Brenda Martinez Doping/Depression NYTimes Article

Yes the same USADA who went to great expense to ban Armstrong and Salazar through non-analytical findings. I guess Tygart has his priorities.

In practice, keeping track of receipts, all your meals and medications, checking labels, and organizing lab testing of medication doesn't sound like a "very low" burden.

Testing a different batch of medication for contamination hardly makes any sense.

Every judgement from USADA can be appealed by WADA, so we are not just talking about USADA.

The US Ombudsman is not USADA.

krispy kremlin._._._._. wrote:

runnerboy70 wrote:

Like any absolute specialty (including training at an ultra high level for years surrounded by other elites some of whom are on something), you get an eye-sight for when things are astray. I'm not saying or confirming runnerboy70 has this experience or even saw Brenda run but I won't dismiss out of hand that someone (who claims to have "been there" in terms of upper-level performance), *knowing* when they see someone performing at a suspicious level.

I may be too skeptical myself on things but, with that said, the vast majority of people are way too naive... please stop falling for the smiley faces with the perfect white teeth.

Your comment reminds me of the TV commentary I recall hearing when Flo Jo shattered the 100 meters record in the Olympic Trials:

(paraphrasing based purely on memory)

Marty Liquori: Oh my. Noooooooobody's that fast.

Other Guy: Well, apparently she is, Marty. Blah, blah, blah, etc.

socialism agitator wrote:

Very irresponsible article. That first paragraph is acting like athletes are actually getting suspended for those reasons. (Afaik nobody has actually been suspended when those are the reasons they test positive.)

Also what a picture to use. Don't have one of her running? Gonna lean into the depression/mental anguish the whole time?

Finally, I hate how professional runners are just called "Olympians" like thats all they do. Either the writer isn't qualified to write about track, or the NYT editor doesn't trust the readers to understand anything besides "the olympics".

So you don't understand Olympian?

When asked about his failed drug test, Medina Spirit choose not to comment.

Very obvious the usa hides and defends us dopers. But everyone in the world already knows this. Even reasons like kissing are accepted in your corrupt country

We'd really have to know whether the thresholds for doping positives are first potentially the product of incidental consumption, as in tren in beef, and way, way below anything that could help. If both are the case, as we have heard repeatedly, then the testing standards have to be revised.

Because many can only have careers on drugs. If they get caught like Regina, nobody outside of Track cares. She and Lance just shrugs theirs shoulders and justifies it as part of the game.

runnerboy70 wrote:

I spent many years around steroid athletes and tried them myself for a brief period..

I know of which I speak.

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Nothing like an article about a female runner to get the incels riled up! 😆