Editor's Note: Poland's anti-doping authorities have issued a statement that claims that the documents linking Polish athletes to doping are "fake," saying, "Fake news discrediting Polish athletes appeared in the public space. None of the mentioned athletes obtained a positive result and none of the dates presented correspond to anti-doping controls."
People also believe it’s fake because Swiatek was playing Wimbledon the day she allegedly tested positive, and POLADA wouldn’t have tested her in London
Yawn. As if the Russians have never forged "hacked" test results before.
Rojo - thanks for the t-shirt - I actually got too many after years of racing ; )
I have no problem with providing some info about polish athletes. It just bother me, that threads like this are full of lies and fakes - 95% of it. It's not fair for the athletes.
I know the case of POLADA. There was a real leak done by russian hacker group, 10 days ago. ALL the files from the agency computers were stolen - investigations, personal files, medical data, passwords written by plain text, etc. But it's obviously not the files discussed here - these are fake. The real files are gone now - from Telegram, where one could find them just few days ago. They are probably available somewhere in the dark web.
The real files didn't have too many sensations. Maybe some missed test - usually out of stupidity. It's not too difficult to mess with the ADAMS system. But not a cover up.
In reality the polish system is almost completely clean. Most of the prohibited substances are not available in the open market. We do not have a doping system. And we didn't have the major ban in, let me think - probably 20 or more years (in athletics). There were some cases, but minor - usually, again, out of stupidity - contaminated supplements or just stupid supplements taken without care. Or recreational drugs. The real level of dietary knowledge among athletes and coaches is appallingly low.
And we do not have too many successes in running in the last years - except the 800m, where the polish school is very, very good, very technical (Kipketer had a polish coach, btw and earlier - Juantorena, too). But distance running is in terrible state (we used to be good in the steeple in the past). And we actually put a lot of money to the system. For example, most of the athletes serve in the army, in the special sport-units. There is a political fuss in Poland right now - that we pump a lot of money but finished the Games with just one medal in athletics (Kaczmarek).
That's it. And we got just 2 global superstars - Lewandowski, the soccer player, and Iga Swiatek, the tennis player. Especially Iga is just a decent person. Lewandowski has some funny law problems and, of course, is getting older.
Adam Haertle wrote:
All. This one word best describes the scale of what the burglars stole from the computers and servers of the Polish Anti-Doping Agency. Not only did they steal it, but they also published it online. And you can find literally everything in this data - from "corporate" information, such as athletes' personal data, medical data, anti-doping test reports, investigation files or documentation of cooperation with law enforcement agencies, to private data from users' computers - the games they play their children, vacation photos or divorce documents.
On August 6, last Tuesday, around noon on one of the Telegram channels (we deliberately do not provide the name because the data is still there) there was an entry from a generally unknown "hacker group" (actually two of them, because the incident was allegedly the result of their collaboration). ). The entry announced the leak of data from the anti-doping agency of one of the European Union countries.
A few hours later, data stolen from the infrastructure of the Polish Anti-Doping Agency appeared on the same channel. The hackers released RAR files that, after unpacking, occupy over 242 GB. These gigabytes of information contain almost 50,000 files. These are both files from individual users' computers (usually the Desktop and My Documents folders, totaling over 58 GB), as well as the server's virtual disk file with a volume of 184 GB.
On the same day, the burglars modified the POLADA website at antydoping.pl. The website remains unavailable until the article is published. The modification of the website was carried out using the credentials of one of the employees - the password for managing WordPress was stored on this person's computer in plain text in a Word document.
On the same day, one of the injured athletes, Wojtek Pszczolarski, published the content of the message that POLADA sent to the athletes. The "GDPR compliant" message shows that data such as name, surname, residential address, telephone number and e-mail address have been disclosed. The announcement contains nothing about the results of anti-doping tests, the results of medical tests and the health status of players, or the documentation of investigations conducted by the agency, which often delve deep into the lives of suspected players. Why were these elements missing from the message? That's a very good question.
Contrary to POLADA's announcement, the disclosed (and still available on the Internet) data contains a lot of other information apart from the athletes' personal data. We are unable to count how many people have been exposed - but these are probably all people who have been subjected to anti-doping tests in Poland over the last few years, and there are thousands of them. But that's not all, of course. What else can be found in the leak?
Of course, there are many anti-doping control reports and lists of such controls, from which you can find out who among the players from all over Poland prefers cocaine and who prefers THC.
We also have reports of failed doping controls.
Applications for a therapeutic use exemption.
The disclosed data includes, for example, photos from searches of places that looked like illegal chemical laboratories, recorded under the title "Documentation constituting an annex to inspection reports of items secured for investigation."
Wszystko. To jedno słowo najlepiej opisuje skalę tego, co włamywacze ukradli z komputerów i serwerów Polskiej Agencji Antydopingowej. Nie tylko ukradli, ale także opublikowali w…
None of these are TUEs? All federations covering for athletes? I don't get it so there's a paper trail but no ban? What's the official stated position? Couldn't confirm the tests.
Dobek got popped for clenbuterol. A triathlete just got popped for that & it's apparently a big masking agent so likely on all sorts of things. That's one where you can get the cycle wrong.
Yea, this strikes me as some kind of coordinated action on the part of the sporting authorities. Either Polish agencies are just sweeping at these positives under the rug or there is systematic doping in Polish sports.
Doesn't have to be either or, both could be, and are probably, true.
The five-time major winner will serve the eight days remaining on the one-month ban now, after showing her test result came inadvertently from contaminated melatonin.
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