Justin Gatlin embroiled in new doping scandal

Definitely interesting and shows you how much shady stuff is still going on. But the secret recording tactic is pretty bush league. Hard to like these reporters and their effort to bring people down. Good for them catching the guy making the prescriptions and some shady agents, but this won't prove any collusion on the part of JG.

told you they would eventually bust him, they will bust coleman as well and bolt will get the gold

I'm not sure exactly to make of that report as it doesn't outline very clearly what Mitchell said.

Big news for sure is that Gatlin has fired his coach Dennis Mitchell.

Most damning comments seem to be from Wagner, then Mitchell and Gatlin isn't directly involved except saying Wagner is his “race track” agent.

"Gatlin said that Wagner arranged deals and travel and was paid a percentage of his earnings. “His connections run deep, deeper than he allows us to know,” the sprinter said."

At the very least Gatlin is suffering from associating with questionable characters which we've criticized him for. At the worst, he's been back doping.

I take back what I said about Mitchell article does say this, "Mitchell, who has worked as Gatlin’s coach for several years, was also involved in the scheme to train the actor and offered to arrange for doctors to administer the drugs."

So Mitchell and Wagner are both on record saying they can get the fake actor drugs. Wagner said Gatlin used the drugs as well.

This is shocking news. I never would have guessed that gatlin would have anything to do with steroids.

The real shocking info about this is not so much these guys are tied to shady stuff, but why would an actor ever pay $250,000 for some testosterone and growth hormone that they could get supplied by their own doctor? Or they could buy it online for less than 1% of that cost. Something isn't right about that.

Wagner's U.S. athletes, according to the USATF site:

https://www.usatf.org/groups/AthleteRepresentatives/directory/info.asp?ID=334

He also represents Christopher Belcher, the North Carolina A&T Athlete who seemingly went pro between the semis and final at USA's.

Belcher's college coaches: Balco athletes Garfield Ellenwood and Duane Ross.

This explain a bit more about the connection of Wagner to Nehemiah (May, 2010):

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2010/05/Issue-177/Sports-Industrialists.aspx

"OCTAGON SIGNS WAGNER: Octagon has added European track agent and event organizer ROBERT WAGNER to its Olympics & Action Sports division. Wagner represents 32 clients, including American LOLO JONES, Great Britain's DAVID GREENE and Slovenia's MARIJA SESTAK. He also worked on several international events like the European championships. He will remain in Europe and work closely with Octagon Dir Of Track & Field RENALDO NEHEMIAH. Wagner will work in Octagon's Monaco office. Nehemiah said, "I didn't have a global partner to truly feel that we were a global entity. With USAIN BOLT mania, we think we can leverage the addition of Robert Wagner. Having someone who is well known throughout the world and has a lot of experience really shores up our abilities on all fronts""

You need to put up a copy or a link without a pay wall so we can all see it.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

You need to put up a copy or a link without a pay wall so we can all see it.

what paywall?

wejo wrote: At the worst, he's been back doping.

Sorry, he's been doping. As for shady characters, IOC sports are full of them.

A sprinter accused of drugging? Huh. Did you know they landed on the moon?

Not a good look for former USATF relays coach Dennis Mitchell.

Kendra Chambers also with Robert Wagner.

Oh god. This could get ugly.

This site's founders and friends will do anything to discredit the guy.

Does this mean anything? No.

Too soon to say what this means for Gatlin, but proof to us all that USATF is utterly against those of us who want a clean sport. They have claimed all along that Mitchell had changed his ways. If there was any justice, this revelation would lead to a complete change of folks at USATF, from the from the board to the paid staff. I won't hold my breath, but they are all looking like chumps now.

Shoebacca wrote:

Definitely interesting and shows you how much shady stuff is still going on. But the secret recording tactic is pretty bush league. Hard to like these reporters and their effort to bring people down. Good for them catching the guy making the prescriptions and some shady agents, but this won't prove any collusion on the part of JG.

People like you drive me nuts. You want the information to come out, but you don't want what has to be done to get the info out. It must be nice to play with dolls as a grown up.

ovui wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

You need to put up a copy or a link without a pay wall so we can all see it.

what paywall?

The same Wall I just saw.

Mcdouble wrote:

This is shocking news. I never would have guessed that gatlin would have anything to do with steroids.

You're name and comment are just gold, dangit.

Stuff like this makes me love letsrun so much more, even after all these years.