1. She has a crafty team so it wouldn’t surprise me if she was exonerated
2.She was quick to make an announcement to control the narrative.
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Well What Do You Know wrote:
bah. wrote:
any elite athlete would have to be an absolute idiot to not dope.
It’s like refusing good money out of some sense of principle; whoever does that?
People with principles.
Exactly, the idiot sheep of society.
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liar you are wrote:
Left Said Fred wrote:
Assuming they’re not being wildly irresponsible or willfully evading a test, a lot of this can be put down to doping control officers who choose to not give the athletes a ring when they arrive at the location for the test but don’t make initial contact with them.
As I wrote on an earlier thread, an athlete could be in their hotel room during their testing window and because the doping control officer has no keycard to grant them access to the lift, the tester can either choose ring the athlete’s mobile phone or the hardline in the room and ask them to meet them at the hotel reception — or — the same tester can choose not to ring them at all and simply wait in hotel reception without attempting further contact. After an hour of not seeing the athlete in the hotel reception (because the athlete is waiting in their room as they designated on their whereabouts), the tester marks the athlete as having missed an out of competition test.
I haven’t a clue on Amusan’s particulars but the above scenario has and does happen.
this is BS. those situations never happen.
regardless, if you are a pro with 2 missed tests, you wait every day on your front porch for a potential drug tester. you don't risk a multi-year ban when your only job is to compete in that sport.
I wonder how many of the missed tests are when the athlete is at home. I would guess it might be when they're away from home. The world cross country championships were in Australia this year which is something like a 20 hour flight from the UK. How would that work? You can't be tested on the plane I would imagine. And planes and trains are often delayed. If you're travelling by car you could be stuck in traffic on a motorway because there was a crash ahead, the road is closed and you'll be there for hours. There are a number of reasons why you might not be in your hotel or wherever for your testing hour. Are you able to contact the testers before your hour to say you can't make it and don't do a random test today? And if you are what's to stop a doper doing that on the days he microdoses or whatever they do?
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Yes you can update. Yes your missed test gets excused if it is really not your fault, such as caused by a traffic jam with no cell phone coverage (which is why some athletes have tried that excuse but failed when they couldn't prove the alleged traffic jam).
Microdosing - when done right at night - is always safe (which is why so many do it). In case of long flights, microdosers can safely dose a bit more than usual (say, 15 hours of guaranteed no testing instead of the daily 7 hours).
Hope this helps.
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Got the doper deltoids...
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Many folks around here don’t seem to understand what the sport is: it’s about running the fastest without getting caught over the limit, for the most part at least, granting that there are some drugs that in any concentration, if detected, would result in an AAF, but there are many others for which WADA tells you exactly how much you can dope and still be fine.
So you’d have to be an idiot to be in the sport but refuse to play the game out of some principles and shpinciples shîte.
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This makes it funny to me how every whereabouts failure is a freak accident and WADA's fault or AIUs fault. Every athlete can't believe it, they were one minute away! They forgot! etc. etc. They're more likely to be evading dozens of testing periods. They also get to pick the location! How hard can this possibly be? You're a world record holder and your entire life and livelihood depend on being where you say you'll be for an hour every few weeks/months and you fail 3 times in a year. To the gills!
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Blessing and Tobi (with Saruni for good measure).. lot's of former Miner's in the news here
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Of course she is not clean
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Because they are dirty........
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ZatopekWasTheLastCleanMedalist wrote:
This makes it funny to me how every whereabouts failure is a freak accident and WADA's fault or AIUs fault. Every athlete can't believe it, they were one minute away! They forgot! etc. etc. They're more likely to be evading dozens of testing periods. They also get to pick the location! How hard can this possibly be? You're a world record holder and your entire life and livelihood depend on being where you say you'll be for an hour every few weeks/months and you fail 3 times in a year. To the gills!
Agreed. And if I was on my 2nd missed test, I'd be sitting on my front porch during my entire 60 minute testing window every day to make sure I didn't get a 3rd. Either insane negligence, or deliberately evading testers.
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Seb Coe.. wrote:
Agreed. And if I was on my 2nd missed test, I'd be sitting on my front porch during my entire 60 minute testing window every day to make sure I didn't get a 3rd. Either insane negligence, or deliberately evading testers.
Exactly, even if I had diarrhea, I’d just open up my back door on my front porch.
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Legend420 wrote:
Why do professional athletes with managers/agents get charged with whereabouts violations? Shouldn't this be an easy thing for athletes to follow or am I missing something?
I would love to hear a re set on this too. I have heard its extremely easy to miss a test and I have heard you really have to space or be cheating. TrackJenny explained it pretty well:
"She recalled a story about former training partner Emma Coburn, who once had to leave in the middle of shopping for a wedding dress in order to get tested.
“Hustle, get your ass over there and get tested!” Simpson says. “It’s part of your job.”Good article:
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She will need what Gabby Thomas had...proof/witnesses that there was some negligence by the DCO. It's probably not a great sign that she didn't lay out any hint of that in her public statement.
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Whilst sound logic, there's certainly a difference in this probability in cases where they are trying to hide something and cases where they're not. Especially considering when you miss a first test, they might try and test you more frequently from then (e.g. Paul Chelimo admitted to having 2 missed tests at some point, and if you check the USADA test history, he has the most tests of every athlete this year so far).
E.g. Randolph Ross accumulated 3 missed tests in a very short time period whilst moving to Tennessee, even though he was getting tested by the NCAA on those same days.40 -
Well What Do You Know wrote:
Huangdi wrote:
i think the timing was legit. something was probably wrong with the wind gauge though.
A staffer at Track and Field News talked to a videographer who filmed the race. He counted the numbers of frames in his video of the race from start to finish and determined that the time was accurate.
But a faulty wind gauge wouldn't surprise me.
My uncles friends cousin talked to a guy...
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It's VERY easy and if they have 2 0r 3 they are cheating...period. It's in your face and people still give them the benefit of the doubt. It is hard to miss 3 tests!
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Bruinboy wrote:
It's VERY easy and if they have 2 0r 3 they are cheating...period. It's in your face and people still give them the benefit of the doubt. It is hard to miss 3 tests!
But they aren't dopers. Especially if they are Kenyans. Rekrunner says so.
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Armstronglivs wrote:
Bruinboy wrote:
It's VERY easy and if they have 2 0r 3 they are cheating...period. It's in your face and people still give them the benefit of the doubt. It is hard to miss 3 tests!
But they aren't dopers. Especially if they are Kenyans. Rekrunner says so.
It's 3:30 a.m. where you live, and you are on letsrun talking about doping and rekrunner...
You are a sad old man.
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86 mexico wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
But they aren't dopers. Especially if they are Kenyans. Rekrunner says so.
It's 3:30 a.m. where you live, and you are on letsrun talking about doping and rekrunner...
You are a sad old man.
Totally, this site and rekrunner probably gives him the only meaning and purpose he has left in life. I’ve long blocked him, which is a pretty convenient feature on this site.
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