Marion Jones fails drug test

Thanks Dweedle. I have never knowingly blahdiblahdifakingblahadnasium....

Marion

What a leak. Interesting how it's leaked on a Friday afternoon so it will make the weekend newspapers, talkshows, and such. Great media leak and sure to sell papers.

Mirror Mirror wrote:

Thanks Dweedle. I have never knowingly blahdiblahdifakingblahadnasium....

Marion

No problem, Babe. It's too bad, but too many people out there still think a positive A test is the final word. Seems they didn't learn anything from the Lagat mess.

Any idea who's leaking this stuff to our intrepid Post reporter?

I wrote:

Any idea who's leaking this stuff to our intrepid Post reporter?

I guess we can narrow it down to associated withthe USADA, since the testing was handled in the U.S.

Someone from Catlin's lab, possibly? Isn't that the only U.S. lab certified to perform the EPO test?

Or I suppose it could be someone in the USADA bureaucracy who received the results from the lab.

Mirror Mirror wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marion_Jones.jpg

Thanks Dweedle. I have never knowingly blahdiblahdifakingblahadnasium....

Marion

I think this photo might be more appropriate

leaking all over Washington wrote:

What a leak. Interesting how it's leaked on a Friday afternoon so it will make the weekend newspapers, talkshows, and such. Great media leak and sure to sell papers.

You've got it backwards. Weekend leaks are thought to be the least damaging. Political campaigns and administrations deliberatly own up to negative situations on Fridays under the theory that no one is listening on the weekends and it will blow over by Monday.

I just don't know anymore this is really starting to bite.

Yeah who IS legal? ANYONE, NO ONE?

EVERY WC RUNNER IS A CHEAT?

tellmemore wrote:

What does EPO do for sprinters?

Nothing. Marion is innocent. So am I. We are phantom twins.

If they can't follow protocol for anouncing test results, why should we have any confidence that they're following protocol for the testing itself?

Thank god I'll always have my goals and my training and the track and my watch.

FAAAAAAAAAAAK WORLD LEVEL SPORTS!!!

runn wrote:

Let's see- say you were using steroids, but never got caught, but people accused you of using steroids and you denied it over and over on TV and in the press.

Would you continue to use? Don't you think you just might consider stopping and competing clean to avoid getting caught and having the world know you are a lier and cheater?

It just doesn't make sense.

Does :10.7 millionaire with drugs, and :11.2 back of the packer without drugs, clear this up for you?

If you saw her at US nationals you could tell. her body looked completely different than it had the last couple of years, definitely not natural. though i don't know what EPO does for sprinters - anyone know?

not surprised wrote:

though i don't know what EPO does for sprinters - anyone know?

Google "Kelly White" and "EPO."

not surprised wrote:

If you saw her at US nationals you could tell. her body looked completely different than it had the last couple of years, definitely not natural. though i don't know what EPO does for sprinters - anyone know?

EPO builds blood cells. Blood cells are good for ALL athletic activity. What do you think happens whe you are anemic? Your blood cell count is down and you feel tired all the time. You have no energy. Anemic people will not perform the high levels one needs to be at to be a world class athlete.

leaking all over Washington wrote:

What a leak. Interesting how it's leaked on a Friday afternoon so it will make the weekend newspapers, talkshows, and such. Great media leak and sure to sell papers.

Actually Friday afternoon is a bad time to leak things. People do not follow the news as closely over the weekend. The White House often dumps stuff on Friday knowing it gets buried and forgotten about over a weekend.

It was the beer and wild sex

Dweedle wrote:

I wrote:

Any idea who's leaking this stuff to our intrepid Post reporter?

I guess we can narrow it down to associated withthe USADA, since the testing was handled in the U.S.

Someone from Catlin's lab, possibly? Isn't that the only U.S. lab certified to perform the EPO test?

Or I suppose it could be someone in the USADA bureaucracy who received the results from the lab.

It would be a breach of the drug testing rules for the lab to know the identity of the athletes so logically it would be USADA or USATF, leaked just in time to stop her running in Zurich. As far as I know Catlin's lab is the only one accredited for the EPO test in the USA although he has in the past been a bit of a cowboy and changed the test, hopefully he has adhered to the approved protocol as recommended by Peltre & Thormann. I'm rather puzzled by the use of EPO within a couple of days prior to a championships by a sprinter, it doesn't make much sense, a steroid would be more believable

So is the idea this will let her train harder?

What aren't you understanding? Being healthy, meaning being stacked to the gills with red bloods cells will help you train better and help you perform better.