Has a Pro runner every been sabotaged by a competitor?

The french marathon runner Morhad Amdouni knocked over a bunch of bottles seemingly on purpose at the Tokyo olympics this past summer. I'm still surprised he didn't get some sort of suspension, shouldn't be allowed to run world athletics label races for a year. It was a hot day, I think he did it on purpose

Sabotage happens and it's incredibly hard to prove unless you have a confession from the saboteur or a witness to it:

- WADA V. Narsingh Yadav

- Anti-doping’s biggest secret

-Lifetime ban dropped after athlete’s former partner admits sabotage

Ben Johnson. His urine sample was not consistent with metabolites that would be produced from ingestion. He admitted using PEDs, but was adamant on this point.

In regard to doping, it’s extremely unlikely. The Harding case is the only proven sabotage I’m aware of.

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Thank you, I was going to bring this one up. The 1988 Olympic 100 meter dash is truly one of the most bizarre stories in track and field history. It is possible that Ben Johnson was sabotage, even though he actually was breaking the rules of the time. Crazy stuff.

Came here to say that Ben was definitely sabotaged. He cheated, but the tests weren't consistent with what he actually did. Charlie Francis is clear about this in his book too.

Mo Ahmed horse collar of Eric Avila.

This isn't sabotage by someone else, but at the English Schools one of my teammates threw her spikes over a fence to try to avoid the race (sabotage it), her dad went and collected them. When we were staying in a hotel one or two people used to knock on other peoples' doors to wake them up so they'd get a bad nights sleep. This is at a county/national/international level in the sense it was England vs Wales vs Scotland vs NI - not GB. Teenage girls (under-20/under-17).

Wasn't there spiked toothpaste? A German athlete? Dieter? Funnily enough I was thinking about this when I saw Keely Hodkinson being handed a water drink in cardboard packet. I know the official drinks are meant to be certified drug-free but it made me think how easy it could be for someone to spike them (like a volunteer).

I watched this Canadian documentary about it, "Ben Johnson: Drugs and the Quest for Gold". If I remember correctly, they concluded that Ben wasn't sabotaged, he had been accidentally taking the wrong drug. I am far from an expert on this matter, but the documentary was pretty convincing, and I refuse to believe someone slipped a bunch of powder into his beer and he didn't notice.

No, the point was that it must have been added directly to the sample, as it was not consistent with the metabolites produced after ingestion. In other words, if it was added to his beer, they would have found the usual metabolites, not the raw compound.

Can't believe anyone hasn't mentioned the most obvious and real and actual case of actual sabotage in T&F. Rod Dixon at 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games is ACTUAL sabotage.

Not saying you're incorrect, I'm truly not an expert about this. The documentary I watched it actually called "Race of the Century". One of Charlie's athletes handed over vials of what they believed were furazabol, but they were analyzed and turned out to be stanozolol. That's what the whole Dubin inquiry concluded. Do you mind pointed me to where it says the metabolites were not consistent?

Justin Gatlin.