Hamza Driouch listed to run Australian 1500m Championships this coming weekend

In all likelihood he is still doping

If he's morrocan ? ,they all dope anyway

It's a disgrace, he and everyone associated with him gets an asterisk next to all their stained results going forward. Disgusting that some clean Aussie athlete could miss a spot in the final to a cheating scum bag.

Unbelievable! Seriously AA are scared of Nic Bideau! What an absolute joke that he is coaching this convicted cheat. AA need to pull him from the meet.......but they won't because they are scared of Nic!

On the topic of Nîkky B.....but was it me or were most of the middle distance athlete competing at Nitro under contract with him? Dont know him but have yet to hear someone talk positive about him.

Nobody with half a brain wanted to do nitro, it was purely for $ in his pocket. Finally his brainwashed squad realise it's all about one person & it ain't the athletes, stay tuned for departures.

justacasualtrackfan wrote:

On the topic of Nîkky B.....but was it me or were most of the middle distance athlete competing at Nitro under contract with him? Dont know him but have yet to hear someone talk positive about him.

Aussies are pretty tough people. Can't someone just strongarm him out of the race and perform the duty that the sport's governing bodies are not prepared to do?

As I competed with him during world youth in Lille I followed Hamza a bit.

He was the only one in the 800m final who actually looked like a "youth" already their we were wondering if he's clean or how could this be possible?

After this he got banned for an irregular blood passport which he claimed to not have known about and he was coached by Jama Aden at that time... which says already a lot...

“At that time I was too young, I did not understand what was happening! He (Aden) gave me vitamins, he said it is good for recovery.” When Baudrier asked, “How many pills do you take per day? Or injections?” Driouch replied, “You can call Jama, he will tell you all the details.”

So maybe he is clean right now and he was really just unaware of it at the time?

I saw him on some Instagram pictures of MTC members and he looked to hang back their which is in my eyes also a sign of maybe being clean now !

For me I am very curious to see how he will perform and I believe in him being clean now and that might be a great way to see how much doping helped him in the past to perform at the level he used to perform and at what level he is now being hopefully clean

Driouch is unbelievable. Next world record holder.

I don't care that he got caught doping in the past. He was 16. All 16 year olds do stupid things.

He was a young kid groomed into doping by a cheating coach. He moved to an environment where Jama was his sole role model, protector and parent. If Jama gave him injections saying it's how all the best runners exist and there's nothing wrong with it, of course the child listens and allows it to go on.

Good luck to him.

Good post.

Unfortunately, my guess is that he'll likely not ever run faster than 3.38 again. To go from on the special sauce to off can be extremely frustrating. Hence, the reason many cheats go back to their old ways. Hope he erased Aden's contacts from his cell to reduce the temptation.

Dirty paJamas wrote:

Unfortunately, my guess is that he'll likely not ever run faster than 3.38 again. To go from on the special sauce to off can be extremely frustrating. Hence, the reason many cheats go back to their old ways. Hope he erased Aden's contacts from his cell to reduce the temptation.

He's older and more physically mature now. I reckon 3:32 without the dope but older.

"How many pills do you take per day? Or injections?” Driouch replied, “You can call Jama, he will tell you all the details.”

So maybe he is clean right now and he was really just unaware of it at the time? "

Hahaha. 3:33 at 17. Yeah, they're all clean

It's worth noting that Driouch didn't just go from 3:50 miler to being busted immediately - he sucked for a couple of years after that 3:50 (allegedly because of a rare blood disease) and then got busted. So I'd say there's more work to getting back to the promise he once showed besides just the juice/no juice considerations.

Agreed, but I feel strongly that "the promise" he portrayed as a 16/17 yo was due to the "vitamin injections and pills" given him by Uncle Jama.

Either way, I don't see him running 3:26 ever.

he seemed to have the talent to be the next El Guerrouj but it was a mirage fed by doping. You could say that he was young and didn't know what the coaches were giving him, but his reactions, often angry, after the fact totally belied that. He never took responsibility. Once a doper, pretty likely always a doper.

It's funny that some people assume his new squad are clean, some extraordinary progression for 3x athletes who'do stalled for a very long time.

Sorry to ruin your fantasy man but Hamza was two years older than stated when he ran those times, so adjust your perception accordingly.

There's no way this guy is 19:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1IPybvl9M