I think Nigerians understand English well enough to fill in a form.
Are you serious? All Nigerians? Only 60 million of 230 million Nigerians speak English. Nigerians whose first language is Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, creole languages etc? They have between 500 - 1000 languages.
Yeah English is used as a bridge but it is often not the first language, at all, nowhere close. English is used so people with different first languages can communicate. It isn't spoken everywhere, far from it.
Also, I said that it was a nightmare to fill in ADAMS if you are not comfortable with the language. It is, and that is a massive issue.
OH STOP WITH THE DAMN CRAP! EVERY PROFESSIONAL NIGERIAN ATHLETE KNOW ENGLISH WELL ENOUGH TO FILL OUT A DARN FORM.
There is no accident to three whereabouts failures. No "excuses" were accepted. It is a doper avoiding testers - which is why it is treated as a doping violation. Sure, she doped.
Yeah, there can be an accident to three whereabouts failures and it has happened A LOT, not just with regard to one athlete. Have you actually read the full report? That they tested her the very next day with regard to the second missed test? That she passed 14 tests that season? I am speaking purely with regard to the testing process not presence of PEDs. That the same happened again - that she made herself available the next day (actually within 12 hours this time). Those are two of the whereabouts failures.
(i) On 23 January 2020, in the afternoon, she called her Technical Manager Mr Righi to inform him that she would be travelling to Lagos on the same night, to reach Bahrain on the following day and that she would be providing him with the address of the Hotel in Lagos later on. (ii) She travelled by car and reached Lagos at night; when she got a “booking hotel” she sent the relevant address to Mr Righi; however, Mr Righi did not see her messages since (i) he was asleep, there being a “difference of 2 hours between Nigeria and Bahrain” and (ii) he was sick. (iii) Thereafter, she was “terrified” since she had lost her internet connection during the trip to Lagos and thus could not contact anyone (take into consideration that a lot of these areas have imperfect coverage). Therefore, when she reached the hotel in Lagos she “slept directly”. (iv) On the following morning, she found a missed call from an unknown number and called it; a DCO replied stating that he had been to the hotel in Abuja; she explained the situation and specified that she was available for testing in Lagos. (v) When Mr Righi saw the Athlete’s messages, he updated her Whereabouts Information indicating the address in Lagos and a new timeslot between 13:00 and 14:00; he suggested that she stay at the hotel in order to be available for testing. (vi) The Athlete stayed at the hotel in Lagos until 16:00 but nobody came to test her
On 16 April 2020, Mr Righi sent some further explanations for the Athlete’s 24 January Missed Test, pointing out that:
The Athlete sent him a text via WhatsApp on 23 January 2020 at 15:45 Nigerian time, saying “I’m going to Lagos today”; however, she had no internet connection and, thus, he received such message only at 2:25 Bahraini time, along with the address of the Continental Hotel in Lagos (“she saw that she hasn’t internet and her message is hold, then she calls me to inform me for her trip from Abuja to Lagos then Bahrain, that’s why I received (this whatsapp message at 2:25 AM on the day of 24th with another messages: when she got internet)”). (ii) He only saw the messages on the morning of 24 January 2020; he tried to contact the Athlete but she was disconnected (he later found out that she was asleep, after a tiring trip by car from Abuja to Lagos); he then proceeded to update the Athlete’s Whereabouts Information and moved the 60-minute timeslot from 6:00-7:00 to 13:00- 14:00; the Athlete sent him some further texts later in the afternoon, in which she blamed him for what happened and asked him why he did not update her Whereabouts Information; Mr Righi then called her and explained to her why he did not see her messages; he also told her that he had updated her Whereabouts Information and set a new timeslot from 13:00 to 14:00 and advised that she should remain in the hotel until 16:00.
There is a reason why the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal determined that she had not committed an ADRV with regard to the alleged filing failure (i.e. she had always entered 964 and when updated typed 954, basically it appears to be a typo that was then corrected).
I think that she uses PEDs, and the above decision was overturned by CAS, but there is a reason why the tribunal came to that decision.
Also, I feel like a lot of people don't appreciate the issues with regard to ADAMS. Can you fill in ADAMS in your third language? While moving around constantly but having to update it every day to reflect where you are? I know I would struggle to navigate it in say Arabic (which writes right to left, not left to right amongst the many issues people will encounter).
I think she uses PEDs and I made that clear but these things need to be done correctly - and I think a lot of the time people do not realise how SOME of the whereabouts failures come about when people are travelling all of the time. It's easy to say 'oh, set it at 6-7am at your home address' but when you are talking about international athletes in competition it does not work like that.
You do know that none of that convinced WADA? She doped.
There is no accident to three whereabouts failures. No "excuses" were accepted. It is a doper avoiding testers - which is why it is treated as a doping violation. Sure, she doped.
Maybe Wada noticed the constant moving and attempts to change her whereabouts on the very day that she was moving on, and that was a factor in not accepting her excuses for missing whereabouts?
