The timing (system) was pretty interesting on that WR set last year too.
i think the timing was legit. something was probably wrong with the wind gauge though.
A staffer at Track and Field News talked to a videographer who filmed the race. He counted the numbers of frames in his video of the race from start to finish and determined that the time was accurate.
Any way this period covers worlds last year and invalidates the record? It was obviously suspicious as all get out at the time.
Not necessarily. The first failed test could have been any time in the last 12 months, not necessarily 12 months ago. For example, 3 times in the last 12 months could be 3 times in the last 3 months.
That doesn't mean she wasn't on PEDs during last year's world championships, but she may not have missed a test until after the World Championships.
Why do professional athletes with managers/agents get charged with whereabouts violations? Shouldn't this be an easy thing for athletes to follow or am I missing something?
Jenny Simpson explained it years ago. If you miss three tests you are either stupid or cheating.
sucks for someone likeGabby Thomas because it’s hard to believe she’s stupid and went to Harvard. Although she did improve a lot after her missed tests.
however, listening to American podcasts it’s hard for people to really understand the rules. All the talk about whether Coleman could have got back with a minute to spare etc…the rule is you have to be there for the entire hour you tell them. If you already have two missed tests if you aren’t there for the third one you obviously are very unprofessional or don’t care.
If she was Russian competing with a white flag she would be banned for life immediately. This isn’t the first time members of Nigerian team have been busted for violations, one is Blessing Okagbare banned for hgh and testosterone, other one is Divine Oduduru who would have competed for Nigeria had he not not also been sanctioned for two substances. Ban her for 2 years immediately ;she broke the rules sit out a few years and try not to get caught again.
Why do professional athletes with managers/agents get charged with whereabouts violations? Shouldn't this be an easy thing for athletes to follow or am I missing something?
Is this a rhetorical question ? 18 year olds working at McDonalds come to work on time and yet a person who gets paid descent $ to run “forgets” drug tests. Perhaps there might be something else going on and it’s not really forgetting?
If she was Russian competing with a white flag she would be banned for life immediately. This isn’t the first time members of Nigerian team have been busted for violations, one is Blessing Okagbare banned for hgh and testosterone, other one is Divine Oduduru who would have competed for Nigeria had he not not also been sanctioned for two substances. Ban her for 2 years immediately ;she broke the rules sit out a few years and try not to get caught again.
Why do professional athletes with managers/agents get charged with whereabouts violations? Shouldn't this be an easy thing for athletes to follow or am I missing something?
Assuming they’re not being wildly irresponsible or willfully evading a test, a lot of this can be put down to doping control officers who choose to not give the athletes a ring when they arrive at the location for the test but don’t make initial contact with them.
As I wrote on an earlier thread, an athlete could be in their hotel room during their testing window and because the doping control officer has no keycard to grant them access to the lift, the tester can either choose ring the athlete’s mobile phone or the hardline in the room and ask them to meet them at the hotel reception — or — the same tester can choose not to ring them at all and simply wait in hotel reception without attempting further contact. After an hour of not seeing the athlete in the hotel reception (because the athlete is waiting in their room as they designated on their whereabouts), the tester marks the athlete as having missed an out of competition test.
I haven’t a clue on Amusan’s particulars but the above scenario has and does happen.
You're being downvoted but I guarantee there is wild fluctuation among doping control agents. Sheer numbers dictate that aspect. Caliber and method.
Some will be extremely thorough and make sure they bend their schedule to favor the athlete and take every step to find the athlete, while others will treat it like a game of gotcha and be looking at their watch while eager to pounce.
On two strikes you can only hope not to draw a gotcha type.
We've never seen a documentary on the doping control operations. That tells me it's not nearly as sophisticated or impressive as they want you to believe.
I know that from my decades in Las Vegas. There's no chance the sportsbook industry will allow behind the scenes access. All the myths would be shattered within one episode. The public would be stunned once they realized it was nothing but dunderheads who rely exclusively on power ratings.
The demonstrated effectiveness of PEDs (and other forms of doping, such as blood doping) are too powerful, and the margins of excellence in the sport of running too small, for anyone turning in top level performances not to be benefiting from them.
If you want to believe that your favorite super-elite athlete is clean, then you have to ask yourself: what would they be running if they were doping? If you then make the necessary percentage adjustment, you come up with a result that analytically, theoretically, makes no real word sense.
And everyone involved in the sport at the top level knows this.
It's not hard to see who runs World Athletics (where is it based? who is the President? what athletes are constantly featured on WA's home page?) and the profile of top level athletes who never get singled out.
Why do professional athletes with managers/agents get charged with whereabouts violations? Shouldn't this be an easy thing for athletes to follow or am I missing something?
Because they might test positive if they do the test....
I think a lot of them may see it as the lesser of two evils (the other being a positive test).
Jenny Simpson explained it years ago. If you miss three tests you are either stupid or cheating.
sucks for someone likeGabby Thomas because it’s hard to believe she’s stupid and went to Harvard. Although she did improve a lot after her missed tests.
however, listening to American podcasts it’s hard for people to really understand the rules. All the talk about whether Coleman could have got back with a minute to spare etc…the rule is you have to be there for the entire hour you tell them. If you already have two missed tests if you aren’t there for the third one you obviously are very unprofessional or don’t care.
Given the tests are random and that they could happen on any given day, the odds of an athlete missing 3 tests over the course of a year and those be the only 3 times they've been not where they're meant to be is mathematically improbable.
Whenever an athlete has 3 whereabouts failures, you can pretty much guarantee they've been elsewhere many, many more times than that.