The lack of substantial information and specific details renders it meaningless to everyone.
A billion Euros in black market peds annually is anything but lacking "substance", and so is the existence of antidoping bodies whose role it is to try to prevent that - but fail to do so, as the scale of the practice shows.
"A billion (sic) Euros in black market peds (sic)" is woefully unsubstantiated. You refer to an unsourced, unattributed and unexplained quote from an unnamed narrator. This worldwide estimate surely covers major non-WADA sports, like American football, basketball, and baseball; worldwide sports and WADA sports, like soccer, weightlifting, bodybuilding, tennis, swimming, and cycling; athletic events like sprinting and throws and jumps; and non-sports and non-elite athletes, like health clubs, anti-aging clinics, local gyms, and high schools; and is not restricted to substances WADA puts on its banned lists. It may also include animals, like horses in racing, or animal shows, or agriculture, and medicines for third world countries procuring cheaper unauthorized generic versions of patented medicines. They didn't substantiate the allegation.
In these threads, we are mainly concerned with distance running, which would be a tiny fraction of that black market.
You refer to the "scale of the practice", but any estimate of a scale far beyond the 1-2% of analytical testing becomes pure speculation as the estimate goes higher.
I don't admit that but you aren't intelligent enough to see that. I simply say trying to inform one as obviously ignorant as you are isn't worth the effort.
I am intelligent enough to to post 50 times a day here. Unlike you.
A m**** is capable of posting 50 times a day. As you show.
That's bizarre that they can't testify against their lab but also not surprising. It all looks political. There's blatant flaws in testing details:
Primary biomarkers in biological passport can be manipulated with hydration, and 2-hour delay of sample collection after exercise aids this tactic. There are really good biomarkers that can be taken with dried blood spots, but apparently those are too good to actually use.
Lab equipment sensitivity requirement is weak for molidustat.
No procedures or threshold limits for catching athletes for AICAR despite advanced research.
It's like gatekeepers in place to control which athletes can win, or records need to be broken to sell stuff. Fishy business.
It's worse than that. WADA Labs cannot freely testify independently against any WADA Lab without risk. There is a "Code of Ethics" which states that a "laboratory should not engage in analytical activities or expert testimony that would intentionally question the integrity of the individual or the scientific validity of work performed in the antidoping program".
This makes it doubly difficult for athletes, who are expressly burdened with establishing that WADA Labs have done their testing with integrity and scientific validity cannot rely on experts from any WADA Labs to help prepare their defense.
A billion Euros in black market peds annually is anything but lacking "substance", and so is the existence of antidoping bodies whose role it is to try to prevent that - but fail to do so, as the scale of the practice shows.
"A billion (sic) Euros in black market peds (sic)" is woefully unsubstantiated. You refer to an unsourced, unattributed and unexplained quote from an unnamed narrator. This worldwide estimate surely covers major non-WADA sports, like American football, basketball, and baseball; worldwide sports and WADA sports, like soccer, weightlifting, bodybuilding, tennis, swimming, and cycling; athletic events like sprinting and throws and jumps; and non-sports and non-elite athletes, like health clubs, anti-aging clinics, local gyms, and high schools; and is not restricted to substances WADA puts on its banned lists. It may also include animals, like horses in racing, or animal shows, or agriculture, and medicines for third world countries procuring cheaper unauthorized generic versions of patented medicines. They didn't substantiate the allegation.
In these threads, we are mainly concerned with distance running, which would be a tiny fraction of that black market.
You refer to the "scale of the practice", but any estimate of a scale far beyond the 1-2% of analytical testing becomes pure speculation as the estimate goes higher.
The figure comes from an Al Jazeera investigation and was attributed to antidoping sources. If WADA had a different figure or disputed it it would have said so. Of course it wasn't only running but the point was that it is a massive world-wide trade in performance enhancing drugs. That it is known to be present in all sports only shows how absurd it is to somehow see a sport like distance running as an exception. Confidential athlete surveys show it isnt. Further, WADA groups t and f with cycling, bodybuilding and weightlifting for risk of doping. You haven't a clue.
The figure comes from an Al Jazeera investigation and was attributed to antidoping sources. If WADA had a different figure or disputed it it would have said so. Of course it wasn't only running but the point was that it is a massive world-wide trade in performance enhancing drugs. That it is known to be present in all sports only shows how absurd it is to somehow see a sport like distance running as an exception. Confidential athlete surveys show it isnt. Further, WADA groups t and f with cycling, bodybuilding and weightlifting for risk of doping. You haven't a clue.
Your imagination is going wild again. No, Al Jazeera did not attribute it to any source. They did not say who estimated the figure, nor explain what it represents. Since it doesn't implicate just WADA, there is no reason why WADA would feel any need, or even be able, to offer any correction.
