Nnenna Lynch: NY Times: The "New York Road Runners Chose Her as Its Next Chairman. In 1996, She Failed a Doping Test."

I made this comment upthread, and it was inexplicably deleted, so I’m not sure if it will be again, but It seems sketchier to me that she claimed it was prescribed by a doctor for asthma than if it were in some over-the-counter cold medicine.

Just because something is a charity doesn't mean that the people running it should do charity work; it's not like putting on the NYC marathon is a side job. In order for NYRR to put on the best races they can, they should hire the most qualified people- and those people need to be payed adequately.

^ in response to above post

In the anti-doping challenge, your post implies that you're for a lifetime ban.

Since Lynch was formally investigated for the pseudophedrine violation by USATF and the IAAF 26 years ago - and her defense/explanation at the time was that it was due to a doctor's prescription for an asthma medication - then it's likely that back then she provided the investigating officials with documentation of the doctor's prescription as noted in her medical chart/records as well pharmacy records proving when and where she had the Rx filled.

Chances are good that she was advised at the time to keep a copy of all the documents related to the investigation and the ban just in case the issue ever came up again.

But even if Lynch didn't keep a copy of the records herself, I'd imagine that the USATF and the IAAF/WA must have archives of all the documents involved in all the doping investigations they've done over the years - particularly in cases where they found athletes to be in violation and issued a ban.

Yes. I'm for lifetime bans for MAJOR drug busts - not 3 month cold medicine bans - and only moving forward. Going back and applying today's morality to 25 years ago doesnt make sense in any walk of life.

This would be a total nothing story for me if they'd only responded and said, "Cold medicine used to be banned. She made a minor mistake but it reminds us that all people can make minor mistakes so we've updated our pollicy and only those who are banned for 2 years or longer are banned from our races."

I agree 100%. Journalist fact check as well. You simple express half baked opinions. By the way I tried to listen to the podcast!!! Please for the love of GOD do some research and get your fact right. You are always claiming to be a Journalist but are unable to get even the facts right.

Even better for your position: they'd have to say, "it was banned, then it wasn't, then it was again. [etc.]" Kind of takes the wind out of the absolutism sails.

Believe it or not there was out of competition testing and no-notice testing in the mid-late '80's and '90's. The rule was the same: if it's in your body you are responsible for how it got there.

It was a big deal when Lynch tested positive. Who would have thought a smart middle-distance runner would be stupid enough to take cold medicine without checking ingredients first? She wanted to be a pro runner and knowing the rules about doping is a big part of being an elite professional runner. The excuses used are always the same. The fact is she's got a drug ban on her resume and the NYRR has a zero-tolerance policy.

So many people here are saying that she either shouldn’t be the head of this organization or it needs to not have a zero-tolerance policy, and I can’t tell if they mean it rhetorically or not because there are so many anti-doping zealots around. But really, that a minor anti-doping infraction 26 years ago could prevent someone from volunteering their time to chair a running-focused non-profit is the best case against the zero-tolerance, lifetime bans that are proposed every time an East African athlete tests positive. It’s using a blunt tool to fix a problem that requires much more finesse.

Volunteering their time?

It’s a volunteer position a chair of a non-profit board. NYRR also recently hired a CEO, which is the top paid position in the organization and is accountable the board.

Please email me or call me and tell me how i wans't factual.

robert@letsrun.com 844-538-7786 ext 3

All those Villanova girls were hot and could get away with anything!

So we're supposed to take YOUR word for this? Make documentation available to us all, or else STFU! Whether it's true or not can't be established, unless you're willing to take affidavits from some of those high school-aged kids about what those little pills did, not that it's enough to prove anything, and that ain't gonna happen.

By the way, Not fair, not clean ran a 3-minute mile, because I said so. It has to be true, right? I mean, I posted it here, so I expect many readers to believe it is true.

Who are "they?"

Who, her?

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"I think nearly everyone is onboard for the lifetime bans, holding agents coaches responsible. A few other things.

1) Keep all Olympic drug samples for 20 years. IN the past, they've kept some for 10 years but then it made me suspicious as hell when they threw about a bunch of hte 2004 samples without testing them."

The above is what you said in your only post in that thread. No qualifiers. Then you said 20 years is good for past samples and suggest that 2004 stuff should be fair game. Close to 20 years makes sense in any walk of life but not 25? (Yes, I know you're going to say "I only meant Olympics" but your "today's morality" statement didn't have that qualifier either.)

I posted the WADA prohibited list below. I'm curious to see what out of this list would constitute a lifetime ban? I mean I have no idea what 85-90% of this stuff is (I know the general categories), and I'm fluent in English, with the 10-15% I'm familiar with because of IVF and my wife's pregnancy.

I did weed a few times a long time ago, briefly had an asthma inhaler (misdiagnosed) that probably had something, cough medicine growing up I'm sure, probably had stuff during mouth surgery as a kid, a blue and yellow pill some guy on a plane with a metal plate in his head gave me because of my debilitating headache on a plane, and had topical stuff for eczema a long time ago (allowed I guess). What would be a fair ban if I got caught with all that now in comp?

Edit: Holy crap, Mannitol is in this list? Like the sweetener in a million things?

Edit2: Oh intravenous. Geez.

Nice pic