"Egregious" is a strong word given these facts. How long, if at all, are the testers obligated to wait? You've got to have sympathy for these guys who are required cede their freedom of movement. No wonder Nuguse wants to go to dental school after the Olympics.
Nuguse wants to go to dental school to obtain a marketable skill he can milk beyond next week.
Good to have a backup plan if you get banned from your career for 2-4 years.
Katir claimed his fiancee was feeling unwell and he had to book a flight to visit her that day in Lisbon. Except the flight receipts showed he had actually booked the flight two days earlier.
I read this differently, i.e., "He had to book a flight (which he did two days earlier) to visit her that day in Lisbon."
Thus what he stated was the truth, and simply a matter of not misunderstanding what he said, not a lie.
Correct, I agree with your judgement dear Jonathan!!!
In fact, Mo was lucky to get away for fraud on the 1st missed test already. If I were AIU he would be banned based on the 1st missed test!
So I would say Mo is a proven doper despite what rekrunner would say otherwise!
Fraud is not an anti-doping violation.
Looks like he admitted to the three whereabouts failures.
You are welcome to believe your ILLUSIONS.
The notion that "only a positive test confirms doping" is a dangerous illusion. In Katir's case, evidence strongly suggests a deliberate ploy to undermine anti-doping efforts.
Each Whereabouts failure transformed Katir into a high-priority target for suspicion. Anti-doping authorities have limited resources and cannot afford to ignore athletes deliberately subverting the system. This alone explains intensified scrutiny.
Let's look at the 'Why' question: Repeated violations raise the fundamental question, "Why would an innocent athlete desperately evade doping control?" His actions invite doubt and trigger a greater focus on his conduct.
We don't have access to Katir's Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) values, but WADA does. He claims no failed doping tests, yet we cannot confirm why he faced increased testing outside of competitions. If WADA observed ABP deviations – even ones not egregious enough for a direct violation – this further justifies their aggressive pursuit of further testing.
Katir s missed tests, alone, are serious, but combined with uncredible excuses, timeslot alterations, and poor responsiveness, his actions paint a pattern of willful deception – not accidental missteps. WADA and AIU, dedicated to safeguarding clean sport, repeatedly gave him the chance to defend himself. How did he respond? With lies and evasion, undermining Katir’s claims of simple "irresponsibility."
This isn't unprecedented.Past doping scandals revealed how athletes employ a playbook of deceit, including the very behaviour witnessed with Katir.
Dismissing these parallels solely due to the absence of one type of positive test would be naive.
While acknowledging the lack of a traditional positive test result, even you rekrunner should be able to see that the totality of the evidence points to Katir as an athlete with something to hide: Katir's consistent subversion of the Whereabouts system casts doubt on his commitment to transparency.
Katir's continuous and extreme "irresponsibility," when given opportunities for corrective action, strains credibility.
Poor rekrunner will have to put in a double shift tomorrow with all the damage control that is urgently needed. Let's hope his Spanish is good enough.
I looked again at what WADA calls whereabouts failures. It is a missed test or a failure to accurately file your whereabouts information.
Looks like he admitted to not understanding how to do that correctly when plans change.
Let's review that:
1st Whereabouts Failure (February 28, 2023) DCO Attempt: February 28, 2023 AIU Notification of Failure: March 2, 2023 Katir's Explanation Deadline: March 16, 2023 AIU Decision to Confirm Failure: March 31, 2023 Deadline for Katir's Administrative Review: April 14, 2023 (No review requested)
2nd Whereabouts Failure (April 3, 2023) DCO Attempt: April 3, 2023 AIU Notification of Failure: April 6, 2023 Katir's Explanation Deadline: April 20, 2023 AIU Decision to Confirm Failure: April 28,2023 Deadline for Katir's Administrative Review: May 12, 2023 (No review requested until December 21, 2023 - which was exceptionally allowed after confirmation of 3rd Failure) AIU Rejects Administrative Review: January 18, 2024
3rd Whereabouts Failure (October 10, 2023) DCO Attempt: October 10, 2023 AIU Notification of Failure: October 17, 2023 Katir's Explanation Deadline: October 31, 2023 AIU Decision to Confirm Failure: December 12, 2023 Deadline for Katir's Administrative Review: December 26, 2023 (No review requested)
Disciplinary Proceedings AIU Notice of Allegation: February 7, 2024 Katir's Admission of Violation: February 13, 2024
If Katir genuinely misunderstood how to update his whereabouts, his immediate reaction would be to file an administrative review for each failure (would he even have a second one, let alone, a third?). His failure to do so until much later, and only after the third violation, strongly suggests he knew he wasn't in compliance and feared further scrutiny.
