Status of Issam Asinga - he's been training with the Texas A&M team

Thanks for investigating this issue.

If nothing else, wada/aiu should immediately amend the code to include training with any organization that trains national or world class athletes. It's a blatant loophole if it is even permissible, which I am skeptical of.

For example, are all members of USATF or the like "signatories"? I would hope so, as a condition of membership. If the organization is a signatory, YOU are a signatory as a member, in my opinion. Any other definition would be a total sham. Everyone on the USATF coach registry or any coach (or athlete) with even a membership, is, in my view, a "signatory". "USATF", after all, does not organize workouts and things of that nature. Members and registered/certified coaches, however DO. So if anyone involved is a USATF member, coach, athlete etc (and surely some are...) then it seems a possible violation. Or a blatant and obvious workaround for suspended athletes.

+1

I was quite sure that there are USATF athletes on his team, but maybe not?

I also recall that many DLV members didn't race as a precaution when the banned Baumann showed up at an indoor meeting some 20 years ago.

This is not related to the Q, but I was reading a Surinamese newspaper article about the situation where his Dad said he stands by his innocence and that if the B sample came back positive he would pay whatever it takes to find a lawyer to fight the case, even if he had to sell his house. I'd guess they're in long litigation processes which is why we haven't heard anything, also given his age.

I don't understand. The B sample already came back negative about a year ago - it is the reason why he wasn't allowed to compete at worlds.

Came back positive I think you mean.

THIS is high-level track now.

If I wanted to spend my time on this stuff, I would have gone into criminal law—a field which I purposely stayed away from.

Sucks, AND lame. One loser family’s boring personal attempt to “make it”, the wrong way.

Next.

whoops, yep. my bad.

I am wondering whether something is off on the AIU side. Asinga isn't the only one whose case should have been referred to the DT several months ago. Jebet (nandro) is also waiting since August, and Cherono even since July (trimetazidine). Remember how Shelburrito complained that her case wasn't sent to the DT within three months? Likewise there are cases with the DT since several months too (Kipruto since May 2023, Braz since July, Kwemoi since August). Terrible situation all around.

Furthermore, the announcement of provisional suspensions seems to be much less this year (about 1 per month) than during recent years (3 - 4 per month?). The latter could be due to a cleaner sport, all of a sudden, but I find that hard to believe. Maybe overworked/understaffed?

Well, Kwemoi and Asinga finally got their well deserved bans of several years each.

Let's hope Asinga will finally stop training with his team.

This cheating stick figure was brought to justice by the Gummy Bear Police Dept !

So I guess GW1516 really works? Wonder where he got it, who coached him on its use? Who has been training w him- coaching him the past few yrs?

amos got banned for the same substance i believe, so did my former coach. does it work? idk, but a lot of people have been banned for it for it not to work

Probably not the only thing he was using.

So when we hear if he's been booted from training with the team at Texas A&M? My justice b0ner isn't big enough yet!

The AIU reported that the samples sent by the runner “contained significantly more GW1516 on the outside than on the inside, which practically excludes any contamination by raw ingredients during the manufacturing process“.

It almost sounds like they think he may have tampered with the recover gummies in trying to make his case.

essentiallysports.com

Disaster in Track & Field Community as U20 World Record Holder Issam Asinga Banned Over Drug Abuse

@DiptarkoPaul

The Athletics Integrity Unit has levied a four-year ban and a hefty fine on U20 prodigy Issam Asinga over prohibited substance use.

Link:www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-ne...

Same old shlt.

Don't let the door hit your asz on the way out.

The "adults" (and I use that term loosely) around him also need to be turfed.

9.89, ROFLMAO

Almost? That's exactly what they're saying.

The sprinting coaching in the state of Florida is pretty questionable, at best. You have Lance Brauman and Dennis Mitchell to start. Asinga's highschool coach and that program have been questioned a lot. It doesn't surprise me that he was able to access PED's.

I don't know about training, but the CAS ruled in 2015 (Damar Robinson) that while NCAA is not a signatory, and an ineligible athlete "competing" in NCAA events during suspension or periods of ineligibility is a violation:

This same language "national level Event organization" is in the WADA Code 10.14.1.