Gabby Thomas - formerly of Harvard - is cleared for 3 whereabouts failures after "new evidence" is provided

I just don't understand why every athlete wouldn't put their window from 5-6am. If you're a professional athlete, you'll take sleep seriously, so you'll be in bed. Worst case scenario, once every couple months you might lose out on an hour or two of sleep.

For a change....

On Twitter, Gabby says 2 of her missed tests were dropped.

https://twitter.com/itsgabriellet/status/1279455115368378368?s=21

Look for information to come out that shows she was basically targeted/screwed over. No accident she is a New Balance athlete and not a Nike athlete. Craziness.

We await the “undeniable factual evidence” that has apparently already been accepted by others.

Remember, they also accepted non-evidence such as kissing or sex, which are mere suggestions.

Is this going to be the location of her phone, I wonder.

Unbelievable... AIU:

In June 2020, Thomas provided new evidence that had not previously been disclosed to the AIU through the results management process.

Are you guys...disappointed she got cleared?

I say hooray, I'm sure she provided great evidence to get the decision reversed, and her reputation is restored in my mind.

To me, some of her reputation is restored. AUI looks bad to me since two of the missed tests were dropped. How could AUI screw up twice? It suggests to me that they need to do some sort of internal review of their procedures to understand why they screwed up and how to fix it so other athletes aren’t screwed.

ronpaul 2020 wrote:

Are you guys...disappointed she got cleared?

I say hooray, I'm sure she provided great evidence to get the decision reversed, and her reputation is restored in my mind.

Speaking for myself, what I want is the truth, and just outcomes.

We can all judge the quality of the facts and arguments, and credibility, for ourselves.

Being asleep and waiting for a knock at 5am is not considered “AVAILABLE” for testing in the eyes of the AIU. Unless you plan to be “AWAKE” every morning before 5am, it isn’t advisable to set your hour for that time.

I know the athletes are set their preferred hours, but do the doping protocol testers (or whatever they’re called) get to have a say in how early they can test (I.e., not before 5am or after midnight)? I keep seeing posters say “set your hour for first thing in the morning!” But I doubt there are enough testers available that early for testing to accommodate everyone if they do set it for 6am or 7am.

LetsRun.com wrote:

https://twitter.com/aiu_athletics/status/1279106112420229120

Anyone know where she can go to get her reputation back?

After the 4th of July holiday, we hope to figure out what the "new evidence" was.

These whereabout failure tests are getting to be a bit annoying. It shouldn't be that hard to figure out. We are advocating that testers use phones to document their attempts to test. With GPS and modern phone technology, what is debate about these days? There really should be almost next to zero debate about these things.

You can’t get your reputation back; that is the problem.

The WADA system pretends to have all the elements of a normal judicial system but it is infinitely more severe than one.

The burden is constantly on the athletes to prove their innocence.

The whole of the whereabouts system is a breach of human rights as those breaches are targeted at certain groups or individuals out of the millions who are subject to the doping rules.

Wada know this.

Human rights can’t be signed away on the basis that you want to do sports. Just like you can’t sign your health and safety rights away to get employment.

Nor can you sign your rights for non discrimination be signed away to do sport or be employed.

How does whereabouts work if you live in gated accommodation and the security refuse to allow the tester in?

I want to know how many they passed in that year, when they tell me how many they didn't turn up for.

There is no context for this. As this is random, I suspect they could turn up the day after a completed test.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Speaking for myself, what I want is the truth, and just outcomes.

We can all judge the quality of the facts and arguments, and credibility, for ourselves.

+1

We'll have to wait and see. According to her twitter, she proved that she was home. That can't really be by her cell phone coordinates, because they are not that precise. Witnesses maybe, as pointed out earlier.

In any case, Mo Farah was home when the tester came, and it still counted as a missed test. That means that she'd either had to prove that the tester didn't ring the bell or went to the wrong address (again, witnesses). Twice!

Be that as it may, this screw-up does indeed look terrible for AIU. Either gross incompetence or straight out corruption, following in the foot steps of the IAAF.

earlyriser wrote:

Being asleep and waiting for a knock at 5am is not considered “AVAILABLE” for testing in the eyes of the AIU. Unless you plan to be “AWAKE” every morning before 5am, it isn’t advisable to set your hour for that time.

Do you have anything to back up that being asleep is not considered available.

Surly is is if you answer the door.

Though if you are saying that no answering the door because you are asleep would not be an excuse.

She's still dirty. No clean athlete misses three tests, even if they end up thrown out on some technicality.

All this shows is that they don't care about weeding out cheats. All governing bodies should do everything possible to make sure not one athlete anywhere on the planet is taking anything even questionable even if it isn't banned yet.

hsisjegdus wrote:

She's still dirty. No clean athlete misses three tests, even if they end up thrown out on some technicality.

All this shows is that they don't care about weeding out cheats. All governing bodies should do everything possible to make sure not one athlete anywhere on the planet is taking anything even questionable even if it isn't banned yet.

What; even if the drug tester went to the wrong address?

Exactly her name is shiat now. But honestly she's not on the elite level anyway. Just a step below the studs. Hopefully the same thing happens with Coleman.