Breaking: The IAAF drops the hammer - 28 athletes busted from re-test of samples from 2005 and 2007 World Champs !!

Funny thing is, looking at it now they awarded medals to those they thought were clean, but where the next in line to step up was later caught they didn't award them the medal... maybe they knew they were dirty but didn't have the proof to throw them out as well.

Looking at the results and there are so many names that pop out I can't list them all.

Kara G. Bronze Medal in 07.

wr potential wrote:

Funny thing is, looking at it now they awarded medals to those they thought were clean, but where the next in line to step up was later caught they didn't award them the medal... maybe they knew they were dirty but didn't have the proof to throw them out as well.

Finishing 4th or 5th in the final might be the way forward in the future.

No immediate medal so your chances of being dope tested post race are less, and you're probably going to move up the rankings over the course of the next few years.

On that note, maybe we will finally see Ennis get that bronze medal in the Heptathlon. She was appealing to the IAAF to get it upgraded recently..

Phantasy Star wrote:

Sacrificial lambs. Again.

Sadly I agree with you. I will be very surprised if any "big names" will be named in this latest IAAF drugs bust.

Tomashova, at age 40, was named to the Russian team at 1500m

Will be interesting to see if she is dropped from their squad after this announcement

Statue of Limitations wrote:

LOL,.... so much for the NOP defenders claiming the statute of limitations was enough to protect Salazar from pass misdoings. Such statutes are not built strong enough to protect cheaters. The statues rest on edge of soft-sided cliffs.

Connecting the dots.

When you consider the fast that they are testing urine, toss out the athletes that have already been sanctioned, USADA conducts the same exact tests and more frequently and the fact that none of the athletes are currently competing in the WCs, etc. This suggest to me that it is unlikely that any NOP athletes are among the 28 and probably no more than one U.S. athlete. If you are hoping to bag an NOP athlete, I think you will be disappointed. Also NOP does its own blood tests on its athletes at least twice a year. I think the list will mostly be countries with questionable testing like Russia and Africa. The good thing is they can repeat this process again every year.

and those tests are to catch cheaters?

That data is provided to WADA for independent testing?

wr potential wrote:

If they have any samples from 2003 they should make it 12 years and retest them too - but it looks like they only started this long term storage program in 2005 sadly..

Yes, there is a very specific 1500 runner who retired between 2003 and 2005 who's samples I would also like to see re-tested.

The Daily Mail was clearly tipped off about this at the weekend and at least one name was mentioned. So I suspect it won't be more than 24 hours before we get some leaks as to who...

hart crane wrote:

Kara G. Bronze Medal in 07.

Now THAT certainly would be coincidental.

So how long are we waiting before names can be released? 30 days? 6 months? Anyone know precedent from previous busts?

Sky Sports News just said: "We believe that none of the athletes are British".

Those still competing are provisionally suspended.

hart crane wrote:

"None of the athletes involved will be competing in Beijing"

Well one of them refused to sign the Statement of Conditions and was dramatically left off of the team.

ok, not really.

What an effing joke... there's no way they'd release these results before the ARD documentary. And now that they'll do, they're blowing the whistle on a bunch of retired Russians and deflecting from the current stars. Joke.

Clever from the IAAF, it does look like a response to the recent leaked bio-passport data, when it reality it has nothing to do with that lot.

This is the ultimate proof about the IAAF covering many, many positives.

If the re-analysis of these samples has been ongoing for some time (allegedly before ARD-Seppelt's doping investigation) why was announced now? it's not a casuality.

Probably, with the retesting methods, they're catching at least 70% of the top 8 athletes for each individual event. With all these positives, they pick some "sacrificial lambs" (Russian walkers, Old-Eastern Bloc Throwers, Moroccans, Algerians, Indians, etc) and then, they notify the athletes. The rest of the dopers are covered, because it would be a mess for any sport to say that 70% of the top 8 athletes for each event are doped.

Dingleberry wrote:

wr potential wrote:

If they have any samples from 2003 they should make it 12 years and retest them too - but it looks like they only started this long term storage program in 2005 sadly..

Yes, there is a very specific 1500 runner who retired between 2003 and 2005 who's samples I would also like to see re-tested.

Lol, I look up to Hicham, and this is still funny to me.

Ramzi is going to lose two golds and a silver.

07 1500 will be Lagat, Korir, Kiprop

05 1500 will be Kouch, Silva, Heshko

05 800 will be Yuriy, Yiampoy, Bungei