Ethiopian Doping Positives on the way

They are at least 20 years too late. Nevertheless would still love to see some big names exposed.

When will they focus on the UK and expose Paula Radcliffe? Thanks.

kjv wrote:

When will they focus on the UK and expose Paula Radcliffe? Thanks.

It was the altitude/antibiotics/dehydration/lab error.

historian wrote:

They are at least 20 years too late. Nevertheless would still love to see some big names exposed.

b-level. At minimum, taking down an a-lister makes more problems. Take down a bunch of b-level athletes and the IAAF looks tough and can still collect bribes from the a-level athletes who make more than $20,000/yr.

Also sex and beer the night before.

historian wrote:

kjv wrote:

When will they focus on the UK and expose Paula Radcliffe? Thanks.

It was the altitude/antibiotics/dehydration/lab error.

Paula gives Sebbie BJs to keep her image clean amongst the naive, stupid and gullible populace.

The Dibabas are untouchable because they're hot, even though they load up on The good stuff every day. That's the IAAF and Sebbie for ya.

Why do they tell us positives are on the way, then wait weeks, instead of announcing as soon as they have the test results?

As the years go by, it's a sad reality how prevalent doping has become at every possible level. People have been accused of being nuts thinking that top high school athletes are doping. Not saying I agree with that line of thinking, but I can't blame folks for losing faith in the sport.

Nothing to see here. B-list non-Olympians will be busted. Ms. Windmill Arms will continue to down the sauce.

Mobot, who trains every year in Ethi-dope-ia, will not be named as a positive, even if he tests positive multiple times. Mo' money buys golden silence.

Paula gives Sebbie BJs to keep her image clean amongst the naive, stupid and gullible populace.

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That is like getting it from Paul. I don't think that is an inducement.

Where does a 500 pound gorilla sit; anywhere he wants to. Whether it's Kenya, Ethiopia or the Caribbean, as long as NGBs are not conducting, surprise and random OOC testing, athletes will dope and get away with it. Perhaps WADA's biggest shortcoming is relying on often non-existent -or inefficient and corrupt national federations. Athletes in these 3rd world countries are national heroes, their income support large extended families and the taxes they pay are a major source of income. These countries are simply not going to turn in one of their own. They might turn in a small fish from time-to-time, but I can't recall any global championship medal contender being turned in by a third world country. Going back decades, nearly all of the USA high profile dopers were caught by USADA. If Tyson Gay for example was Jamaican, he would not have been busted. Several years ago, Renee Shirley had to go into hiding for simply stating Jamaica was not doing OOC testing.

To answer the question of are Ethiopians are doping, of course they are and why not?

Speaking of the Mo-bot, I love how the newspaper article dealt with the way this story might affect British athletes. Like poor Mo Farah - he's just trying to get some good training in, but everywhere he goes, it seems like dopers are always following him around. Must be really frustrating for him! Can't a guy go train in a remote mountain running camp without dopers always following him around?

TrackCoach wrote:

Where does a 500 pound gorilla sit; anywhere he wants to. Whether it's Kenya, Ethiopia or the Caribbean, as long as NGBs are not conducting, surprise and random OOC testing, athletes will dope and get away with it.

I believe the idea that there is no OOC tests in Kenya has been debunked. There's some document people post that shows hundreds of OOC tests in kenya.

But this is all hard to get to the bottom of - there's no doubt much subtlety that only someone up to their elbows in it will understand.

Hopefully Aregawi doesn't count as Ethiopian for this disclosure.

As far as Kenyan Ooc blood testing: they get warning of upcoming test and the samples are sitting in a guys' fridge in Iten, still untested. A real joke, Reid was shaking his head.

I think we need IAAF and WADA to audit and publish audit results for all of the top countries - US, Russia, UK, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Kenya, etc.

There may be testing but what are the details?

The US has had a lot of dirty runners over the years but at least we can say that the US has an agency that tries to catch people.

Vilgax wrote:

Speaking of the Mo-bot, I love how the newspaper article dealt with the way this story might affect British athletes. Like poor Mo Farah - he's just trying to get some good training in, but everywhere he goes, it seems like dopers are always following him around. Must be really frustrating for him! Can't a guy go train in a remote mountain running camp without dopers always following him around?

That's exactly the opposite of what the article is doing! They are trying to subtly point out to the British public how suspicious it is that Mo goes there.

They aren't allowed to say Mo is doping or even insinuate it directly so they have to write back handed articles like this.

Last Laugh wrote:

Hopefully Aregawi doesn't count as Ethiopian for this disclosure.

As far as Kenyan Ooc blood testing: they get warning of upcoming test and the samples are sitting in a guys' fridge in Iten, still untested. A real joke, Reid was shaking his head.

They werent testing for substances they were taking basic blood samples for the blood passport. RBC counts and the like. Not the kinds of things you can change/hide over night