Katir claimed his fiancee was feeling unwell and he had to book a flight to visit her that day in Lisbon. Except the flight receipts showed he had actually booked the flight two days earlier.
I read this differently, i.e., "He had to book a flight (which he did two days earlier) to visit her that day in Lisbon."
Thus what he stated was the truth, and simply a matter of not misunderstanding what he said, not a lie.
Did he actually take the flight? Any proof provided, airport receipts etc.... ?
I bet he didn't and just had tickets as an excuse.....
First missed test (2/28/23): Testers showed up to his house that evening (outside his 60-minute window) but he was in Lisbon....
anyone know what the rules are regarding the 60-minute window? how come it counted as a missed test outside of the window? or is it because he was abroad anyway...
Looks like he admitted to the three whereabouts failures.
You are welcome to believe your ILLUSIONS.
The notion that "only a positive test confirms doping" is a dangerous illusion. In Katir's case, evidence strongly suggests a deliberate ploy to undermine anti-doping efforts.
Each Whereabouts failure transformed Katir into a high-priority target for suspicion. Anti-doping authorities have limited resources and cannot afford to ignore athletes deliberately subverting the system. This alone explains intensified scrutiny.
Let's look at the 'Why' question: Repeated violations raise the fundamental question, "Why would an innocent athlete desperately evade doping control?" His actions invite doubt and trigger a greater focus on his conduct.
We don't have access to Katir's Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) values, but WADA does. He claims no failed doping tests, yet we cannot confirm why he faced increased testing outside of competitions. If WADA observed ABP deviations – even ones not egregious enough for a direct violation – this further justifies their aggressive pursuit of further testing.
Katir s missed tests, alone, are serious, but combined with uncredible excuses, timeslot alterations, and poor responsiveness, his actions paint a pattern of willful deception – not accidental missteps. WADA and AIU, dedicated to safeguarding clean sport, repeatedly gave him the chance to defend himself. How did he respond? With lies and evasion, undermining Katir’s claims of simple "irresponsibility."
This isn't unprecedented.Past doping scandals revealed how athletes employ a playbook of deceit, including the very behaviour witnessed with Katir.
Dismissing these parallels solely due to the absence of one type of positive test would be naive.
While acknowledging the lack of a traditional positive test result, even you rekrunner should be able to see that the totality of the evidence points to Katir as an athlete with something to hide: Katir's consistent subversion of the Whereabouts system casts doubt on his commitment to transparency.
Katir's continuous and extreme "irresponsibility," when given opportunities for corrective action, strains credibility.
The notion that "only a positive test confirms doping" is a dangerous illusion. In Katir's case, evidence strongly suggests a deliberate ploy to undermine anti-doping efforts.
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Let's look at the 'Why' question: Repeated violations raise the fundamental question, "Why would an innocent athlete desperately evade doping control?"
Well of course you are correct. But you need to realize that you are talking to rekrunner here. For him, even a positive test (Kiprop, Houlihan) and even admitting to doping (countless Kenyans) don't mean anything in his imaginary opposite world.
First missed test (2/28/23): Testers showed up to his house that evening (outside his 60-minute window) but he was in Lisbon....
anyone know what the rules are regarding the 60-minute window? how come it counted as a missed test outside of the window? or is it because he was abroad anyway...
They changed the rules a few years ago. Something similar happened to the shotputter Nick Ponzio. He took a last minute invite to go to Cork City sports in Ireland and he was supposed to be in Italy at training camp or something. they didn't even try to test him and he got a filing failure.
So if Mo said he was in Spain and he was actually in Lisbon its a miss.
I don't know what the limit would be if for instance Mo said he was in Madrid and he was actually in Barcelona testers come outside the window do they get out google maps to see if the journey was possible in the time interval?
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I’ve always wondered what would happen if doping control came to you while you were out for a long run: You set your overnight address to your home and start running (outside of the 1h-window). Shortly after departing, Anti doping rings at your door. They try to call you repeatedly. You didn’t bring your phone on the run. 2h later you come back. The Doping control has already left, assuming you made a filling error. What happens now?