One of the things I know is that I was a hack runner and got to 4th in the country. Never made the NCAA meet so it gives me assurance there are some clean athletes way, way faster than me.
Of course there are. Doping won't make you 16 s/mile faster. Maybe half of that, give or take.
We’ll now that I see it written GW15I6guess I’ve seen it but I couldn’t tell you what it was. it was always one of those things I wasn’t sure what it was, so it never registered in the brain, but each time I’d see it might thing ‘oh I should look up that thing’ . Are there other drugs with random letters and numbers or is that the only one? I feel like I’d see a random number drug in the context of ‘you all are so naive . Steroids are 1970s , people have moved on to this. ‘ But since major people weren’t testing positive it didn’t register except as there are random number drugs
It's made up of numbers and letters because it never got beyond the first stage of clinical testing, as every mouse they gave it to quickly had cancer coming out of their ears and noses. It's often called cardarine and grouped in with SARMs, although I think technically it's not a SARM.
It Definitely not a SARM. SARMs basically mimic anabolic steroids - increasing lean muscle mass & reducing BF. They're popular in the bodybuilding community because they're not classified as an anabolic steroid & therefore not a controlled-substance bounded by Federal drug laws.
GW1516 in the mouse studies boosted endurance by 70 percent:
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-δ (PPARδ) agonists are the drug candidates with potential performance-enhancing properties, and therefore their illegitimate use in sports should be controlled. To simulate the metab...
Looking back several years at the doping cases with athletes hardly any runners tested positive. Dozen or so cyclists over the past several years were popped & a few race walkers.
Elena Lashmanova of Russia was probably the highest profile athlete to test positive when she was popped for GW1516 after winning Olympic gold & setting the WR in the 20km walk at London.
I just re-watched the 2012 men's 800m final -- one of my favorite races in recent track history.
Nijel seemed to experience a minor re-emergence this year.
I don't think he necessarily age cheated. He might just not know his actual day? Also, generally Americans look younger (up to a point where drugs, lack of sleep, etc., catch up with you).
We just need one more to get popped and Nick Symmonds has a medal! Of course we also need to get on same page of retroactively taking medals away. That 800 was way way too fast to be clean. 5th place would be gold in any other olympics if i recall.
Botswana's Nijel Amos, the joint-third-fastest 800m runner in history, has been provisionally suspended and is in line to miss the world championships.
Buddy texted me this last night. Honestly without a word of a lie, I have never been less surprised to hear of somebody getting caught. I mean they could bust Jacobs, this clown from "Spain" Katir - almost anybody, and it was surprise me more than Nijel Amos.
I have said for years here on these boards there is basically zero chance he is clean and of course got slated because the majority of track followers follow the concepts of wishful and fearful thinking. Wishful that despite what is comically obvious, all is good and well because they are fearful of what it might mean if they opposite was in fact reality.
In Nijel Amos we had a guy who ran 1.41.73 supposedly as a teenager. Say that again people - he was sixth months into his 18th year alive and ran as fast as Sebastian Coe did in setting a WR that took 16 years to best. Coe, Kipketer and Rudisha were 25,25 and 24 when setting their preceding records and this should tell you enough. None of those guys (including Cruz) under 1.42 did it even for the first time until well into their 20s.
And unlike any of those 3 who were some of the greatest movers ever seen on running tracks, Amos did this despite form in the final 150m that resembled a frog in a blender which is another classic sign of dopers that we have seen before (first name that springs to mind Rashid Ramzi) who are able to inexplicably overcome awful form in the final stages of races with equally inexplicable and unexplainable strength.
Finally, his best years were spent with Jama Aden. Do I need to say anything else? Yes he left and came to train with Rowland but at that point he sucked except for a few seasons where he "came back from the dead" to run sub 1.42 again after disappearing back to the south of Africa for 18 months. I mean for f's sake people.
Sure, he only got caught now but if you still want to believe that this guy hasn't been doing this or a plethora of sh-t throughout his career then more fool you. Again.
I just re-watched the 2012 men's 800m final -- one of my favorite races in recent track history.
Nijel seemed to experience a minor re-emergence this year.
I don't think he necessarily age cheated. He might just not know his actual day? Also, generally Americans look younger (up to a point where drugs, lack of sleep, etc., catch up with you).
We just need one more to get popped and Nick Symmonds has a medal! Of course we also need to get on same page of retroactively taking medals away. That 800 was way way too fast to be clean. 5th place would be gold in any other olympics if i recall.
Amos was an obvious age cheat, claiming to be 18 when he was 25.
He went from 1:51 to 1:41 in less than two years. How?
By taking performance enhancing drugs. He was a drug cheat.
Botswana has zero drug testing and babies in that third world sh*thole are not born in hospitals. They are born at home, so their is no official record of their birth. So these cheaters can claim any age they want.
him being 18 would make the improvement much more plausible than if he was 25, as you are suggesting.
I just re-watched the 2012 men's 800m final -- one of my favorite races in recent track history.
Nijel seemed to experience a minor re-emergence this year.
I don't think he necessarily age cheated. He might just not know his actual day? Also, generally Americans look younger (up to a point where drugs, lack of sleep, etc., catch up with you).
I just rewatched the race too, turns out Amos got second! The people who think he should lose his silver should watch the race again and see what I just saw.
doping or not, he was the second best guy on that day. Doping or not, he ran 1:41.73, which is smoking fast and better than anyone nowadays is running.
you can’t go back and change history just because you don’t get the result you want.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201209190184.htmlThe Star wrote that Kipekter said:"The athletes who ran in the 800m at the London Olympic Games are all under 25 years and this means they can still bring the record down to 1.38...
Maybe, maybe not, but that is still not so unusual.
Let me assure you that it requires a lot more knowledge about physiology and a lot more intelligence being a top coach than setting up a discussion forum.
One could say they are completely different things.
Any noob at letsrun can read about all kinds of exotic drugs in these forums with no knowledge of physiology and little intelligence, but top coaches may not pay that much attention to gossip and rumors.
Amos was an obvious age cheat, claiming to be 18 when he was 25.
He went from 1:51 to 1:41 in less than two years. How?
By taking performance enhancing drugs. He was a drug cheat.
Botswana has zero drug testing and babies in that third world sh*thole are not born in hospitals. They are born at home, so their is no official record of their birth. So these cheaters can claim any age they want.
him being 18 would make the improvement much more plausible than if he was 25, as you are suggesting.
