The Brits are still upset about their Euro loss to the Italians. They have been bashing Jacobs since he won and the Brit false started. Sort of glad the Italians got them on the line in the 4x100.
Here was another article after he won that was posted on the front page:
Brits are the worst losers on the planet.
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
uu.uuu wrote:
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
The AIU has got to get faster on this tbh. They have some highly irrelevant athletes they test, but don't move quickly enough to test athletes who win DL races (Katir) or run world-class marks (Jacobs, Paulino in the 400m). I would like to see them more dynamically target athletes who run marks in the top 5-10 on the world's list.
He went from off the grid to being the most investigated track and field athlete in the world. Most obvious PEDer I've seen in a while.
uu.uuu wrote:
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
Bit like a 1500m runner who improved by 10 seconds in 1 year.
El Keniano wrote:
Brits are the worst losers on the planet.
If this guy was British and this story came out, would you still be defending him?
Birkoboy wrote:
uu.uuu wrote:
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
Bit like a 1500m runner who improved by 10 seconds in 1 year.
It's pretty funny to go back and watch some of the 1500 races from 2004 with Ramzi in them.
"He's made amazing strides this season, lowering his personal best from 3:38 to 3:30..."
trollism wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Brits are the worst losers on the planet.
If this guy was British and this story came out, would you still be defending him?
No, because it's quite plausible the British, with a grand total of zero busts (not including party boy Oliver Dustin's recent cocaine "mix-up") are involved in some degree of cover-up because zero busts in any sport is statistically impossible. Walk into your local gym and likely to be in the company of a good number of PED abusers.
Please don't be like the Norwegian posters here claiming that Norway as country is on a different plane morally and ethically than the rest of the world.
they are not?
El Keniano wrote:
trollism wrote:
If this guy was British and this story came out, would you still be defending him?
No, because it's quite plausible the British, with a grand total of zero busts (not including party boy Oliver Dustin's recent cocaine "mix-up") are involved in some degree of cover-up because zero busts in any sport is statistically impossible. Walk into your local gym and likely to be in the company of a good number of PED abusers.
Please don't be like the Norwegian posters here claiming that Norway as country is on a different plane morally and ethically than the rest of the world.
I'm not claiming anything. I'm just enjoying your cynical double standard.
I do enjoy the whole 'Britain must be the worst dopers because so few of their athletes are caught cheating' angle though. Classic bad mama.
trollism wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
No, because it's quite plausible the British, with a grand total of zero busts (not including party boy Oliver Dustin's recent cocaine "mix-up") are involved in some degree of cover-up because zero busts in any sport is statistically impossible. Walk into your local gym and likely to be in the company of a good number of PED abusers.
Please don't be like the Norwegian posters here claiming that Norway as country is on a different plane morally and ethically than the rest of the world.
I'm not claiming anything. I'm just enjoying your cynical double standard.
I do enjoy the whole 'Britain must be the worst dopers because so few of their athletes are caught cheating' angle though. Classic bad mama.
Still convinced that account is either Coevett or yourself.
Zero busts. Except for Linford Christie, Dwayne Chambers, Carl Myerscough, Christine Ohuruogu (whereabouts failure).
El Keniano wrote:
Still convinced that account is either Coevett or yourself.
Look. Everybody knows you're not Kenyan. Why do you still pretend that you are?
Remember that time you told everyone you were at the World Cross and then couldn't post a single picture?
You're a very dishonest person. A very bad mama.
The non-Italian stallion wrote:
Doping?
https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/07/police-probe-lamont-marcell-jacobs-nutritionist-15052789/?ito=newsnow-feed
Alleged link. This "Nutritionist" is claiming he supplied Jacobs with steroids.
Must be true, right? I read it on letsrun so it must be.
Birkoboy wrote:
uu.uuu wrote:
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
Bit like a 1500m runner who improved by 10 seconds in 1 year.
Not the same comparison. One is a 26 year old man who went from #33 in the world in 2019 to gold medalist in 2021. The other is a young kid who trained on 30 miles per week through high school and was just introduced to mileage during his freshman year of college. If he had been training 80 miles per week as a high schooler, one could question his dramatic improvement, but given he was training on such moderate mileage, his dramatic improvement is not that unusual.
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
uu.uuu wrote:
This was news to me:
Given the recency of his emergence, Jacobs was not included in the Athletics Integrity Unit’s drug testing pool, which targets the world’s best athletes.
The AIU has got to get faster on this tbh. They have some highly irrelevant athletes they test, but don't move quickly enough to test athletes who win DL races (Katir) or run world-class marks (Jacobs, Paulino in the 400m). I would like to see them more dynamically target athletes who run marks in the top 5-10 on the world's list.
The AIU is pretty useless. I get the vibe they are either poorly managed, poorly funded, or a combination of both. Was chatting with an athlete back in June who is in the AIU testing pool and anti-doping came up as Shelby Houlihan's ban had just come up. Had some interesting insights, but amongst other things they shook their head saying how useless the AIU was given they'd been tested just 6 times since Doha 2019 (they finished top 6 in both Doha and Tokyo). They lived and trained with another athlete who medaled in both Doha and Tokyo and similar thing. That athlete was like "honestly if they aren't testing me, wtf are they doing with all the athletes behind us?"
It was a strange conversation where they both seemed demoralized that they weren't tested more, because of the implication that there would be other athletes tested even less.
USADA has gotten better with expanding their testing pool, but again, there are athletes (who made world/Olympic teams) I know who quite literally had to beg USADA to not remove them from their testing pool. And then you have situations like Woody Kincaid being tested 2-3 times 2019-2020 despite running 12:58 (absolutely not accusing Kincaid of anything, just that if you are running sub 13, you should be tested more than a couple of times across two years).
I think that if you podium at in a DL section, or run below a certain mark, that should be an automatic inclusion in the world testing pool. Unfortunately I think the AIU don't have the budget to consistently test that many people.
quark wrote:
they are not?
Do they have locks on their doors in Norway? Do they have prisons and crimes and thieves and conmen? They're not specail.
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