Are the IAAF F*king serious? (re: drug cheat Genzebe Dibaba)

You know what the problem is? There's not more people like you and me that want her stripped of her records and medals and given a lifetime ban. She's a cheat. She was caught. She doesn't need to fail a test for the IAAF to issue a ban. She should be a forgotten name.

You guys don't realize the extent to which corruption exists in the world. Outside of the minority of countries that make up the "first world", it's the norm. It's not even a word that's used with a negative connotation, it's just the way business is done. If you want to know why there are no repercussions to such an obvious drug bust it's because someone is getting wealthy.

Slow clap to the IOC.

What do we expect? Genzebe was the 2015 Iaaf World athlete of the year! She is the Iaaf poster girl as Bolt is poster boy for the same athletics body. No way they gon sweep her under the rug like that without damaging their reputation. The rest of us are just being played.

fdasafgsd wrote:

You guys don't realize the extent to which corruption exists in the world. Outside of the minority of countries that make up the "first world", it's the norm. It's not even a word that's used with a negative connotation, it's just the way business is done. If you want to know why there are no repercussions to such an obvious drug bust it's because someone is getting wealthy.

Phew. Thank goodness i live in a first world country. Never any corruption!

Dibaba runs for NIke.

Agree. Just do not watch any race that the dibabas run in. This site should also not cover any or report any race they run in either. Once sponsors realise that no one is following their events then they may get rid of them.

thanks for pointing this out.....it boggles the mind this training group from Ethiopian are allowed to compete and goes unchallenged by the media. Will we see Olympic athletes stripped of medals again and how many?

Clearly letsrun should have asked for Coe to "resign" in parallel with his buddy Reedie.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/06/month-wada-head-craig-reedie-needs-resign-jama-aden-gets-busted-donavan-brazier-busts/

You are giving this site way too much credit. If she wins she will get a great contract, lose and not so much.

Aden was not caught with any illegal PED's

Dibaba and everyone else in the group had a surprise (and very thorough) test and came out clean

The Saudi guys are in trouble though - and their best athlete was caught for epo

backseat psycho wrote:

fdasafgsd wrote:

You guys don't realize the extent to which corruption exists in the world. Outside of the minority of countries that make up the "first world", it's the norm. It's not even a word that's used with a negative connotation, it's just the way business is done. If you want to know why there are no repercussions to such an obvious drug bust it's because someone is getting wealthy.

Phew. Thank goodness i live in a first world country. Never any corruption!

Aren't you clever. The reality is that he/she is right. In the third world countries corruption permeates every aspect of life. When was the last time you had to bribe a police officer? Embezzling is freaking built into the price of most government interactions for these countries. Yes there is corruption in every country of the world, but it is far far more rampant in third world countries as the entire economy for many of the countries runs on it. Travel a little and get a clue.

This is just yet another example of why I don't watch the pros compete.

Want a clean meet to enjoy? Go to a youth meet. Yeah, there might be some douche parents, but the kids, for the most part, aren't so self-absorbed as the pros. Competition in it's best form.

they same reason gay and gatlin and lagat and paula and lance and marion jones and asafa powel and so on and so on.

when the IOC IAAF USATF and the media and nike and addidas pick their stars you must go along with it. if you cry foul then LR and the media call you "haters"

caster isnt cheating but gets bashed, lagat is somehow running amazing times at 40, dibaba beats chinese records and is applauded, gatlin is running faster times now than when he was on designer steroids, paulas blood results came back very strange and LR defends her....like come on if all the WRs from the women's side are PED enhanced except paulas how is that possible?

dibaba will run so so and claim it was cause of the foot injury and her "disrupting" spring/summer training, then get back on the juice this fall and crush indoor and outdoor again....i see a barely win or 2 place with a "mortal" time

complain about her and not gatlin or lagat, and believe paula was clean ok....this sport is so flail when it comes to excuses and peoples ignorance and being naive

insightlessness wrote:

backseat psycho wrote:

Phew. Thank goodness i live in a first world country. Never any corruption!

Aren't you clever. The reality is that he/she is right. In the third world countries corruption permeates every aspect of life. When was the last time you had to bribe a police officer? Embezzling is freaking built into the price of most government interactions for these countries. Yes there is corruption in every country of the world, but it is far far more rampant in third world countries as the entire economy for many of the countries runs on it. Travel a little and get a clue.

Actually, YOU need to get a clue. I travel all over the world--usually at least one foreign country a month. You have to bribe cops in many third-world or even some more advanced countries because they don't earn diddly-squat. The only reason more cops here in the U.S. aren't taking bribes every day is because they make enough money to support their families. But still we do have corrupt cops. The difference between American corruption and corruption in third-world countries is that we Americans want so badly to believe that we are different, while people in other corrupt countries don't hold as tightly to that delusion. We want to believe, despite all the evidence in front of our eyes, that we actually still live in a republic. Corruption is running rampant in U.S. politics, and the best example right now is the Democratic Party nominee for president. Look at Congress, too--who would have thought that so many people could become millionaires working in a government job as a so-called "public servant." If you fulfill your civic duty this November and vote, you might actually believe that somehow your vote counts and that your candidate will fix the corrupt system. Ain't gonna happen. Most of those scumbags are bought and paid for, and they just want the corrupt gravy train to keep on rolling.

IAAF is a business that will do what's in their best business interests. All they care is about money for themselves. Didoper=$$ for IAAF. Didoper banned =substantially less attention and money for IAAF. Same with Bolt.

Les wrote:

Dibaba runs for NIke.

bingo

The preview is written by the promotional department.

Of course it will have a positive spin.

It's like a commercial but they don't have to make disclaimers like the drug companies (ironically).

Show me the receipts

One of the IAAF's duties is promotions, no organization is going to promote the negative. What else would expect the IAAF to state? And, in terms of the Aden situation, what can the IAAF legally do stop any of Aden's athletes from competing when were not caught with the drugs in their possession and tested clean? - This is not defending the IAAF because I am as pissed as you are, but IK don't let my emotions stand in the way of logic.