2. Mr Mohamed Katir is a 25-year-old Spanish middle-distance runner and an InternationalLevel Athlete for the purposes of the ADR (the “Athlete").1 7. In this instance, the Athlete has had three Whereabouts Failures in the twelve-month period beginning on 28 February 2023, specifically: (i) a Filing Failure on 28 February 2023; (ii) a Missed Test/Filing Failure on 3 April 2023; and (iii) a Missed Test/Filing Failure on 10 October 2023. 8. In summary, on 28 February 2023 at 20:10, a Doping Control Officer (“DCO”) attended an address in Murcia, Spain that was indicated in the Athlete’s Whereabouts information to be his overnight accommodation for that date (the “Home Address”) and met the Athlete’s father who informed the DCO that the Athlete was not present as he had travelled to Portugal. The DCO called the Athlete who confirmed that he was indeed in Lisbon, Portugal for a few days and that he would return to Spain on 2 March 2023. 9. On 2 March 2023, the AIU notified the Athlete of an apparent Filing Failure on 28 February 2023 and requested his explanation for such by no later than 16 March 2023. 10. On 9 March 2023, the Athlete submitted his explanation for the Filing Failure to the AIU. In summary, the Athlete asserted the following: 10.1. he had been present at the Home Address during his 60-minute time slot (07:00-08:00) on 28 February 2023; 10.2. at some time after 08:30 on 28 February 2023, the Athlete received a call from his fiancée asking him to visit her because she was feeling unwell, and he immediately booked a flight to Lisbon (Portugal) and updated his Whereabouts information for the following day to reflect his stay in Portugal.11. On 29 March 2023, after repeated requests from the AIU on 22 and 28 March 2023, the Athlete provided the AIU with a copy of his booking confirmation for the flight to Portugal on 28 February 2023. According to that confirmation when it was finally received, the flight to Portugal had in fact been booked on 26 February 2023 i.e., two (2) days before the Athlete’s departure, and not on the day of the attempt as the Athlete had previously explained. 26. In summary, on 10 October 2023, a DCO attended the Home Address specified as the location for the Athlete’s 60-minute time slot between 19:20 and 20:20 for that day but was unable to locate him for Testing. The DCO was informed by the Athlete’s father that the Athlete was currently training about 30 minutes away from the Home Address. The Athlete’s father informed the DCO that he had attempted to reach the Athlete by phone but that the Athlete was not responding. The DCO remained at the Home Address until the end of the time slot but the Athlete did not return during that time.
You don't LIKE to think about it, but you will have to. Cole Hocker isn't fresh outta college like in 2021, last time he had a huge PR jump in an Olympic final.
This time, not only another huge PR jump in an Olympic final, he's probably the first in history to go straight from 3:30 to 3:27. And that's a low 3:27. Everyone with a faster PB than him - El G, Lagat, Kiprop, etc - hit 3:28 or 3:29 somewhere along the way.
Perhaps he's just one of the best BIG race runners. He brings it when it counts!
Do you even know how drugs work? If they were juicing, the result would have been similar at Prefontaine. There is no magic pill to take just before the race to cut 3 seconds off your time. Peaking is everything.
No Craig has a point. The 2 Americans Nuguse and Hocker have something very very very fishy going on about them!!!!
Both suddenly running 3:27 after 2 rounds and 4.5 days?????? And nowhere near both the talent level of KERR and Jakob nor their kicking abilities? Fisher was the same fishy!!!! It runs throughout the 2024 American distance men's team!!!! I dunno about the women, no comments on that. I don't follow women's distance as closely.
AEngels is a washed old dog who never achieved anything of note in his career. Hope he was working part time in a supermarket so he has something to show for wasting the last 10 years of his life
Do you even know how drugs work? If they were juicing, the result would have been similar at Prefontaine. There is no magic pill to take just before the race to cut 3 seconds off your time. Peaking is everything.
