IAAF finds 6 new dopers using biological passport

Can an athlete be suspended based on the biological passport alone? I know the UCI was basically using it as a way to target more testing towards suspicious athletes.

How many checkpoints are there on the passport? Could you gradually up the doses until there are no wild jumps, just consistently super high levels?

came before the chicken wrote:

How many checkpoints are there on the passport? Could you gradually up the doses until there are no wild jumps, just consistently super high levels?

I think the best way to avoid detection from the 'bio-passport' is to be from a country that the IAAF doesn't want to catch.

When it's not as black and white as: drugs found = ban, they can pick and choose who they ban and who they don't ban.

That's why all the cheats they catch with this system come from places everybody presumes are cheating anyway.

trollism wrote:

came before the chicken wrote:

How many checkpoints are there on the passport? Could you gradually up the doses until there are no wild jumps, just consistently super high levels?

I think the best way to avoid detection from the 'bio-passport' is to be from a country that the IAAF doesn't want to catch.

When it's not as black and white as: drugs found = ban, they can pick and choose who they ban and who they don't ban.

That's why all the cheats they catch with this system come from places everybody presumes are cheating anyway.

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trollism - could you stop being so mysterious? Remember that we cannot read your mind.

How is this news? Goumri was busted almost 2 months ago.

The news is that they were busted using the biological passport; was that originally announced?

Gee, a Moroccan, a Greek, and three Russians out of 6.

That's a big surprise, isn't it?

I wish they'd catch everyone in the 100m.

The above post really had me laughing. We'd have some little Asian guy from Korea bringing home the gold in like 11.5 or something.

If those are the things they test for with the genetic passport, then how do they pick up growth hormone users or anabolic steroid users?

Net resting that letsrun posters always accuse great Jamaican and Africann American athletes of doping.8 of these are Europeans,and I hear many to come.

lpd wrote:

Net resting that letsrun posters always accuse great Jamaican and Africann American athletes of doping.8 of these are Europeans,and I hear many to come.

Yeah, everybody is always so trusting and supportive of the Russians and the Greeks. Nobody has ever even suggested that any of them would be involved with doping. Not ever ever ever.

Those Spanish and Italians too. Nobody ever suggests that they might dope on here.

Don't get me started on the super-clean Belarussians and Bulgarians.

Good point... this is only the "hematological module", so there must be more to it that is not documented here. They must measure t/e ratio etc. as well.

From page 26:

The Markers will be specifically selected based on the relevant doping scenario. For instance, Markers of an altered erythropoiesis will be taken into consideration to confirm blood manipulation or aerobic performance enhancement. Steroid Markers in urine, on the other hand, may be used to demonstrate the use of anabolic steroid(s).

From page 6:

"While the processes and framework outlined in this guideline are intended for a haematological module, it will also be applicable to future modules, such as steroid and endocrine. "

Pk ripper wrote:

The above post really had me laughing. We'd have some little Asian guy from Korea bringing home the gold in like 11.5 or something.

well, at least he'd beat Nick Symmonds - who, as we all know by now, cannot break 12 out of the blocks.

Even NASCAR is doin' some testin'! These boys are all ate up with methamphetemine! Prolly.

NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger has been suspended indefinitely after his failed drug test was confirmed by a second sample, the stock car racing series announced on its website (nascar.com) on Tuesday.

Allmendinger's original failed test was announced on July 7, causing the 30-year-old to be suspended temporarily until his B sample was reviewed.

NASCAR did not identify the drug found in the driver's system that violated their substance abuse policy.

agip wrote:

Holy crap Nataliya Tobias won a bronze in 2008 Beijing in the 1500 - I hate this crap.

She should blame her rabbi for feeding her some contaminated bagels.

How are more people not freaking out over this? Given that we all know to a virtual certainty that Rupp is doping, our nation's distance medal hopes could be about to take a major hit, here... here's hoping the authorities consider us a "smiley country" or whatever that trollist idiot keeps talking about...

agip wrote:

ok, Bulgaria wasn't technically in the USSR, but pretty close.

Mexico wasn't technically in the USA, but pretty close.

Sometimes my fellow Americans amaze me (not in a good way).