Ross got dinged extra for the tampering charge. It would have only been 1 year if it was whereabouts alone.
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NotThatHard wrote:
If your career depends on dosing something right, would t you make sure to do it right every time!?
Ha! Freudian slip?
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Hot Takes wrote:
^^^ He's definitely guilty of forging the email,
The point of whereabouts is to make sure athletes show for tests. Dirty athletes more likely to skip tests. Forging makes it worse.
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Bottom line: Tennessee athletic officials should be worried. Was NC A&T's success based on a sham and terrible NCAA Drug testing ???
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slow at 75 wrote:
Bottom line: Tennessee athletic officials should be worried. Was NC A&T's success based on a sham and terrible NCAA Drug testing ???
That's the problem with cheating. Even if it was just Ross cheating on his own, now everyone is going to questions all his old teammates, and his father.
Deserved, or not? Who knows.
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Hot Takes wrote:
If you read what he said in the University of Tennessee article, he doesn't actually seem guilty. His first whereabouts failure was legit, he was dumb and missed a test and then didn't get tested. His second one was at the NCAA championships, he didn't update it there, people showed up to test him in North Carolina and he wasn't there, but he was in Eugene and got tested there by different people. So he still took a test that day, but not the one in North Carolina. And then the third failure was due to him moving from North Carolina to Tennessee. USADA got the updated address and tested him in Tennessee. The next day AIU didn't have his updated address and showed up to his North Carolina address and he wasn't there, because he lives in Tennessee now... So people showed up three times to test him and he wasn't there, but two of those times he was somewhere else also getting tested. So really there was only one day where people were trying to test him and he didn't get tested. Crappy situation. It would be really annoying to have to constantly update your whereabouts. I have a feeling that NBA/NFL/MLB players do not update their whereabouts like this.
Yeah, I think this guy is innocent. WTF AIU. Also, he gets double the sentence of Christian Coleman? I'm anti-doping, but I can't go along with this.
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C/M Runner wrote:
Ross got dinged extra for the tampering charge. It would have only been 1 year if it was whereabouts alone.
email tampering:
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Supertramp wrote:
That's the problem with cheating. Even if it was just Ross cheating on his own, now everyone is going to questions all his old teammates, and his father.
LOL. This is more like father like son:
for using banned performance enhancing drugs, including anabolic agents and hormones
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After reading the T&FN article I feel a lot of sympathy for Ross. To me the account had the ring of truth about it. Is it hard to imagine that a 21-year old juggling, school, transferring, and NCAA and international competition, might occasionally mess up their whereabouts reporting?
People I've talked to who are in the testing system have told me the same thing -- that it's easy to rack up whereabouts failures when you're in school, competing, traveling, finals, all the rest of it.
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Excellent news! Nothing worse than cheaters, liars and frauds ruining an otherwise great sport. Throw out the trash.
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NC A&T program has been tarnished for me. I kind of thought something was off but didn't think much of it since drug cheating doesn't happen until after college. This may open up another Pandora's box.
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Another cheater bites the dust. Good.
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Nike-shod athlete juicing. Shocking. How often does this happen? Couldn't have seen it coming....
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Dust biter wrote:
Another cheater bites the dust. Good.
You are everything wrong with the sport. Go watch chess or something.
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fwef43 wrote:
They ought to just have a passive system using an air tag, phone gps, or some similar technology so they can locate the athlete anytime they wish. Allow the athletes to opt in to such a system if they want.
This seems like a great idea - does anyone know why we don't do this?
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If its a feel good story, odds are they are cheating, sad to say.
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Seems like a pretty reasonable story. It is a big ask to have a 21 year old log where they are every single night during the season. Programs with big funding have people that do this for the athletes, not so much for NC A&T.
I feel bad for Ross. Always liked him. Hell of an athlete.
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NCRunnerFan wrote:
It is a big ask to have a 21 year old log where they are every single night during the season.
LOL. He is an Olympic gold medal winner, not your average 21 year old party goer. Aside from that, he missed three tests within 65 days. Ridiculous.
Those were all in Q2/2022; USADA says they tested him four times in that quarter. Statistically speaking, he must have been absent a lot more days than those three!
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Muller's Ratchet wrote:
After reading the T&FN article I feel a lot of sympathy for Ross. To me the account had the ring of truth about it. Is it hard to imagine that a 21-year old juggling, school, transferring, and NCAA and international competition, might occasionally mess up their whereabouts reporting?
People I've talked to who are in the testing system have told me the same thing -- that it's easy to rack up whereabouts failures when you're in school, competing, traveling, finals, all the rest of it.
How are whereabouts updated? Is it just sending a text or email? Wouldn't that just be a phone click away?
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If it was mentioned on this thread already I missed it, but they did pull Ross out of consideration for the Bowerman award.
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