Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
This is how the AIU has been operating towards their most suspicious athletes lately. They go all in and test, test, test until they get a positive test or a whereabouts violation. It's been working thus far.
Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
This is how the AIU has been operating towards their most suspicious athletes lately. They go all in and test, test, test until they get a positive test or a whereabouts violation. It's been working thus far.
Don't they have to have a substantial lead for this? After a few months any athlete would definitely have a targeted harrassment case against the AIU that they would easily win, unless there was substantive reasoning for them to keep targeting them specifically.
Don't they have to have a substantial lead for this? After a few months any athlete would definitely have a targeted harrassment case against the AIU that they would easily win, unless there was substantive reasoning for them to keep targeting them specifically.
Yes, I think it's safe to say they had good reason to believe a crime was being committed in order to get the court to approve a search. Or there was clearly a crime happening for French police to execute a search and seizure without a court order.
As for frequent testing. AIU has been very clear about doing that when bio passport suggests an issue. I don't believe anyone has challenged their right to do that.
This is how the AIU has been operating towards their most suspicious athletes lately. They go all in and test, test, test until they get a positive test or a whereabouts violation. It's been working thus far.
Don't they have to have a substantial lead for this? After a few months any athlete would definitely have a targeted harrassment case against the AIU that they would easily win, unless there was substantive reasoning for them to keep targeting them specifically.
Totally valid. Yeah, concerns about targeted harassment are absolutely understandable. Le'ts try to remember the context of the AIU's operations. They need strong reasons for targeted testing, but things get complicated with high-risk federations due to past doping problems.
Rule 15 of the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules makes these federations test their athletes more often. If a federation, like Algeria (maybe categorised as "A" under Rule 15.2), doesn't do this enough, the AIU can step in. This might mean more AIU testing of Sedjati or even stopping Sedjati from competing internationally.
So, if Algeria didn't test Sedjati enough according to Rule 15.3.2 (b), that could very well be what triggers the AIU's extra attention and testing. The prospect of either facing more tests or missing the Olympics outright, it might well be that perhaps both Sedjati and the Algerian Federation chose more tests.
There's a tonne of nuance we're not considering.
While Sedjati's rights are crucial, the AIU's mandate to maintain clean sport -- especially on an Olympic stage -- can't be ignored. When National Federations fail to uphold their responsibilities, the AIU must act, albeit within the confines of their authority (and they have that authority under Rule 15.6). Block athletes who may be doping from unfairly competing and robbing others of their rightful opportunities to stand on the rostrum and/or celebrate their flag. Sixteen tests, if true, may seem harsh, but in the case of a very dubious entry into the Games and the federation that backs him, they're absolutely necessary to protect the Olympic integrity.
Please let him be busted QUICKLY if he indeed has been doping. 1:41.67 deserves at least a 🥉 Bronze, actually in any other year it would be worthy of the GOLD medal.
Does anybody know if they could suspend Sedjati if they found EPO or such in his coach's bags? I mean, they didn't ban anybody when they found EPO syringes in Aden's hotel room.
They didn't ban anyone when they found testosterone in Salazar's bag.
Can someone tell me the name of a thread that was deleted?
Yes. You made a thread about Dina Asher-Smith’s move to Texas being great because Dina said Americans do everything they can for people, and I replied that Dina has regressed since her move and won’t medal in the 100. Dina then bombed out of the 100 semi and the thread was instantly deleted.
Our volunteer mods are insane at times. I restored it:
Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting posi...
Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
Source? Where did you get that info. If you mention something that specific, please cite a source so we can verify it.
Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
Source? Where did you get that info. If you mention something that specific, please cite a source so we can verify it.
i believe he's mentioned twitter. would agree that being sequestered for 24 hours lends itself to much more than an "inconvenience" as sedjati has stated. of course, testing positive or discovering anything nefarious will likely then be painted as discrimination and fake by the algerians, won't it?
Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
This is how the AIU has been operating towards their most suspicious athletes lately. They go all in and test, test, test until they get a positive test or a whereabouts violation. It's been working thus far.
Which is exactly why those Chinese swimmers were being tested so much. They complained about how much they were being tested compared to other athletes, but I'm guessing their biological passports were all "likely doper".
I mean Pan Zhanle's 100m record is absolutely insane. The pool was slow and he took off 0.4 seconds from the record (his own previously set this year). Wouldn't be surprised if China was doping the top athletes while they go through puberty for those life long gains.
