george oscar bluth wrote:
I hope Lyles makes a parody video of hiding from testers.
His agent should try and hook him up with an endorsement for that Amazon doorbell. That would be an epic troll.
george oscar bluth wrote:
I hope Lyles makes a parody video of hiding from testers.
His agent should try and hook him up with an endorsement for that Amazon doorbell. That would be an epic troll.
I’m surprised how much traction this thread has received. Does anyone put the words professional sprinters and doping together and then say ‘can’t be’. How can you compete on an Olympic level against highly sophisticated doping regimes and not dope yourself. If doping gives an already talented athlete a 10% advantage (just for argument sake), what kind of superhero would you have to be to be clean and be a world champion.
If your a professional athlete at this level you shouldn't miss one .
They wouldn't accidentally miss a race ... you know when you should be somewhere and there should be a pretty good reason for not being.
If they banned people for missing one - let's say a year + fines like in soccer and other sports - they would soon show up. If they don't they know the score.
I remember when Rio Ferdinand (manchester united player) missed a drugs test - he got an 8month ban and £50k fine
larkimm wrote:
So its Coleman on three missed tests.
Idiotic at best, but he'll be able to point to no failed tests to suggest he's not a cheat, just an idiot.
No way an elite should be missing 3. 1 is forgiveable, 2 starts to make you look shady, 3 is either deliberate or just demonstrates idiocy. Whether idiocy is something you should be criticised for is another matter.
ill let mo know 1 miss test is acceptable to letsruners
Can anyone tell, what has he posted on his story (I don't have an account)
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
Ray wrote:
Am I the only one that sees this entire thread as irresponsible?
No, I do as well. Letsrun needs to cut the legitimate media claims and come out as a click-baity gossip site.
Yet again, I thought my opinion of the BroJohns couldn't get any lower.
Lets see if Nike drops him like a pregnant woman.
From now on, when an athlete runs sub-9.80, or wins a world title, the interviewer should lead with:
"(ATHLETE X), YOU HAVE JUST TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE 100 METER DASH! HOW DOES IT FEEL?"
Alll wrote:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/_coleman2Can anyone tell, what has he posted on his story (I don't have an account)
A video of his spikes at the track, a video of a massaging table, and then him sharing a fan photo of him with the fan.
sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
Ray wrote:
Am I the only one that sees this entire thread as irresponsible?
No, I do as well. Letsrun needs to cut the legitimate media claims and come out as a click-baity gossip site.
dude its a forum. There is a difference between forums and articles
Sean_Dyer wrote:
If your a professional athlete at this level you shouldn't miss one .
They wouldn't accidentally miss a race ... you know when you should be somewhere and there should be a pretty good reason for not being.
If they banned people for missing one - let's say a year + fines like in soccer and other sports - they would soon show up. If they don't they know the score.
I remember when Rio Ferdinand (manchester united player) missed a drugs test - he got an 8month ban and £50k fine
He should have made it his number one mission to go find them not the other way around after missing even one test.
HobbyRacer wrote:
Lets see if Nike drops him like a pregnant woman.
OK, that was funny.
larkimm wrote:
Idiotic at best, but he'll be able to point to no failed tests to suggest he's not a cheat, just an idiot.
No way an elite should be missing 3. 1 is forgiveable, 2 starts to make you look shady, 3 is either deliberate or just demonstrates idiocy. Whether idiocy is something you should be criticised for is another matter.
Exactly that — Idiotic at best!
rojo wrote:
brickrunnin wrote:
You would think after the first missed test, he would be especially careful to update his whereabouts and stick to them. USADA is VERY helpful in this and it's 100% the athlete's fault for missing tests. I hope he's not on something but given the fact that he missed 3 tests in an environment where it's very easy to update your location, I have to think he's hiding something.
I 100% agree. You think after the first one you'd get nervous. After the second one, you think it would become the most important thing in your life. I'm serious. But he's young. So if it's not the most important thing in your life, you think it would be the most important thing in his agent's life. Do you know how much money the fastest guy in the world is worth?
A LOT.
I'd be like, "Christian, I need to know where you will be for 1 hour tomorrow. You must be there. Period." Repeat that the next day and next.
Now I've heard through the grapevine that his appeal has some legs to it so it'll be interesting as to what comes out.
I have it on good authority it is not Coleman. It's someone else. Also dangerous to have this conversation online about people.
larkimm wrote:
So its Coleman on three missed tests.
Idiotic at best, but he'll be able to point to no failed tests to suggest he's not a cheat, just an idiot.
No way an elite should be missing 3. 1 is forgiveable, 2 starts to make you look shady, 3 is either deliberate or just demonstrates idiocy. Whether idiocy is something you should be criticised for is another matter.
Dopers do it in cycles not all the time. Hence he was tested clean in those periods and ducked the tests when he knew he was glowing
Ryry wrote:
I have it on good authority it is not Coleman. It's someone else. Also dangerous to have this conversation online about people.
Coleman is only #1
More to come.
larkimm wrote:
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
This might be a dumb question...
How exactly does one prove they didn't miss a test?
I'm assuming the only way would be to really say "We told you we were going to be in (Some Other Location) during this time and you showed up to a different location during that same time"
There have been cases where hotel staff have refused to divulge room numbers or allow visitors to contact elite sportspeople staying with them (despite being requested to do so by the sportsman / woman). Or extreme circumstances like "I said I would be at 10 Acacia Avenue 10-2pm but at 9:45 I was told my mum had been in a car crash 100 miles away and I immediately left to go to the hospital to visit" etc. If the testers show up at the wrong place, I guess you could just compare the Whereabouts details. So they turn up at 10 Station Road, Sometown and you were at 10 Station Drive, Sometown (and that's what's on the Whereabouts).
If that occurs, there is a process by which an athlete can appeal that missed test.
If you put in the wrong address that is on you; if the DCO goes to the wrong location, that would not count as a missed test from my understanding.
Didn't you guys learn anything from the Frank Meza thread? It is BULLYING to call a cheater a cheater.
To this whole thing, I have but one comment so far:
Hmmmm...
Well, one of Brianna's violations was at an airport. Rollins had already passed through airport security. The testers were not flying that day, so they were on the other side of security. In order to comply with the testers, Rollins would have had to exit security, give the sample, then go through security again, possibly risking a missed flight, a missed meet, etc.
I also heard of Lopes-Schliep (Canadian hurdler who looked jacked but had a hereditary condition where her whole family looked jacked) was approached by testers just before she was competing in a championship final! She asked if it could wait until after the race and the testers said no, so she gave them the sample:
So some of this testing stuff is crazy!