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?
Wrong, I would be the first one to insult him and shame him publicly and I'm Algerian.
And stop saying this nonsense Algeria and morocco have nothing in common, if morocco and Algeria are the same, so is the case with Mexico and the US.
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.
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.
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looks like she was suspected of holding the bag.
there are rich pun variations here, i resist posting, and the reader can fill in the blanks.
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:
Does anybody know who the coach of Gabriel Tual is? Apparently he has posted an Instagram story with something spicy to say about Sedjati.
Tual is coached by Bernard Mossant. I follow Tual and didn't see anything on his story recently about Sedjati. Checking his coach's Instagram I don't see any story or post about Sedjati, just congratulating Tual after the final. It could have been removed or just past the 24 story limit but I can't find anything on IG.
Does anybody know who the coach of Gabriel Tual is? Apparently he has posted an Instagram story with something spicy to say about Sedjati.
Tual is coached by Bernard Mossant. I follow Tual and didn't see anything on his story recently about Sedjati. Checking his coach's Instagram I don't see any story or post about Sedjati, just congratulating Tual after the final. It could have been removed or just past the 24 story limit but I can't find anything on IG.
So that translates to "Of course, it was to be expected."
Here is a comment on Tual's progression this year from an article he linked to on his IG (translated): Should we be surprised by Gabriel Tual's leap forward? Everyone is surprised, but since Tokyo, he has been doing the whole Olympics at a high level. His broken collarbone deprives him of the Diamond League meetings in 2023, otherwise he would surely have been under 1'43''. The start of the season was very good, we felt that Pierre-Ambroise Bosse's French record (1'42''53) could fall. In Paris, there was the perfect race, without a hitch, in good conditions. It starts quickly but for him not more than that. It was beyond expectations. Even the Belgian behind who is doing 1'42''40, his coach did not expect it. It was a combination of circumstances, you had to be there that day, maybe he will never do that time again, I don't know. But in Monaco, he confirmed with 1'42''10.
Is this the result of more work? No, Gabriel is not a workaholic. In the environment, they say that training with me is light. It's not true, I try to work fairly, for a "good value for money", there's no point in getting worked up, risking injury. But I'm talking about hard work, because it's 40 weeks since September, training only for the summer, because we made the strategic choice, for two years, not to do the winter season.
You also changed the racing strategy… For a long time, we used to say: "Be careful, don't get locked in but don't go too far outside." With the fleas today, we know that most guys run 803 to 807 meters - 809 at Charléty for Gabriel. Running locked inside is really not good, you suffer a lot, you don't do your race, not your stride. After his elimination in the semi-finals at the 2022 European Championships and then the 2023 World Championships, where he was locked in, we made the choice to be a little outside, lane 1 or lane 2. In Monaco, he didn't really have a choice, they started like crazy all side by side. He did almost his entire race in lane 2, or 812 meters at the finish. The strategy is also to be a little patient. Before, he accelerated a little too nervously on the last lap. There, he knows how to wait, not to panic, even if it means going further. But on the other hand, you have to be there at the right time.
What is the contribution of the new carbon tips and the absorption of bicarbonates, which we hear so much about?
Carbon spikes appeared in 2021, new models in 2022 and now prototypes developed for the Games. As for bicarbonates, Gabriel started using them in training last year to see if he tolerated them, and during the sessions I didn't see any change. Apparently, it slows down the rise of lactic acid. In any case, everyone takes it since it is tolerated. You shouldn't think that it does everything, it plays a role, like the rest, like the shoes, like the big progress in the recovery processes. Like the confidence of the athletes, who no longer have the complexes they used to have about taking two seconds from the Africans or the Americans, that helps.
Bernard Mossant, coach de Gabriel Tual à l’US Talence depuis dix ans, explique les chronos canons du Lot-et-Garonnais, et comment il le prépare pour les Jeux de Paris
Very interesting to see this and appreciate the translations. I posted in another thread about Tual that to me before the breakthrough times, he was someone I considered prototypical of where the 800 was as an event: a solid championship level athlete who was stuck running in the 1:44 range. It was pretty crazy to see him among the guys to burst through this year but after seeing the Olympic final I'm a little less suspicious. From the outside, you'd probably say the same thing about Hoppel, as he's also been a 1:44-1:43 guy for years now and then this season he runs 1:42 and 1:41. I do genuinely want to believe that these guys, Sedjati included, are all clean and have just risen to the occasion this year. Unfortunately, following this sport for so long I think we're all once bitten twice shy when it comes to this kind of improvement.
