a cleaner sport wanter wrote:
Yylo wrote:When the probable women's 1500 gold medalist is allowed to run after her coach is caught with EPO at the same hotel she is staying at, that's pretty farcical. And very unfair to clean athletes.
It looks like the women's 1500 will be no cleaner than in 2012.
The good news is that a man will win the woman's 800m and a couple of other men may medal in the same event.
Yes, but this isn't the IAAF's fault or any individual within the sport. The IAAF didn't want her competing with raised testosterone levels and forced her to take medication to combat this. It was the CAS that overturned that ruling and allowed Semenya to compete with her raised testosterone levels due to being born with testes.
No one at the IAAF can do anything about it.
And there is no evidence the IAAF has covered up this Aden issue. They have to go through proper legal protocol, which is time consuming and wrapped up in red tape. It's very easy for posters on a message board to cry 'foul' when they are not aware of all that has been going on at the top.
Even if the IAAF wanted to ban all of Aden's athletes, which they probably do, I don't think they are in a legal position to do so at the moment, if all the athletes tests came back negative.
The IAAF has made a stand against the Russians, and even this gets criticism from some quarters on here, and have shown that they are now trying to do something about it. But they can't just go around and randomly ban anyone who LetsRun posters think are doping.