Breaking: Olympic 100h Champ Brianna Rollins gets 12-month ban for 3 whereabouts violations

Immaterial.

In boarding schools, the whereabouts of the pupils is known at all times, even when they are off campus for a while. Any schedule changes are updated, as necessary. This rule predates the days of instant communications.

If kids can do this, it is of course expected that highly-trained disciplined successful adults are capable of the same.

If you are on two strikes, and you still screw up a simple whereabouts declaration for the THIRD time in a matter of MONTHS, you can assume doping most definitely. That's why you get banned.

In response to the "she had no reason to dope" chestnut, Clenbuterol may have been in her blood - as we know, that takes an age to clear. She could also have inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance - we can keep assuming; but she evaded doping control for the third time ergo DOPER.

ArticulateLarry wrote:

In boarding schools, the whereabouts of the pupils is known at all times, even when they are off campus for a while. Any schedule changes are updated, as necessary. This rule predates the days of instant communications.

If kids can do this, it is of course expected that highly-trained disciplined successful adults are capable of the same.

And most do, but some struggle with what children in a setting of limited freedom can. Look how stupid this all is. She had the opportunity to contest all three of these and never did.

ArticulateLarry wrote:

In response to the "she had no reason to dope" chestnut, Clenbuterol may have been in her blood - as we know, that takes an age to clear.

Why take something that takes "an age" to clear when you're on the way to the Drake Relays or when you're not training and also on the list for additional testing?

I'm guessing she went to a $EC school for college let's face it they all love to cheat I mean look at L$U 4 BY 1 Women's sprint team they look like 4 dudes they really need to lay off the roids man

Again, it could have been inadvertent ingestion of a listed substance. The only fact we are certain of, is that she evaded doping controls three times in a matter of months.

Her career depended on her observing a very simple regime that even the worst athlete copes with.

As champion, there are no excuses; there's only one reasonable conclusion why she chose to disregard doping controls again and again and again.

and yet passed many doping controls as well? yeah ok. She's an idiot, true, but her excuses were very plausible and apparently the board agreed.

She was surprised the leeway given to E. Africans, certain Caribbean and Latin American countries and athletes doesn't apply to African Americans.

ughh come on guys its obvious she is mind weak and not ELITE, retardo knows what he is talking about. she took PEDs to become elite, she wasnt elite cause she was mind weak. once she was elite, the PEDs no longer worked, thats why she didnt fail drug tests, she missed the tests cause she is still mind weak....and thus makes her not elite.

i could ramble on more and more and used other athletes to prove my point and call every one a moron and sound more confusing, then blame it on the fact that english isnt my native tongue, but i wont.

Retardo Canova

Oh Well It Happens wrote:

She was surprised the leeway given to E. Africans, certain Caribbean and Latin American countries and athletes doesn't apply to African Americans.

Leeway

Oh Well It Happens wrote:

She was surprised the leeway given to E. Africans, certain Caribbean and Latin American countries and athletes doesn't apply to African Americans.

What do all of those countries have in common, the ones given so much leeway? They are all Commonwealth countries! Who are the top administrators at WADA, IAAF and IOC? They are all commonwealth citizens! Do the math. Connect the dots.

And don't forget a willingness to dope.

Distance running is getting there but sprinting has been a steroid fest for years led by the good ol' US of A.

rojo wrote:

But let's say you are doping. Would you really be doping in September - a month after the Olympics? Two of her missed tests were from then.

It just seems incredibly stupid. I mean even if you were a doper - would you be doping a month after you won Olympic gold?

I don't think so. Or do I not know anything about doping? So then it just comes down to pure stupidity to not fill out the form correctly.

She is incredibly stupid. Have you ever heard her talk? Have you seen that her 24-year-old body is covered with tattoos?

She IS incredibly stupid. She just cost herself at least $400,000 just this year, more money indirectly for the rest of her career.

predictor wrote:

It's kind of absurd that athletes have to account for their whereabouts on a constant basis. Of course, the rationale for doping prevention is clear, but this gives little to no individual freedom of movement and association for people who just want to get off the grid after a hard season. I would hate to deal with the red tape bs of being under a constant watchful eye, especially when the organization that watches me is full of dopers and doper apologists, and reports back to an organization led by a doper (Seb Coe) and doper apologists. The hypocrisy is infinite. Test when you can, but give people individual freedom.

Wrong. And there is no hypocrisy. They have all the freedom you could ever want. You just have to tell the WADA where you are going and when you will be there.

Simple. If she screwed up THREE times in a short period, it is on her.

rojo wrote:

To me, the only incompetence on USADAs part is bothering to test anyone in September. It just seems like a waste of resources but I don't know -could you get so jacked up on Roids in September that it would still help you the next july.

A sport doctor told me once, that after the season many athletes use steroids like testosteron for healing and recovery reasons. He said, he wrote a prescription for people doing that.

And like somebody said, she may be targeted because of some suspisions like above.

cornholio69 wrote:

She's smart, and so is her agent. 12 months is a lot worse than the 4 years she would have gotten if she allowed herself to be tested on any of those 3 days

I seriously doubt Rollins was doping in September or any other month. Rollins was the best in the world at age 21, she ran 12.26 as a college junior...perhaps you think she was doping back then. She has actually gotten slower over the last couple of years...perhaps you think she was doping and got worse. As a former athlete and coach, at the end of a season, you tend to let your hair down for a month of two and do things you don't do in-season. I would not be surprised at all if this SoCal young lady smoked a little pot and was a afraid of getting busted.

I would not be at all suprised if this girl too a shedload of dope to become Champion and was afraid of getting busted.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

In April? Maybe the doping was in preparation for the Olympics, not for that tune-up fun race.

Then why the hell would she go to a race with doping controls if she had just shot up?

Probably she planned her glowing to stop two days before the race. Too risky then to get tested during the travel, no risk at all to "miss" one test.

Casual obsever wrote:

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Then why the hell would she go to a race with doping controls if she had just shot up?

Probably she planned her glowing to stop two days before the race. Too risky then to get tested during the travel, no risk at all to "miss" one test.

She's so sophisticated as to judge her glow time within a very specific window but at the same time so careless that she fails to respond to missed test notifications? If she had really put precision timing into doping, she wouldn't have left a single missed test notification unanswered.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Casual obsever wrote:

Probably she planned her glowing to stop two days before the race. Too risky then to get tested during the travel, no risk at all to "miss" one test.

She's so sophisticated as to judge her glow time within a very specific window but at the same time so careless that she fails to respond to missed test notifications? If she had really put precision timing into doping, she wouldn't have left a single missed test notification unanswered.

I gotta say, Jeff is making a lot of sense on this thread.

Maybe, like Gatlin, she has ADD. Just not very organised, poor time management, forgetful, and generally random in her day-to-day life.

Her training will be structured by the coach, someone books meets and flights, and her mum packs her lunch.

She needs to get a therapeutic exemption for Adderall.