100H WR holder Tobi Amusan says she is being charged with whereabouts violations

I hope she gets banned for life!

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.

But a faulty wind gauge wouldn't surprise me.

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.

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.

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 American, she would have one of those tests backdated for... reasons. As she's Nigerian, the ban will be incoming.

But to the point: if you're sitting on two missed tests, you make damn sure you're extra careful. If you don't, you're an idiot.

That mob can't explain why it's the obvious dopers that get caught.

Grace Nwokocha as well.

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.

False, of course we can. The most obvious dopers dope the most and are therefore more readily caught doping or have to dodge the testers a lot.

Smart microdosers have a less suspicious progression and performances, are tested less, and are quite (but not 100%) safe from getting caught.

And of course there are exceptions in both groups.

So basically you have no evidence at all that 'everybody is doping' and it's all speculation on your part?

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).

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.

Speculating without evidence is what you have been doing here for years.

She's a world record-holder. It goes without saying now that that is a doper.

Well you asked for an explanation, and received one. You could say thank you, or argue against it, or ask more stupid questions like you just did.

Truly shocking.