US 400 runner Obi Igbokwe is banned or tiny amount of drugs, yet Ajee Wilson and Jarrion Lawson skate? Explain the differencde

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3 years ago 04/10/2021 12:12am EDT

Can someone explain the difference in the cases?

Igbokwe, who won relay gold in 2019, says he tested positive for 10 picograms of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT) which according to him is the size of a grain of salt that has been cut into 187,000 pieces. Unlike Ajee and Lawson, however, he was banned as he "did not know where it came from"

So if he had a receipt from chipotle or something, would he have gotten off? I just don't get why he didn't get off and the others did.

Or is this drug not found in tainted beef?

3 years ago 04/10/2021 1:37am EDT

re: confused fan

Who tested him? Pretty sure with Wilson it was USADA, and there was a lot of evidence they were a lot more lenient that what WADA/the AIU are.

In any case, he’s a cheat. It’s not surprising - go check out the American team in the Sydney 4x400 and it’ll explain 2 things that still apply here:

1. Basically all American sprinters are cheaters

2. Some names are just too big to fail when USATF/WA have control - Wilson and Lawson and Johnson fall into this category. Igbokwe falls into the same category as the worst 3 men on that 4x400 team. Of course, the best was the only clean one.

3 years ago 04/10/2021 7:51am EDT

re: confused fan

Have to come up with an inventive, creative lie.

3 years ago 04/10/2021 10:53am EDT

re: confused fan

Track strikes again eating its own. At least he’s not a top talent. Only sport I’ve ever seen that actively works against the worlds best. Unless you transcend the sport like Bolt. Which was the right decision btw

Let them do it. No one cares. You want fast times, this is what it takes to run fast and stay healthy. .

3 years ago 04/10/2021 11:03am EDT

re: VroomVroom

FWIW, I've run 3:34 clean. I think I'm probably at about the same level as this guy. I also don't think I'm the fastest clean guy in the world.

And people wants races, not fast times. That's why more people watch the Olympics than Monaco Diamond League

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