Source? Where did you get that info. If you mention something that specific, please cite a source so we can verify it.
i believe he's mentioned twitter. would agree that being sequestered for 24 hours lends itself to much more than an "inconvenience" as sedjati has stated. of course, testing positive or discovering anything nefarious will likely then be painted as discrimination and fake by the algerians, won't it?
Appologies for french wordings. If that was at a police station, then she have probably been "gardée à vue", which is a legal procedure that must be signed by a prosecutor, on very serious ground that a crime might have been comitted by the person who is kept. To my knowledge AIU as no jurisdiction to request such a legal procedure in France (OCLAESP might, though).
Sedjati has apparently appeared on Algerian TV stating that his coach Benida's 18 year old daughter was 'sequestered' at a French police station for 24 hours. He was also tested 16 times in 40 days. Pretty sure they must have had something big on him.
Source? Where did you get that info. If you mention something that specific, please cite a source so we can verify it.
An Algerian Tweeted video of Sedjati being interviewed on Arabic TV, with the comment underneath about Benida's daughter.
This Algerian newspaper reports that she had been kept at the police station for 48 hours.
Une provocation inutile. Un coup tordu, préparé depuis bien longtemps dans le but de perturber la concentration des athlètes algériens, mais qui a fini
Act 3: But while the girl expected the police to apologize and leave, they confiscate her phone and laptop. Then, they ask her to follow them to the police station where she will be held for 48 hours for nothing. No charges will be brought against her, because there is nothing. After 48 hours of detention, she will be released. Putting pressure on an athlete, by imprisoning his coach's daughter, the day before an Olympic semi-final. This is unheard of! Act 4: At the very moment that Sedjati was running his semi-final, his coach's daughter was in the hands of the police. He didn't know whether to focus on the race, on the fate of the young girl or on his calf injury that he had been dragging around for 10 days. And since that moment, we were expecting this release from the newspaper L'EQUIPE, whose specialty it is (clickbait title but empty content), in order to create a buzz. Remember the Taoufik Makhloufi affair.
This post is in response to aWSEA‘s hateful rant that everyone is a doper except for Hicham El Guerrouj. I don’t know how to write a reply with the other person’s post on top.
It appears that you have pure hatred towards the entire sport of Track and Field.
I suggest that you stop watching races and writing on this message board and focus your attention on something else that you deem positive and worthy of your time and attention. You’ll be more happy unless you’re just a cynic…
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If he was doping he would have been caught when he was under french coach Dupont.
Well isn't that a very convincing argument. You think dopers do NOT have "very strong physiques" and can't drop 1:44 in training.
Did you even read what I wrote?!! The post you were responding to?!! I said he was talented, and that dopers use PEDs so they can develop better physiques and train harder, not to "cut corners and avoid workouts". Too many people talk about PEDs as if they're a shortcut; they're not. They enable you to train harder and recover better.
His physique and training make me more suspicious, not less.
I don't know what you don't get.
It is clearly stated in my message that NO, you can still have good performance even when you run like the idiot of Katir who wasn't even close to being great or having great physical aptitude.
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I have been doing some digging on X, and an Algerian has claimed that not only was Sedjati and his coach's room searched, but also the apartment of the coach's daughter, who is a student in Paris apparently.
They tested Sedjati 7 times in the last 3 weeks.
They have seized Sedjati's and his coach's smartphones and laptops. Looks like it will be a thorough investigation, although this Algerian on X said that they found no illegal peds and claims it's all due to French 'Algeriaphobia'.
Its even worse than that, the daughter of the coach Benida a student in Paris, was held in custody for 24h straight.
They didn't find anything though, and they raided Sedjati's room TWICE, before the semi-final and just before the final.
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Don't they have to have a substantial lead for this? After a few months any athlete would definitely have a targeted harrassment case against the AIU that they would easily win, unless there was substantive reasoning for them to keep targeting them specifically.
Yes, I think it's safe to say they had good reason to believe a crime was being committed in order to get the court to approve a search. Or there was clearly a crime happening for French police to execute a search and seizure without a court order.
As for frequent testing. AIU has been very clear about doing that when bio passport suggests an issue. I don't believe anyone has challenged their right to do that.
Their good reason is that he is algerian ... you won't understand anything unless you read about french-algerian history, but surprisingly, I doubt that you are able to.
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