Bahrain's world 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser (48.14 pb) suspended for whereabouts failures

thank you wrote:

she is innocent until found guilty.

just like Usain.

Innocent... sure. Like Gabrielle Thomas, Deajah Stevens, Alex Korio, and Michelle-Lee Ahye? Or innocent like, say, Christian Coleman? Or perhaps Christine Ohuruogu?

LOL, I remember, Ahye didn't "hear" the tester, like Farah and Thomas.

ex-runner wrote:Why was she not banned before the championships?!

Right now we only have her side of the story. But assuming she is correct:

1) We don't know how close to the championships the third missed test was, and the AIU needs to double check everything before provisionally banning someone. Eight months of course is ridiculously long.

2) Normally these bans start at the date of the third missed test, meaning she will lose the Gold and the Asian Record.

casual obsever wrote:

ex-runner wrote:Why was she not banned before the championships?!

Right now we only have her side of the story. But assuming she is correct:

1) We don't know how close to the championships the third missed test was, and the AIU needs to double check everything before provisionally banning someone. Eight months of course is ridiculously long.

2) Normally these bans start at the date of the third missed test, meaning she will lose the Gold and the Asian Record.

I wonder if in fact she had two missed tests prior to the competition and the third was afterwards, perhaps in this year.

It does startle me the number of professional athletes that don't seem to think that missing tests is a big deal when they get caught for an infraction.

I remember a similar response from Christian Coleman.

or that...

c) the coronavirus has put drug testing on hold since february. People are not being test this year not only in Barhain, but everywhere, which is a real concern.

answer b) is unlikely since she actually missed three drug tests why would they announced that one of their World Champs missed tests, rather than putting it under the carpet.

As for people who are saying that Cathy Freeman is the real WR holder because rigorous Aussie testing. Please give me a break, she is part of a generation of likely dirty Australian athletes. The whole Sydney Olympics were a joke. EPO was completely undetectable and even a few sprinter (Marion Jones) took the risk to try it .

Between the mid 1990s and 2002, australian male swimmers (Thorpe, Hackett, Perkins) took the 400m World record from 3'45 to 3'40, they also smashed the soviet held 1500m record. A 400m in swimming is in a similar time range than a 1500-MIile in track (so EPO works well for this distance). Ian Thorpe (who was also a huge star at a young age due to her outstanding talent) especially completely rewrote the record book from 1999 to 2002.

1999 to 2002 is the period when :

Morroccans and Kenyans toyed with 1500m T&F record. Look at the times from this period.

Lance Armstrong began its incredible TDF winning streak.

A significant increase in the performance in Winter cross-country skiing.

What do you think is the common point between those three facts ^^ ?

Somehow, Ian Thorpe who was 1.96 cm(6'5)/104kg (229lbs) BMI = 27, a man with the physique of a modern heavyweight boxer, ended up destroying a middle distance / highly aerobic event like if it was nothing during that period ? With his last WR broken in 2002, at 20, one year before the first reliable rhEPO anti-doping test was made (Bernard Lagat was the first "victim" of it in 2003 ) ?

Swimming record are being broken every year, however Thorpe's 400m textile record still stands, 18 years after, which is an eternety in this sport (it took a now banned 'supersuit' to break it by 0.01s, seven years laters by a guy who was 3-4s away in textile ) .

Even the convicted doper and 400m specialist Sun Yang could not break it (sure, EPO usage is detectable nowadays, so you have to limit yourself and use less potent drugs).

It became diffcult to use EPO in the mid 2000, so the reliance on steroids which are less efficient for this type of effort.

Rigorous anti-doping Australian testing back then? Please, let me laugh, Cathy Freeman was the icon of the 'Millenium Games', she was everywhere . She is definetely the kind of athlete who would have benefited of ASADA's leniency...

She was "glowing" in Doha. I assume everyone else was thinking this watching last year's 400m final...

World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser missed four anti-doping tests rather than the three she claimed, says the Athletics Integrity Unit.

The Bahraini, 22, ran 48.14 seconds - the third-fastest time in history - to claim the world title in Doha in 2019.

In an Instagram live video, she said she "only missed three drug tests" before the World Championships, which she described as "normal".

But the AIU says there was a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020.

She has been provisionally suspended.

In a statement, the AIU said: "The investigation into Ms Naser's three whereabouts failures in 2019 was ongoing at the time of the Doha World Championships and she was not provisionally suspended at that time.

