#3 400m Runner of All Time Naser Escapes Ban Over Technicality

Looks to me like it's a missed opportunity to ban someone who I would consider very likely to actually be doping. Regardless of whatever explanation, it's sad that she got away with it on a technicality.

Same thing for Christian Coleman and his first issue with whereabouts. While I think Coleman is less likely to be doping than Eid Naser, it's pretty sad that he could have three violations in a span of 12 months and be cleared because of some convoluted rule.

I'm highly skeptical of any of the hired mercenaries to Bahrain and the like. Ruth Jebet, Albert Rop, Hassan Chani, Oluwakemi Adekoya, Eunice Kirwa, etc.

Also, why do these cases take months and months to sort out? We still have no news about Coleman.

disappointing wrote:

Looks to me like it's a missed opportunity to ban someone who I would consider very likely to actually be doping. Regardless of whatever explanation, it's sad that she got away with it on a technicality.

Same thing for Christian Coleman and his first issue with whereabouts. While I think Coleman is less likely to be doping than Eid Naser, it's pretty sad that he could have three violations in a span of 12 months and be cleared because of some convoluted rule.

I'm highly skeptical of any of the hired mercenaries to Bahrain and the like. Ruth Jebet, Albert Rop, Hassan Chani, Oluwakemi Adekoya, Eunice Kirwa, etc.

Also, why do these cases take months and months to sort out? We still have no news about Coleman.

Definitely agree with you on all counts. It sounds like a messy system unfortunately. It is interesting that during 2020, a year when most of us stayed at home more than any other year in the past, so many people couldn't be found at their homes to be drug-tested.

I definitely am very skeptical of Naser at this point. Coleman...I'm skeptical of him as well, but, as you said, we don't know what will ultimately happen to him yet.

Well, the tester knocking on the wrong door is on the whole a better reason to let her off the hook than Coleman's indignation about the testers not calling him. But, four whereabouts failures in a bit over a year makes it pretty clear what she was up to.

arte wrote:

Well, the tester knocking on the wrong door is on the whole a better reason to let her off the hook than Coleman's indignation about the testers not calling him. But, four whereabouts failures in a bit over a year makes it pretty clear what she was up to.

Does pretty much everyone on here think she's doping? Anyone think she's clean?

What about Coleman?

GoldenMile wrote:

https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/salwa-eid-naser-escapes-ban-on-technicality-1039936608/

Sounds like she somehow didn't get in trouble because one of the three tests she missed involved a tester knocking on a storage unit door instead of her apartment door? Pretty BS in my opinion. As was rightly pointed out on the LR main page, this is the year of everyone avoiding doping testing. I'm sure they all have convenient excuses.

I tend to err on the side of innocent until proven guilty, but it just seems like people can get away with not being tested as much as they want lately. It's infuriating to be honest.

What do you guys think?

Saved by tester incompetence.

GoldenMile wrote:

https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/salwa-eid-naser-escapes-ban-on-technicality-1039936608/

Sounds like she somehow didn't get in trouble because one of the three tests she missed involved a tester knocking on a storage unit door instead of her apartment door? Pretty BS in my opinion. As was rightly pointed out on the LR main page, this is the year of everyone avoiding doping testing. I'm sure they all have convenient excuses.

I tend to err on the side of innocent until proven guilty, but it just seems like people can get away with not being tested as much as they want lately. It's infuriating to be honest.

What do you guys think?

Disgusting. A mockery of the sport.

I would like to see stats on whereabouts successes. Missed tests sometimes honestly happen, but there is a huge difference between missing 3/3 non-competition tests and 3/12.

GoldenMile wrote:

As was rightly pointed out on the LR main page, this is the year of everyone avoiding doping testing.

The test was last year before Doha so long before COVID19.

Shes a doper.some tell tale signs are there,if you know where to look.Same with coleman.All the americans use cocktails of drugs,so if youre fast,and american,youre a doper.Salwa eid nasser is magnificant to watch,much like marita koch was in the 80s,but like koch,shes using.

GoldenMile wrote:

Definitely agree with you on all counts. It sounds like a messy system unfortunately. It is interesting that during 2020, a year when most of us stayed at home more than any other year in the past, so many people couldn't be found at their homes to be drug-tested.

Coleman and Naser's missed tests both happened before the pandemic.

Armstronglivs wrote:

GoldenMile wrote:

https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/salwa-eid-naser-escapes-ban-on-technicality-1039936608/

Sounds like she somehow didn't get in trouble because one of the three tests she missed involved a tester knocking on a storage unit door instead of her apartment door? Pretty BS in my opinion. As was rightly pointed out on the LR main page, this is the year of everyone avoiding doping testing. I'm sure they all have convenient excuses.

I tend to err on the side of innocent until proven guilty, but it just seems like people can get away with not being tested as much as they want lately. It's infuriating to be honest.

What do you guys think?

Saved by tester incompetence.

actually she was saved by tester competence. She gave the wrong main address, he found the right one, but once at the right address he got confused by the sub addresses. he didnt go through a door he said was locked; she claimed it was just closed and if he had gone through it he would have found her.

she should have been busted for giving the wrong main address, and would have been if the tester had stayed at the incorrect given address.

was she tested? no. why not? wrong and unclear address in a clearly confusing situation.

But Bahrain pay for athletes, so........

Clean athletes should be able to anonymously demand an appeal. How does anyone take this sport seriously?

If she can't log into the system and update it herself she shouldn't be competing.

I wanted to live in storage. it's illegal. who were they expecting to find there? eis naser has money.

dullard wrote:

GoldenMile wrote:

As was rightly pointed out on the LR main page, this is the year of everyone avoiding doping testing.

The test was last year before Doha so long before COVID19.

True. I guess everyone is finally getting busted for it this year. So the implication is that lots of people were trying to hide whatever drugs they were on for last year's World Championships.

arpy wrote:

I would like to see stats on whereabouts successes. Missed tests sometimes honestly happen, but there is a huge difference between missing 3/3 non-competition tests and 3/12.

Agreed. I could see a missed test, but I would imagine after you missed one test, you'd be especially anal to not miss another, as you know that your career is on the line.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Saved by tester incompetence.

And the stupid backdating rule, as her other three whereabout failures occurred within ten months. But the second one was backdated from mid March to early January (which saved Coleman the first time too).

Both are quite obvious test dodgers, each with four missed tests within 1.5 years or so.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Saved by tester incompetence.

And the stupid backdating rule, as her other three whereabout failures occurred within ten months. But the second one was backdated from mid March to early January (which saved Coleman the first time too).

Both are quite obvious test dodgers, each with four missed tests within 1.5 years or so.

Tester knocking on the wrong door is legitimate, but not having the correct phone number in the system is not, nor is the claim she never could figure out how to do it, nor calling her helper at 2:30 a.m. about changing her phone number in the system or her whereabouts, I forget which it was. Nor being absent from three other tests in just over a year. These athletes paid to run for a middle east country have been doping at high rates over the years and this was a very, very clear case of a doper. Any woman running low 48 is highly suspect anyway.

It was a technicality. The freakin drug tester was so stupid he couldn't find her lol.

Love Naser. Can't wait for her to win gold in 2021.

Plus she's freaking smoking.