I was in the USADA testing pool for a year in 2014. I was super paranoid about missing a test and always updated whereabouts on their old janky iphone app. I was out running once and when I got back, the tester was standing there and I had about 5 minutes before he left and I had missed the test. So, IDK, you really have to be paying attention. I also don't know if they have a better system nowadays.
If you want to believe your Olympians are winning gold and breaking world records without any blood doping etc…then good for you. Remember Marion Jones never, but never publically tested positive for doping yet her husband failed 4 tests. Victor Conte stated USADA knew Marion would test positive but she was the face of the Olympics at the time so pardon and protected she was. Logic works both ways when you realize billions of dollars are in stake. The playing field is even in my eyes especially when Conte stated 7 out of 9 men in 100m is doping. The other two just didn’t get tested. You think Russia is the only country that had a state funded system? Have you seen China lately? Again enjoy the games from whichever perspective gives you the most joy.
Usada was incorporated immediately following the 2000 Olympic Games so you may want to check that quote.
I would add that Conte is an absolute fool and is not a reliable source on who is and who is not honest.
I was in the USADA testing pool for a year in 2014. I was super paranoid about missing a test and always updated whereabouts on their old janky iphone app. I was out running once and when I got back, the tester was standing there and I had about 5 minutes before he left and I had missed the test. So, IDK, you really have to be paying attention. I also don't know if they have a better system nowadays.
Did you get to choose your testing window then? Reading through the policy it looks like you get to choose your 60 minute testing window, for each day, anywhere from 5am-11pm. So I would just pick sometime in the evening like 8-9pm where I would be done training for the day and know I would be home and not in bed. If I was out to dinner or something, and forgot to update the app, that could easily be proven by a receipt or tracking on your phone.
Did you get to choose your testing window then? Reading through the policy it looks like you get to choose your 60 minute testing window, for each day, anywhere from 5am-11pm. So I would just pick sometime in the evening like 8-9pm where I would be done training for the day and know I would be home and not in bed. If I was out to dinner or something, and forgot to update the app, that could easily be proven by a receipt or tracking on your phone.
I believe they’re also allowed to test you outside the one hour window you have provided if they are able to find and locate you.
If you choose not to be tested then and there, it also counts as a missed test.
I was in the USADA testing pool for a year in 2014. I was super paranoid about missing a test and always updated whereabouts on their old janky iphone app. I was out running once and when I got back, the tester was standing there and I had about 5 minutes before he left and I had missed the test. So, IDK, you really have to be paying attention. I also don't know if they have a better system nowadays.
Did you get to choose your testing window then? Reading through the policy it looks like you get to choose your 60 minute testing window, for each day, anywhere from 5am-11pm. So I would just pick sometime in the evening like 8-9pm where I would be done training for the day and know I would be home and not in bed. If I was out to dinner or something, and forgot to update the app, that could easily be proven by a receipt or tracking on your phone.
Your scenario of being out at dinner and neglecting to update the app within time would count as a missed test, receipt or not.
One technique of evasion utilized in the past was to go online and revise the out of competition testing site immediately before the testing window began, as to make it impossible for the tester to reach the athlete. For that reason, last minute revisions are no longer permitted. There is some discretion however, for example, if you’ve just been confirmed for competition and are suddenly leaving your home at a moment’s notice and you revise your testing site inside of a 24 hrs, you would be able to document when you were confirmed for the competition, when the air ticket was paid for and so on.
@RoJo she ran something like 24.8 in highschool, ran 22.6 in 2019 and 2020, then 21.6 in 2021.
Why was she running so "slow?" The question is how does someone drop 3 seconds in the 200 from high school to pros? And how does someone go from 22.6 (competitive at best at the collegiate level) to the #2 all time in the history of the world only behind FloJo in one year?
@RoJo she ran something like 24.8 in highschool, ran 22.6 in 2019 and 2020, then 21.6 in 2021.
Why was she running so "slow?" The question is how does someone drop 3 seconds in the 200 from high school to pros? And how does someone go from 22.6 (competitive at best at the collegiate level) to the #2 all time in the history of the world only behind FloJo in one year?
I don’t think she trained seriously in high school, like at all.
Also pretty sure she was 6th in her first Olympic Trials (I think 2016?) and won an NCAA Indoor Title in 200m in a collegiate record time (22.38). In 2018 she still ran 22.1 outdoors but was probably capable of 21.9.
I’m not saying Thomas is clean (FWIW I don’t think any top sprinters are clean anyways, apart from maybe DAS/Adeleke), but it’s obnoxious how LR is always harping on about Thomas’s whereabouts violation (which she didn’t even serve a suspension for). Shericka Jackson went from 21.8 to 21.4 in a year and nobody here says anything.
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Usada left positive runners continue to run for information on others; integrity took a knock with that. Do you think nowadays they’d wanna catch the likes of Lyles when it would be a massive news story? That there isn’t some hint when testing when happen etc to ensure they don’t have any messy negative publicity to deal with.
Certain types of people assume Gabby is clean because she went to Harvard, is attractive, is mild mannered, is light skinned and not ghetto in any way.
