Christian Coleman being invited to Millrose is exactly what is wrong with the sport

No, it's not wrong with the sport.

Coleman won, period.

He proved he belongs and should be the headliner.

ljs wrote:

No, it's not wrong with the sport.

Coleman won, period.

He proved he belongs and should be the headliner.

Probably still doping now,guy is a cheat and should be banned,period.

NERunner03533 wrote:

The sport incentivizes doping.

So do you. But you're not smart enough to know it.

The same thing was going through my mind. Coleman is dodgy af..

Don't hate Coleman for gaming the system, and serving his time. He had the right to compete.

Don't hate NBC/Millrose for using him to build up the status of the meet.

While I fully agree, even testing positive doesn't turn an athlete necessarily into a persona non grata. Just look at all the defenders of the various drug cheats like Gatlin ("he doped only once"), Kiprop ("something was wrong there"), Houlihan ("beef burrito"), and Decker ("menopause"), to name a few.

Even Double Doper Gatlin was gladly rehired by Nike, and, even more embarrassingly, Decker is still in our Hall of Fame. Some things will never change.

And then there is the whole stupidity of the NADOs, such as USADA being in charge of US athletes, letting them off the hook if they test positive (Wilson) or giving them warning calls so they can decide whether to get tested or hide (Coleman, Simpson). Not surprisingly it was AIU who had to come onto US soil to catch our last three stars (AR holder Houlihan + World champ Coleman + Olympic champ McLean).

But what about all the dopers and cheaters who don't get caught? They probably feel sorry for Coleman and think "that could've been me." Heck, even the clean athletes like a good comeback story. If he's clean, let him be. If he's still dirty though, I don't blame people for having animosity. But who knows at this point. If he's running similar marks, then he's probably still Saucing. What's he really got to lose anyways at this point? Even if he lived the rest of his life as the best human being in the world, many people would only think of him as a doping cheater. It's hard to truly know a person unless you spend a lot of time with them.

It was just an indoor race for local interest. Plus there's no huge international races for 2 and 1/2 years until 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

If an nfl player tests positive it's 4 games then they're back. Nba doesn't really even drug test because they don't want the bad publicity. Lebron obviously took PEDs. Mlb tests but some players are probably protected too. Track has extremely harsh penalties for individuals compared to other sports.

The Hollywood TV Moguls just want the money. They could care less if the guys drop dead from poisoning themselves the way they've doing more so than ever.

Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:

If an nfl player tests positive it's 4 games then they're back. Nba doesn't really even drug test because they don't want the bad publicity. Lebron obviously took PEDs. Mlb tests but some players are probably protected too. Track has extremely harsh penalties for individuals compared to other sports.

This is correct.

Gatlin’s first offense was for Ritalin. He was 19 and didn’t know about the TUEs. He later proved that he had been taking it since he was a child, before he even started running track.

And honestly, I do believe that during his era of doping, some athletes were doped without their knowledge via the clear. However, whether or not Justin told truth about being massaged with the clear has never been that important to me since his training group was dirty before he got there. Should’ve chosen a different group.

To me, same thing now with Jerry’s group. You have 1 athlete test positive, at least 1 athlete on the likely doping list, and a coach/team that has not distanced themselves from the positive athlete. A few athletes mysteriously left the group around the same time.

Served his ban, now he’s back. Cry about it. Oh wait, you are.

agreer wrote:

Served his ban, now he’s back. Cry about it. Oh wait, you are.

Figured there'd be responses like this but ya'll are the ones defending a drug cheat. You don't just miss 3 tests. It's 1000% in his interests to miss 3 tests than test positive. He can muddy the waters around his charges & come back without an actual positive.

I think that's a problem. I'm not crying about anything. I want the sport to prevent against this.

col_jessup wrote:

Don't hate Coleman for gaming the system, and serving his time. He had the right to compete.

Don't hate NBC/Millrose for using him to build up the status of the meet.

And Don't Look Up!!!!

Simply do not care.

Track needs all the great athletes it can get, and at the pro level the hell with how it is done.'

Sure sure at the HS/NCAA level, that is something different.

Coleman served his ban. Colemen runs at a minor indoor meeting, in the Winter, in a non-Olympic year. There's no major meets until the Summer Olympics in Paris 2024. Give Coleman a break please.

Gee Whiz calm down please wrote:

It was just an indoor race for local interest. Plus there's no huge international races for 2 and 1/2 years until 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

Hello? Dude, there's Worlds this year in OR and Worlds next year in Budapest. What on earth do you know of the sport? Given your comment, I suspect not much.

He did his time. It's the ones who get off on technicalities or litigation that you should worry about.