Quite easy if you are at the mercy of flight companies and across time zones and they check your social media.
Soccer won’t have testing out of work time or locations as multi million $ players will be banned in numbers.Soccer players union have protected their members.
Quite easy if you are at the mercy of flight companies and across time zones and they check your social media.
Soccer won’t have testing out of work time or locations as multi million $ players will be banned in numbers.Soccer players union have protected their members.
Amusan claims she is a clean athlete and says there is going to be an arbitration hearing before Worlds to see if she is banned or not. She set the WR of 12.12 in the 100m hurdles last year and won the world title in this event. Timing is pretty interesting since Amusan just competed today in Hungary and won in 12.35.
This unfortunately goes into the Rashid Ramzi, Asbel Kiprop, Nijel Amos, Christian Coleman special filing cabinet of "yeah no sh-t".
The first thing to understand here is that this whereabouts stuff is not really difficult to live with for athletes and isn't an issue for 99% of athletes who all play under these conditions. WADA/AIU don't have the resources to be coming after you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and here is the other thing - you get to pick and choose the time and location and it doesn't just have to be a training time or venue. Missing 3 "calls" from the testers is way harder than being present for at least one (I believe Simpson alluded to this and she is right).
Amusan.
4 consistent years between 12.42 and 12.68, comes out and runs 12.12 in Eugene. Even in 2022 those results are bizarre outliers if you check out her 2022 results on her WA profile. I get it - "she peaked for the Worlds that's what she should be doing" and that's a fair point - the question is to what degree is that plausible. Even from 12.40, 12.12 represents a massive 2.25% jump. If Jakob was to come out and run 3.23.0 (an equivalent jump) in Budapest I think even the most ardent fan would find that impossible to believe.
When you couple this (unfortunately) with what appears to be a problem in Nigerian track and field with doping amongst their sprinters, it kind of hard to believe anything else.
- Blessing Okagbare got 10 years in 2021 for "organized doping"
- Nzubechi Nwokocha is provisionally suspended and is going to banned as her results from last season (2022) are now being nullified.
- Divine Oduduru on the mens side - done in Feb of this year
Why is Tobi Amusan missing tests? I don't think this needs a lot more analysis really.
Is there a precedent for stripping an athlete of a WR due to whereabouts violations? Wondering if someone could explain what happens to Amusan’s time from 2022 worlds if she does end up getting banned.
Is there a precedent for stripping an athlete of a WR due to whereabouts violations? Wondering if someone could explain what happens to Amusan’s time from 2022 worlds if she does end up getting banned.
Simpson explains everything she has to do to file her whereabouts information and doesn't believe it's that much of a burden: "If you miss three tests, it’s either because you’re cheating or because you’re an idiot."
This unfortunately goes into the Rashid Ramzi, Asbel Kiprop, Nijel Amos, Christian Coleman special filing cabinet of "yeah no sh-t".
The first thing to understand here is that this whereabouts stuff is not really difficult to live with for athletes and isn't an issue for 99% of athletes who all play under these conditions. WADA/AIU don't have the resources to be coming after you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and here is the other thing - you get to pick and choose the time and location and it doesn't just have to be a training time or venue. Missing 3 "calls" from the testers is way harder than being present for at least one (I believe Simpson alluded to this and she is right).
Amusan.
4 consistent years between 12.42 and 12.68, comes out and runs 12.12 in Eugene. Even in 2022 those results are bizarre outliers if you check out her 2022 results on her WA profile. I get it - "she peaked for the Worlds that's what she should be doing" and that's a fair point - the question is to what degree is that plausible. Even from 12.40, 12.12 represents a massive 2.25% jump. If Jakob was to come out and run 3.23.0 (an equivalent jump) in Budapest I think even the most ardent fan would find that impossible to believe.
When you couple this (unfortunately) with what appears to be a problem in Nigerian track and field with doping amongst their sprinters, it kind of hard to believe anything else.
- Blessing Okagbare got 10 years in 2021 for "organized doping"
- Nzubechi Nwokocha is provisionally suspended and is going to banned as her results from last season (2022) are now being nullified.
- Divine Oduduru on the mens side - done in Feb of this year
Why is Tobi Amusan missing tests? I don't think this needs a lot more analysis really.
Hard to really argue with this given the information we have. Up until this point the greatest thing given credibility to the 12.40-12.1x improvement and consistent 12.2-3 type status as an athlete was her testing record. Given Nigeria’s scrutiny and her being an AIU athlete that was somewhat robust. But if she’s skipping tests, that knocks down that aspect quite a bit. Will be interesting to read the full details when they emerge.
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Jenny Simpson explained it years ago. If you miss three tests you are either stupid or cheating.
sucks for someone likeGabby Thomas because it’s hard to believe she’s stupid and went to Harvard. Although she did improve a lot after her missed tests.
however, listening to American podcasts it’s hard for people to really understand the rules. All the talk about whether Coleman could have got back with a minute to spare etc…the rule is you have to be there for the entire hour you tell them. If you already have two missed tests if you aren’t there for the third one you obviously are very unprofessional or don’t care.
Given the tests are random and that they could happen on any given day, the odds of an athlete missing 3 tests over the course of a year and those be the only 3 times they've been not where they're meant to be is mathematically improbable.
Whenever an athlete has 3 whereabouts failures, you can pretty much guarantee they've been elsewhere many, many more times than that.
They aren't always "elsewhere." They are often at home but just don't answer the door. That counts as a whereabouts failure, even though they aren't actually somewhere else.
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...
FYI, Track and Field News is NOT your "uncles friends cousin."
Given the tests are random and that they could happen on any given day, the odds of an athlete missing 3 tests over the course of a year and those be the only 3 times they've been not where they're meant to be is mathematically improbable.
Whenever an athlete has 3 whereabouts failures, you can pretty much guarantee they've been elsewhere many, many more times than that.
They aren't always "elsewhere." They are often at home but just don't answer the door. That counts as a whereabouts failure, even though they aren't actually somewhere else.
Are you capable of grasping the difference between missed tests and filling errors ?
Amusan claims she is a clean athlete and says there is going to be an arbitration hearing before Worlds to see if she is banned or not. She set the WR of 12.12 in the 100m hurdles last year and won the world title in this event. Timing is pretty interesting since Amusan just competed today in Hungary and won in 12.35.
Amusan claims she is a clean athlete and says there is going to be an arbitration hearing before Worlds to see if she is banned or not. She set the WR of 12.12 in the 100m hurdles last year and won the world title in this event. Timing is pretty interesting since Amusan just competed today in Hungary and won in 12.35.