But she missed 3 freakin' tests with crappy excuses and has had a ridiculous improvement curve. Y'all are happy to point the finger at Naser who missed 3 tests, but not Thomas?
The other bug-bear is everyone seems to accept today that an athlete can have a bad run because 'they are in a heavy training period'. This seems to be the thing nowadays. Hence we see Gabby with a 22.08 in March, suddenly running 22.68 in May and getting thrashed in 6th place. "oh we are in a heavy training period". She then comes back 1 month later in 21.78. Nonsense. Absolute bollocks. It's all microdosing and cycles and they all do it. In fact, I think Thoams and Elaine Thompson Herah were two of the most obvious ones who has this bollocksy dip in form because of 'training'.....nah.
3 missed tests in 5 months! Gotta be some kind of sad record. And then people here argue whether or not many athletes miss one test during their 10+ year career, lol.
@RoJo she ran something like 24.8 in highschool, ran 22.6 in 2019 and 2020, then 21.6 in 2021.
Why was she running so "slow?" The question is how does someone drop 3 seconds in the 200 from high school to pros? And how does someone go from 22.6 (competitive at best at the collegiate level) to the #2 all time in the history of the world only behind FloJo in one year?
How? By using drugs. But she’s what the PC media wants to push. Just like Sydney.
Just want to add that it's kind of surprising/disappointing that the other girls that went to TBB are not showing anywhere near the same progression as GT. Tamara Clark goes 21.9 while at Bama, currently around 22.1 or so. Anavia Battle 21.9 at Ohio State, drops to 22.4 after moving to Austin for TBB and has since gone back to Ohio.
Certain types of people assume Gabby is clean because she went to Harvard, is attractive, is mild mannered, is light skinned and not ghetto in any way.
But she missed 3 freakin' tests with crappy excuses and has had a ridiculous improvement curve. Y'all are happy to point the finger at Naser who missed 3 tests, but not Thomas?
The other bug-bear is everyone seems to accept today that an athlete can have a bad run because 'they are in a heavy training period'. This seems to be the thing nowadays. Hence we see Gabby with a 22.08 in March, suddenly running 22.68 in May and getting thrashed in 6th place. "oh we are in a heavy training period". She then comes back 1 month later in 21.78. Nonsense. Absolute bollocks. It's all microdosing and cycles and they all do it. In fact, I think Thoams and Elaine Thompson Herah were two of the most obvious ones who has this bollocksy dip in form because of 'training'.....nah.
@RoJo she ran something like 24.8 in highschool, ran 22.6 in 2019 and 2020, then 21.6 in 2021.
Why was she running so "slow?" The question is how does someone drop 3 seconds in the 200 from high school to pros? And how does someone go from 22.6 (competitive at best at the collegiate level) to the #2 all time in the history of the world only behind FloJo in one year?
How? By using drugs. But she’s what the PC media wants to push. Just like Sydney.
Are you saying the media is somehow involved in her getting away with doping? Just how hard did Trump screw your brain for you to think that that actually makes any sense?
Certain types of people assume Gabby is clean because she went to Harvard, is attractive, is mild mannered, is light skinned and not ghetto in any way.
But she missed 3 freakin' tests with crappy excuses and has had a ridiculous improvement curve. Y'all are happy to point the finger at Naser who missed 3 tests, but not Thomas?
The other bug-bear is everyone seems to accept today that an athlete can have a bad run because 'they are in a heavy training period'. This seems to be the thing nowadays. Hence we see Gabby with a 22.08 in March, suddenly running 22.68 in May and getting thrashed in 6th place. "oh we are in a heavy training period". She then comes back 1 month later in 21.78. Nonsense. Absolute bollocks. It's all microdosing and cycles and they all do it. In fact, I think Thoams and Elaine Thompson Herah were two of the most obvious ones who has this bollocksy dip in form because of 'training'.....nah.
Most on this site think Fischer is innocent for this very reason. The fact that your 2 other examples just happen to be black athletes is very telling.
Certain types of people assume Gabby is clean because she went to Harvard, is attractive, is mild mannered, is light skinned and not ghetto in any way.
But she missed 3 freakin' tests with crappy excuses and has had a ridiculous improvement curve. Y'all are happy to point the finger at Naser who missed 3 tests, but not Thomas?
The other bug-bear is everyone seems to accept today that an athlete can have a bad run because 'they are in a heavy training period'. This seems to be the thing nowadays. Hence we see Gabby with a 22.08 in March, suddenly running 22.68 in May and getting thrashed in 6th place. "oh we are in a heavy training period". She then comes back 1 month later in 21.78. Nonsense. Absolute bollocks. It's all microdosing and cycles and they all do it. In fact, I think Thoams and Elaine Thompson Herah were two of the most obvious ones who has this bollocksy dip in form because of 'training'.....nah.
Well that's literally how training works though. If your legs are loaded from a workout how would you be able to run as well as you would when peaking? That's common knowledge. The only reason this looks weird to you is other athletes will deload for a meet or they just won't show up to a meet until they're ready. Ironically you're calling her suspicious for making herself visible more often which is something a lot of you say athletes don't do /shrug, no athlete can both compete regularly on the circuit and deload for every single meet (depending on event), would be bad scheduling championship-wise