throws because it's fun to guess who's doping just purely based on their screams alone. From memory, all the Chinese sounded normal, Valerie Adams sounded normal (for a Tongan), and even the Russian third placer sounded and LOOKED normal (that's a new one).
The other Belarussian, other Russian and the Chilean all had that horrible throaty, manly scream. In fact Ostapchuk didn't scream at all, guess she was smart enough to hide it."
This reminds me of an East German coach who once said when asked, why his athletes have such deep voices:
"The girls are her for swimming, not for singing!"
I posted before, it got deleted, which is weird.
Who in the world thinks they are going to get away with taking anabolic steroids at the Olympics??? Maybe she had a masking agent that failed.
At least when Ramzi used he didn't know there was a test in the works for CERA.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these