No one (besides you) says that running is an exception. However, when it is conflated with all these other sports, all of your claims and ideas are rendered meaningless. No way to determine, even from unproven "confidential athlete surveys" which mixed men and women, and included walking, sprinting, throwing, jumping events, which fraction reliably represents distance running.
I have a feeling that contract is not enforceable in the state of California. A lawyer would know more. It's complicated if somebody signed it in another country and then did an interview in California. They might get blacklisted and not find work in their field but also escape legal consequences.
The figure comes from an Al Jazeera investigation and was attributed to antidoping sources. If WADA had a different figure or disputed it it would have said so. Of course it wasn't only running but the point was that it is a massive world-wide trade in performance enhancing drugs. That it is known to be present in all sports only shows how absurd it is to somehow see a sport like distance running as an exception. Confidential athlete surveys show it isnt. Further, WADA groups t and f with cycling, bodybuilding and weightlifting for risk of doping. You haven't a clue.
Your imagination is going wild again. No, Al Jazeera did not attribute it to any source. They did not say who estimated the figure, nor explain what it represents. Since it doesn't implicate just WADA, there is no reason why WADA would feel any need, or even be able, to offer any correction.
No one (besides you) says that running is an exception. However, when it is conflated with all these other sports, all of your claims and ideas are rendered meaningless. No way to determine, even from unproven "confidential athlete surveys" which mixed men and women, and included walking, sprinting, throwing, jumping events, which fraction reliably represents distance running.
Al Jazeera did say that it obtained the estimate from talking with those involved in the sport, including antidoping. But what does a "black market in banned peds that is estimated to be over a billion Euros" not "represent" to you? Just a few steroid users at your local gym? T and F, which obviously includes running, is grouped by WADA as amongst the worst doping offenders. Do you seriously think runners don't have the same ambitions and competitive attitudes as other athletes? You show again how clueless you are about sport. I don't think you have ever competed - you just follow it like your private porn on the internet; a source of unrealistic fantasies.
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Wavelights have existed since the '70's - but you obviously don't know that. However, they have only played a part in world records in the last 5 years. You don't know that either.
Wavelights have existed since the '70's - but you obviously don't know that. However, they have only played a part in world records in the last 5 years. You don't know that either.
Decades are not written in the way you do.
You could just give an exsmple where wavelights were used in the "'70's" - but you will not.
You have wrongly claimed a few WRs back in the day were set with wavelights. You are wrong - as so often.
Al Jazeera did say that it obtained the estimate from talking with those involved in the sport, including antidoping. But what does a "black market in banned peds that is estimated to be over a billion Euros" not "represent" to you? Just a few steroid users at your local gym? T and F, which obviously includes running, is grouped by WADA as amongst the worst doping offenders. Do you seriously think runners don't have the same ambitions and competitive attitudes as other athletes? You show again how clueless you are about sport. I don't think you have ever competed - you just follow it like your private porn on the internet; a source of unrealistic fantasies.
You need to rewatch the documentary to get your facts in order. Al Jazeera did not say "banned peds" -- that is you putting your own words in quotes.
In any case, you are so predictable, I already answered your question above: "This worldwide estimate surely covers major non-WADA sports, like American football, basketball, and baseball; worldwide sports and WADA sports, like soccer, weightlifting, bodybuilding, tennis, swimming, and cycling; athletic events like sprinting and throws and jumps; and non-sports and non-elite athletes, like health clubs, anti-aging clinics, local gyms, and high schools; and is not restricted to substances WADA puts on its banned lists. It may also include animals, like horses in racing, or animal shows, or agriculture, and medicines for third world countries procuring cheaper unauthorized generic versions of patented medicines."
Distance runners may have the same ambitions and attitudes, but the point is that you don't have any data relevant to the specific athletes in question, whether it is Shelby, or Kenyans, or just generically "sport". Your "billion Euros", when we exclude all these other non-WADA sports with more money and less testing, and all these non-athletics sports, and non-distance events, your "estimate" becomes some tiny fraction much less impressive to those able to put things in proper perspective.
Do you have a copy of the employment contract used in WADA labs?
What I refer to can be found in WADA's "International Standard for Laboratories (ISL)" in "ISL ANNEX A - CODE OF ETHICS FOR LABORATORIES and ABP LABORATORIES", particularly sections 3 and 4.
Compliance is a condition for WADA accreditation.
The athlete is burdened with showing that the labs comply with the WADA standards, but, unless it is compelled by the CAS, the athletes often have no access to the raw data being used to charge them (see Lawson's case), effectively no access to unpublished research, and effectively no access to any WADA Lab experts to help interpret the data, and the process used to obtain the data.