If you're juiced to the gills, do you A) blow everyone out at Pre and raise suspicion and the competition's awareness ahead of the biggest event of the year or B) give a good effort at Pre to satisfy contractual obligations while continuing to train heavy
Personally, and this is a general comment more than a reflection of Hocker's performance: I remember a time when athletes looked tired after running fast. Heaving chests during post-race interviews, gasping. You see that so much less these days, and that can't all be down to the shoes and nutrition. Something's going on.
No Craig has a point. The 2 Americans Nuguse and Hocker have something very very very fishy going on about them!!!!
Both suddenly running 3:27 after 2 rounds and 4.5 days?????? And nowhere near both the talent level of KERR and Jakob nor their kicking abilities? Fisher was the same fishy!!!! It runs throughout the 2024 American distance men's team!!!! I dunno about the women, no comments on that. I don't follow women's distance as closely.
Khamface, do I need to ban you again?!?
ALRIGHTY, what do you want me to give you dear mod!!!!
You want me to say I LOVE ALBERTO SALAZAR RIGHT!!!!!
Hocker and Nuguse just finished 1 and 3 in the 1500m and 30 minutes later Engels reposts a Michael Phelps tweet: "If you test positive, you should never be allowed to come back and compete again, cut and dry... I believe in one and done."
Shots fired??
Hmmm...
As much as I agree with the "one and done", why is Engels reposting it? and was the post in response to Hocker and Nuguse's run? Craig seems like a good dude (I don't know him), from what I've heard.
Let's wait for the full story before bashing the sh^t out of him.
The Irony, An athlete who used to be part of the Oregon Project group is commenting about how we should have a life time ban for positive tests is a joke
Do you even know how drugs work? If they were juicing, the result would have been similar at Prefontaine. There is no magic pill to take just before the race to cut 3 seconds off your time. Peaking is everything.
If you're juiced to the gills, do you A) blow everyone out at Pre and raise suspicion and the competition's awareness ahead of the biggest event of the year or B) give a good effort at Pre to satisfy contractual obligations while continuing to train heavy
Personally, and this is a general comment more than a reflection of Hocker's performance: I remember a time when athletes looked tired after running fast. Heaving chests during post-race interviews, gasping. You see that so much less these days, and that can't all be down to the shoes and nutrition. Something's going on.
EXACTLY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's exactly so exactly the exact words and sentiments that would have oozed out of my mouth and my soul, you feeling me sir???????
The way Hocker performed at US trials 1500m final tells me that he sandbagged Prefontaine classic mile, hung back and relaxed went for ride with the boys!!!!!
Cunning piece of cheat, you feeling me???? He knows how to act, put on a show, and be the Tom Cruise or Matt Damon of high performance doping sport, you feeling me right?????
I can do that too, I can act just as well as Hocker if I need to!!!!!!!
Hocker didn't need no training in the intervening period between May 25th 2024 and June 23rd 2024 or between Pre classic and US trials 1500m final since training can't do such magical transformation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only Hollywood acting skills can do that, and, talking sh*t with the media at interviews and telling them:
"I feel like my training has come together this year I'm injury free and I know I have what it takes to be the best 1500m runner in the world....."
The Irony, An athlete who used to be part of the Oregon Project group is commenting about how we should have a life time ban for positive tests is a joke
If I'm not wrong, he left them quickly unlike Galen and Mo Farah so Craig has my vote as a clean athlete. His performances are also consistent and generally very reasonably interpolated in space and time, you feeling me sir????
However, I have never seen such ungodly manner of interpolation as Hocker's and Nuguse's 3:27 runs, and even Kessler's 3:29 run in which the day before he boasted to the media he is in 3:28 shape and can literally win the whole damn thing against the likes of KERR and Jakob!!!!!
It's like these 3 American perverts somehow knew they had 'unfair wings' from somewhere to be so bloody confident in how they speak, act and race.
He is very clearly not taking shots at anyone specifically, just sharing something that Phelps posted. Craig has been very outspoken in his disdain for doping many times in the past. This isn't new nor has it come from nowhere.
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