"Following conclusion of the investigation and a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020, a notice of charge was issued and Ms Naser subject to an immediate provisional suspension.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/52956011

Speak Up wrote:

World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser missed four anti-doping tests rather than the three she claimed, says the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Hahahahahaha. Getting better and better. Subway had it right again!

This is the AIU’s statement.

https://twitter.com/aiu_athletics/status/1269577422590160899?s=21

ajatipic wrote:

Rigorous anti-doping Australian testing back then? Please, let me laugh, Cathy Freeman was the icon of the 'Millenium Games', she was everywhere . She is definetely the kind of athlete who would have benefited of ASADA's leniency...

A terribly foul campaign of you to try smear Cathy Freeman by linking her to swimmers. I've known the people that managed and coached Cathy during her career for a very long time and she was absolutely a legitimate athlete.

Speak Up wrote:

World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser missed four anti-doping tests rather than the three she claimed, says the Athletics Integrity Unit.

The Bahraini, 22, ran 48.14 seconds - the third-fastest time in history - to claim the world title in Doha in 2019.

In an Instagram live video, she said she "only missed three drug tests" before the World Championships, which she described as "normal".

But the AIU says there was a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020.

She has been provisionally suspended.

In a statement, the AIU said: "The investigation into Ms Naser's three whereabouts failures in 2019 was ongoing at the time of the Doha World Championships and she was not provisionally suspended at that time.

"Following conclusion of the investigation and a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020, a notice of charge was issued and Ms Naser subject to an immediate provisional suspension.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/52956011

What a load of sh*t.

Burn this sport to the ground.

It needs rebuilding from scratch.

Just like athletes living and training in Western Europe and North America, Naser has NEVER tested positive. People think I'm a hater, but a system with a bust rate that hovers around 0% in those countries - excluding, of course, Kenya where doping is "crude, unsophisticated and opportunistic" - is highly suspicious.

I've always said a random test of recreational gyms in any part of the world would easily indicate significant PED use. To try and make it like no one in these countries cheats is ludicrous.

rekrunner wrote:

Feel free to disregard any opinions if I express them.

But you shouldn't disregard any facts, if I express them.

I'm aware of the charge, and the penalties. That was already clear enough before.

I'm fine with the rules, and I don't play the sport.

Nothing you said has addressed anything I said.

Is this a Haiku?

El Keniano wrote:

Just like athletes living and training in Western Europe and North America, Naser has NEVER tested positive. People think I'm a hater, but a system with a bust rate that hovers around 0% in those countries - excluding, of course, Kenya where doping is "crude, unsophisticated and opportunistic" - is highly suspicious.

I've always said a random test of recreational gyms in any part of the world would easily indicate significant PED use. To try and make it like no one in these countries cheats is ludicrous.

No, people think you're a fool

Whenever I think of Bahrain, I think of Rashid Ramzi sandbagging at the 2008 Olympics to try and hide the fact that he was in 3:24 shape from all the drugs.

casual obsever wrote:

Speak Up wrote:

World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser missed four anti-doping tests rather than the three she claimed, says the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Hahahahahaha. Getting better and better. Subway had it right again!

Naser is further proof that you can't get to the top of this sport now without rousing legitimate suspicions.

Anybody who has that many tattoos would cheat.

---waltertompatton, registered

Left Said Fred wrote:

ajatipic wrote:

Rigorous anti-doping Australian testing back then? Please, let me laugh, Cathy Freeman was the icon of the 'Millenium Games', she was everywhere . She is definetely the kind of athlete who would have benefited of ASADA's leniency...

A terribly foul campaign of you to try smear Cathy Freeman by linking her to swimmers. I've known the people that managed and coached Cathy during her career for a very long time and she was absolutely a legitimate athlete.

FACT: In the years up to and including the Sydney Olympics the testing by ASADA went in to overdrive, any Australian doping would have been caught for sure, especially a high profile one.

At any time, Australia is the last place you want to be if you intend doping.

Real football is what I'm talking about. wrote:

Left Said Fred wrote:

A terribly foul campaign of you to try smear Cathy Freeman by linking her to swimmers. I've known the people that managed and coached Cathy during her career for a very long time and she was absolutely a legitimate athlete.

FACT: In the years up to and including the Sydney Olympics the testing by ASADA went in to overdrive, any Australian doping would have been caught for sure, especially a high profile one.

At any time, Australia is the last place you want to be if you intend doping.

Do you have proof of that? A link or something to back up your claims? ?