You do know that none of that convinced WADA? She doped.
She was first cleared by AIU Disciplinary Tribunal. It was CAS which upheld appeal from WA and WADA - and one of three panel members was against the decision.
It wasn't easy case, she was tested a lot, also just after her whereabouts failures which were controversial. She wasn't doped in my opinion.
You do know that none of that convinced WADA? She doped.
She was first cleared by AIU Disciplinary Tribunal. It was CAS which upheld appeal from WA and WADA - and one of three panel members was against the decision.
It wasn't easy case, she was tested a lot, also just after her whereabouts failures which were controversial. She wasn't doped in my opinion.
Maybe Wada noticed the constant moving and attempts to change her whereabouts on the very day that she was moving on, and that was a factor in not accepting her excuses for missing whereabouts?
Maybe she was doping and wanted to avoid the testers? Yep. That's why her failures were categorized as an antidoping offence.
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It's amazing that in such a dirty sport - WADA puts it up there with the hulks in bodybuilding and weightlifting, and pro cycling (of course!) - that fans still want to believe an athlete pinged for a doping violation is "innocent". Naser is just one of many.
I don't think it's going to be Sydney M-L, she's just not fast enough over 200 meters to run a 47. Go back and watch Koch's world record on youtube, she goes through the 200 meter mark in about 22.2 seconds, that's .2 seconds faster than Sydney's PR for the 200. It's hard to say because Sydney competes so rarely that we never get a really good idea of what her speed really is, but there's nothing in her history that indicates that she's capable of the sub 11 or sub 22 100/200 speed she would need to go after Koch's record and if she did have that kind of speed, Kersee would certainly have her running the open 400 instead of the 400H. It's going to take another woman who can run the 200 in 21.7 or faster and that's a very short list of women, only a few are actually competing right now. Shericka Jackson or Gabby Thomas seem like the most likely candidates currently competing or Abby Steiner if she gets a little bit faster. For me Shericka Jackson seems like the only current woman that has the tools to go after this record.
Agreed. The 47.60 can be debated until you watch the video. At that point I don't see how it's possible to speculate that anyone will break it. It looks like a totally different dimension. The other record that strikes me that way is Eddwards' triple jump. That was like a horizontal catapult. I never pay any attention when that record is speculated as vulnerable.
Sydney is simply not fast enough. Nobody is going to even split a sub 47.60. They might tease in the 48s but only a fool thinks another half second or full second is available. This isn't hurdles where an aggressive stride pattern totally changes the pace of the first 7 barriers. Mboma was the only recent threat to break 47.60. Shericka Jackson can't do it because she's already dropped from 400 into the short sprints and will never regain the motivation or energy to move back up and endure all the pain and sacrifice of 400 training.
Sydney would have to drop 3.1 seconds from her 400 hurdles world record. And at this stage those barriers don't cost her anywhere near 3.1 seconds. Not remotely close to that. More like 2 seconds.
Bol is a bit different because at 6-1 she's so tall and leggy she can't optimize over the hurdles like the 5-9 Sydney. Bol might be able to run sub 49 flat but never get her 400 hurdles time as low as it should be, given overall speed and talent level.
You are an excited moron with your three posts. BTW, all Americans on this forum don't like Naser as she is too fast for them, they prefer slower American losers.
Of course she was, no matter how often you repeat the opposite.
Read the code: she was banned for violation 2.4, and rule 1 states:
"ARTICLE 1 DEFINITION OF DOPING Doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the antidoping rule violations set forth in Article 2.1 through Article 2.11 of the Code."
Get it? She was banned for doping. Article 2.4 is explicitly included in the doping definition, for an obvious reason.
oh theyll get broken,by very juiced up women.Same with the short sprint records.I think the bouncy track and shoe thing is a bit of a myth,unless you really believe koch would have run 46.6 on todays new tracks.unlikely.
I think if you teleported super-juiced Koch to Tokyo 2020 and had her run on that surface and allowed her to train in cushioned sprint spikes (not race because that makes no sense in sprinting) I think we could reasonably expect her to run in the low 47's. I think she could have run somewhere in the 47.1X-47.2X range, but I agree that the 46's just seem very unlikely no matter what.
The Canberra track was brand new, rekotan, so not a sprint track, but a slight advantage of 600m elevation.
Are you serious? All Nigerians? Only 60 million of 230 million Nigerians speak English. Nigerians whose first language is Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, creole languages etc? They have between 500 - 1000 languages.
Yeah English is used as a bridge but it is often not the first language, at all, nowhere close. English is used so people with different first languages can communicate. It isn't spoken everywhere, far from it.
Also, I said that it was a nightmare to fill in ADAMS if you are not comfortable with the language. It is, and that is a massive issue.
OH STOP WITH THE DAMN CRAP! EVERY PROFESSIONAL NIGERIAN ATHLETE KNOW ENGLISH WELL ENOUGH TO FILL OUT A DARN FORM.
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