Shaunae Miller-Uibo on Naser being cleared: "I cry foul play"

Completely agree with the sentiments.

Regardless of what you think of the athlete concerned, the actions and processes of the AIU have failed all elements of compliance. Really don't see how they get this so wrong!

I disagree that a suspension should have been in place though as long as...if....IF (as appears the case) an appeal is in place and information being gathered that would prove or disprove etc

But

a) no investigation of appeal should ever be that long!!! EVER!!!

b) the processes of the AIU should be tight enough that for "whereabouts" failure there should be little to zero scope for appeal (which then further shortens 'a')

I personally believe no lady can gt 48 without the aid of some fruit juice. So this is all some strange back and forth for no reason.

100% with Miller-Uibo on this one. She got ripped off a gold medal, to put it frankly.

so you're a very talented and clean female sprinter who put in her best efforts but ended up running 49.61?

it damages all runners ,she missed 4 tests.. That stinks to me 4!

SMU is hot

I actually think she should have been cleared.

If the drug tester knocks on the wrong door, that's not a technicality. that's a big deal.

But I'm less interested than the specifics of this case than having a desire to fix this moving forward. Big picture, here are my takeaways.

1) As I've repeatedly said on the podcast, the doubt about what happened in these cases is absurd. The tester should video very single attempt to drug test. I also think the whereabouts app on the athlete's phone should record their GPS position during the hour of their listed window (assuming they opt in to this). If these two things are enacted, then there should be no doubt moving forward asto what happened.

2) The delay is these cases is absurd. Why in the hell did they wait for 15 months to charge someone that missed three tests in March-April of 2019? That's unacceptable. And if you are going to wait that long to charge, you better as hell have an airtight case.

I do have two questions regarding the specifics to this case.

I would like to know what address was listed for the March 12 and 16 tests. Was it the same as the key April 12th test? If the tester was unsure of the address then, the athlete should be contacted immediately so you don't have some doubt a few months later.

One other key quesiton I have is, when does the AIU notify you of a whereabouts failure. For those of you that have read the whole decision, had she already been told of the March 12 and March 16 failures then the key April 12 case happened?

Its NOT 4. Its 2 over a one year period and 1 where the tester knocked on the wrong door. Please read the full report not just comment on an angry whim.

You may argue about the technicalities and details all you want, that's a bottomless pit and there have been other threads about it.

But let's talk about the TIMING here:

How was the athlete allowed to compete at Worlds? It's hard not to agree with Shaunae MU and suspect that "politics" played a role.

World Athletics had an interest in keeping Naser as a headliner for Worlds in October 2019. But Doping authorities should not be concerned with that whatsoever.

So - how were others provisionally suspended and Naser was not?

And then it makes sense to drag it out further so it's not "super obvious"...? that's speculation of course.

I don't know how AIU's process works, but with WADA, you get a written letter notifying you of a missed test within a few weeks (personal experience from 10 years back). And that's just for 1 test, not 4! They ask you to clarify in writing so they can determine if it's a missed test or a filing failure.

Likely conclusion: either World Athletics dragged their feet to make this process last forever or they actively discouraged AIU from going through with it.

Exactly! I’m not saying she’s clean but that should not have counted as a missed test from the beginning.

Belarussiya wrote:

I personally believe no lady can gt 48 without the aid of some fruit juice. So this is all some strange back and forth for no reason.

All depends on who you're talking about. If we are talking about Emily Diamond then yeah you can't.

But these women can naturally.

JJ, strange to mention Emily D?? lol

I do believe females can run 48! I even think they can run 47, given the times we are seeing in the 200.

As for the address situation, the incorrect address given initially, it was the testers resilience that he managed to locate the building at all and then the issue was the numbering of the apartments was completely messed up and frankly stupid.

He managed to get to the correct address for the hour stated but was knocking on an incorrect door (which was next to the other door!) don't know about you but I know when someone is walking past the drive never mind just outside the door knocking on a different door... every 5 minutes... for an hour!!

Lets just try flash back to her attitude when the news was released!??!!?!?

Yes, the simplest, and thus most likely explanation imho that explains all the various, different delays and the ridiculous clearing of this case, Coleman (testing started at 8:01 instead of between 7 and 8 thus the backdating), and Thomas (Uber receipt presented over half a year after the missed test) is that the system still thrives on corruption. Some things will never change.

As for Naser: four missed tests/whereabout failures, after removing the one with the wrong door, three remain between March 2019 and January 2020. Then came the good old backdating:

It seems a little self serving for Shaunae to pick apart this one person that happened to beat her. Unless she’s been just as critical over all violations, I think it’s kind of a bad look. Let someone else do the fighting on this one. Beat Naser at the Olympic.

I think Shaunae is an amazing runner. She will hopefully have her day in Tokyo. Yeah, she is also pretty hot.

murphya33 wrote:

Its NOT 4. Its 2 over a one year period and 1 where the tester knocked on the wrong door. Please read the full report not just comment on an angry whim.

She did miss 4 consecutive tests, but not within one calendar year. Yeah - that's a doper.

Rainy Day wrote:

It seems a little self serving for Shaunae to pick apart this one person that happened to beat her. Unless she’s been just as critical over all violations, I think it’s kind of a bad look. Let someone else do the fighting on this one. Beat Naser at the Olympic.

I think Shaunae is an amazing runner. She will hopefully have her day in Tokyo. Yeah, she is also pretty hot.

Hot enough to set off a Geiger counter.

why would she always talk about every doper? that makes no sense. this affects her so she spoke up

Armstronglivs said:

Hot enough to set off a Geiger counter

she didn't and doesn't hide from it, douche