The AIU just announced that Naser has been suspended for whereabouts failures. No further details at this time.
The AIU just announced that Naser has been suspended for whereabouts failures. No further details at this time.
I just saw that predicted for next year on another thread. Sooner than expected. But unsurprising.
Bahrain (and Qatar, Turkey and others) essentially buying athletes on the free market, throwing more money at them than most sponsorship deals, then pressuring the athletes for an instant return on investment, is a big part of the problem.
El Keniano wrote:
Bahrain (and Qatar, Turkey and others) essentially buying athletes on the free market, throwing more money at them than most sponsorship deals, then pressuring the athletes for an instant return on investment, is a big part of the problem.
Yeah. I think she is Nigerian and changed her name to run for that oil money.
This is why the sport needs better, fairer and more evenly distributed wealth. And need to allow athletes multiple sponsorship avenues
When you have most athletes barely able to support themselves and then the elite few above them buying sports cars for fun, it makes short cuts mighty tempting.
Matt London was touting her performance as the fastest from a clean athlete.
Amazingly, given the stuff he says, I knew that this was the most absurd.
Flagrant!
ex-runner wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Bahrain (and Qatar, Turkey and others) essentially buying athletes on the free market, throwing more money at them than most sponsorship deals, then pressuring the athletes for an instant return on investment, is a big part of the problem.
Yeah. I think she is Nigerian and changed her name to run for that oil money.
This is why the sport needs better, fairer and more evenly distributed wealth. And need to allow athletes multiple sponsorship avenues
When you have most athletes barely able to support themselves and then the elite few above them buying sports cars for fun, it makes short cuts mighty tempting.
This is exactly on point. Athletes get zero share of TV revenue, are at the whim of race directors for appearance fees, can only have ONE sponsor on their shirt in a tiny box. The sport is a fucking joke - and that's why it is almost dead (no one cares outside of an Olympic games).
So to capture the small amount of $ - you pretty much need to dope. It's almost a winner take all market.
Of course she’s massively using, but over there they only care about the money they make. A ban of several years is a real biff to their wallet.
I say give her 4 years, minimum. She can live off her ill-gotten gains because there is zero possibility of executing any foreign judgment in Bahrain.
This should be made a criterion of IAAF membership, the domestic execution of foreign judgments—otherwise they just don’t care, go as long as they can before they get caught, and live happily ever after.
“Naser”, disgusting.
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the best female athletes (the other being siffan hassan) of the last couple of years, espacially 2019 now have an asterisk
genuinely one of the very the best young talents in the sport ever alongside ukraine's mahuchikh. had huge hopes for her...
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
The AIU just announced that Naser has been suspended for whereabouts failures. No further details at this time.
https://twitter.com/aiu_athletics/status/1268886551225946115?s=20
#2dagills
I hope they’re able to get her for an earlier test and vacate her gold from Doha. Miller-Uibo is the best women’s long sprinter on the planet.
Work Commute Track Club wrote:
ex-runner wrote:
Yeah. I think she is Nigerian and changed her name to run for that oil money.
This is why the sport needs better, fairer and more evenly distributed wealth. And need to allow athletes multiple sponsorship avenues
When you have most athletes barely able to support themselves and then the elite few above them buying sports cars for fun, it makes short cuts mighty tempting.
This is exactly on point. Athletes get zero share of TV revenue, are at the whim of race directors for appearance fees, can only have ONE sponsor on their shirt in a tiny box. The sport is a fucking joke - and that's why it is almost dead (no one cares outside of an Olympic games).
So to capture the small amount of $ - you pretty much need to dope. It's almost a winner take all market.
You're dead-on with this... add in the fact the per-capita income in most of these counties is nill and you have huge incentives to "go for it". One good year and they're set ;-)
Bahrain will do as they have done in the past.
You can say this is the end of her 400m domination.
Can we just state this is for missed tests not a failed test!
snarkatine sid wrote:
Work Commute Track Club wrote:
This is exactly on point. Athletes get zero share of TV revenue, are at the whim of race directors for appearance fees, can only have ONE sponsor on their shirt in a tiny box. The sport is a fucking joke - and that's why it is almost dead (no one cares outside of an Olympic games).
So to capture the small amount of $ - you pretty much need to dope. It's almost a winner take all market.
You're dead-on with this... add in the fact the per-capita income in most of these counties is nill and you have huge incentives to "go for it". One good year and they're set ;-)
The powers that run this sport have no interest in letting the athletes take their rewards for making this sport what it is.
I've said a few years ago, athletics needs a revolution. The elite athletes need to break away from the IAAF and set up a professional league of their own. A true professional league. Not this amateur system plus a little shoe sponsor money we have now.
Athletics as a sport pulls in billions of dollars a year. Billions. Most people have no idea. Meet organisers can afford to pay certain athletes hundreds of thousands of dollars in appearance fees. Yet in the same race you will have half the field who are there for free or actually used their own money to get there.
The IAAF have worked hard to ensure the power, control and money stays with them in this sport. They are slowly strangling it.
The doping problem won't be fixed by spreading the wealth, but it will definitely be reduced.
What excuse could she possibly have?
I think anyone who's been in the sport a while was highly suspicious. Pretty much everything about her screamed doper.
Why are people jumping on the nationality part? and also saying suspected all along, this is missed test!
Why vilify so quickly?
read this thread from the night she won and weep
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9627010#9627010
"How many times will Naser break 49 again in her career? Take your gold and run the hills"
"Wow, nearly a 1 second pr for Naser...so how long until she tests positive?"
"Her training partner was banned for steroids three months ago!"
"Given that it's implausible that she wasn't doping under the Bulgarian fella whose whole group was seemingly on steroids, what are the chances she's now clean (and considerably faster)?"
"In the week where Salazar went down - and every NOP athlete is being asked about it- perhaps it not so "fantastic" that an athlete linked to a doping coach is destroying everyone."
"Well we might have seen the legit WR... by SMU rather than Naser"
"This country sent the ridiculous Rashid Ramzi to championships while the rest of the world looked on in bemusement. There is something very wrong with the way t&f is being administered there."
AJ2000 wrote:
Why are people jumping on the nationality part? and also saying suspected all along, this is missed test!
Why vilify so quickly?
WRONG. It is THREE whereabouts failures within 12 months. Gaming the system.
Yowzzzza wrote:
Matt London was touting her performance as the fastest from a clean athlete.
Amazingly, given the stuff he says, I knew that this was the most absurd.
Flagrant!
This guy?
matt_london_413 wrote:
Do you see me here roasting alot of todays female olympic sprinters? No you don't. Because the majority of them are doing this naturally.
LOL