What's this article meant to achieve? It provides literally no useful info and only seeks to cast doubt upon all high profile GB athletes, some of whom might not even be involved in this situation
100% agree. Comes across as pure clickbait. Lawton is sensationalistic and usually very negative in his pieces. No respect. Remember when he started casting doubt on Beth Potter's 5k road WR, quoting her past pbs and results (disregarding the fact she is now a triathlete so not racing on the road/track regularly anymore). No celebration of her achievement. Just came across as a complete a-hole. Speculating for clickbait sake.
What's this article meant to achieve? It provides literally no useful info and only seeks to cast doubt upon all high profile GB athletes, some of whom might not even be involved in this situation
100% agree. Comes across as pure clickbait. Lawton is sensationalistic and usually very negative in his pieces. No respect. Remember when he started casting doubt on Beth Potter's 5k road WR, quoting her past pbs and results (disregarding the fact she is now a triathlete so not racing on the road/track regularly anymore). No celebration of her achievement. Just came across as a complete a-hole. Speculating for clickbait sake.
fair point, terrible example. That Potter "WR" was completely false
Then there was his 'coverage' of Oliver Dustin's sample screwup two years back, wrecking the poor guy's season just to be first to press. I wonder if Dustin received any recompense for that?
What's this article meant to achieve? It provides literally no useful info and only seeks to cast doubt upon all high profile GB athletes, some of whom might not even be involved in this situation
Nope, disagree.
until the day the athletes of a federation or body all decide to go full Craig Engels and vote for public disclosure of testing and TUEs then they’re all lumped into the broken and failed privacy protected honour system that we are left with. They can ask for that, for the betterment of their sport, they choose not to.
it’s ridiculous that the TUE and missed test gang will end their careers as heroes.
The world of sports is once again under scrutiny as a growing number of British athletes are facing potential bans due to missed drug tests. This alarming trend, characterized by an unprecedented surge in skipped tests, has raised significant concerns about the integrity of athletic competition and the adherence to anti-doping regulations. This topic delves into the implications of this issue, exploring the reasons behind missed drug tests, the potential consequences for athletes, and the broader impact on the reputation of sports. The Surge in Missed Drug Tests: The staggering increase in missed drug tests among British athletes has sent shockwaves through the sporting community. Athletes who fail to provide accurate whereabouts information or are not available for testing during the specified time windows
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Given these athletes receive public money from UK Sport, they should be named. Compound this with UKAD being perhaps the most incurious AD organisation in the world, it would be surprising if a big UK name was ever caught and properly sanctioned.
I suppose 'incurious' is one thing. As opposed to actively loking thr other way and falsely supporting dirty sthletes aka usada.
I think you'd be surprised how many athletes find themselves with 1 and 2 strikes. I remember Kate Grace saying on a podcast that she ended up with one when she moved house and forgot to update her info.
On another note, this is a further reason why British athletes have no faith in UKA. Why is someone from UKA going to a journalist to report this? The correct thing to do is to address it directly with athletes and coaches. Instead, they're feeding this story to a journalist in return for a nice lunch just to make themselves feel important. Let's repeat: nobody has broken any rules here, they just have 1 or 2 strikes, and a UKA official is making it sound like they're cheaters. No wonder the athletes hate UKA and everyone inside the organisation
Normally your numbers are pure lies, so I don't know if these are correct.
But no or extremely few British busts tells us what, Coevett?
Most rational people would ascribe that to not having a doping culture, which was evidenced by the fact that GB was just about the only country to get slower during the EPO era.
Femboi/Hoad and a few others here are in El K last lap land where fewer busts are evidence of doping.
There are 63 Kenyans serving suspensions right now at the last count.
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