Olympic gold medallist Gil Roberts has been banned for 16 months after testing positive for two banned selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs).
The United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) announced today that Roberts has accepted a 16-month sanction after an out-of-competition urine sample collected on May 19 came back positive for andarine and ostarine.
Roberts argued that a dietary supplement which did not list the banned SARMs in its ingredients was to blame.
USADA accepted this, adding the supplement to its High Risk List, and therefore reduced the length of Roberts' ban.
It has been backdated to have begun on June 3, the date Roberts was provisionally suspended.
Athletes are still responsible for what enters their body and the risk of contaminated supplements has been publicised heavily.
SARMs are banned at all times and have similar properties to anabolic steroids, including aiding muscle growth or retention.
Roberts was in the US men's 4x400 metres team that won Olympic gold at Rio 2016.
US Olympic Gold Medalist Gil Roberts (4 x 400) Banned for Drugs, But Only For 16 Months as USADA Believes Him
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Is this the titan?
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LOL, yes, a titan like Armstrong.
But seriously, this is the guy who got off with the "but I kissed Salazar" excuse the last time he tested positive.
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cramister wrote:
Is this the titan?
Hahahaha! A guy who hasn't run well since 2018 and is 33+ years old. Yep, he's The Big One.
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Here is his last ban which he got overturned on appeal. It shows how broken the system is that you can blatantly lie like this and win a case:
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Roberts stated that Salazar had kept the illness hidden out of fear she wouldn't get to spend as much time with Roberts. Salazar testified that she'd gotten a sinus infection while on a family vacation in India where she then obtained a 14-day antibiotic - that is now out of production.
Claiming to have a disdain towards swallowing pills, Salazar testified that she would empty the capsule's contents on her tongue.
And three-hours after an intense bit of 'passionate kissing,' Roberts had to give a urine sample, she testified.112 -
Clearly a lie as this guy would never date someone with a disdain for swallowing...
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I miss the good old days when runners were banned for steroids. What the heck is an androgen receptor modulator?
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Someone else banned for not cheating.
Change the rules now to stop this.
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A 10.13 100m cat.
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AIU should appeal the case to CAS so it can be ruled on by a panel that's less biased than USADA.
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I told y'all the Brits are dirty! What was this one's excuse? Cleaning his crooked teeth with contaminated toothpaste? Disgrace that Kenya is banned and those cheating Brits are still allowed to compete.
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dullard wrote:
AIU should appeal the case to CAS so it can be ruled on by a panel that's less biased than USADA.
+1
It's also strange how little attention this thread gets. After all, this is an Olympic Gold medalist who just got caught with his second positive test, and actually our third Olympic Gold medalist who got banned in 21/22. And yet, letsrun's favorite doper has no global medal to speak of, at age 28 (now 29) yet her ban from 21 gets all the attention here, again and again. Hmmmm...
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dullard wrote:
AIU should appeal the case to CAS so it can be ruled on by a panel that's less biased than USADA.
What evidence do you have that usada is biased and what evidence do you have that CAS is biased?
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Well the fact that USADA added that particular supplement to their High Risk List means that he provided them with that particular supplement, it was tested, and was in fact shown to contain those ingredients despite not being listed. It could be intentional, it could be contamination from production...
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Hold on, Roberts tested positive for the same thing as Mead?? Ostarine. Makes it hard to believe neither were doping.
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Where theres smoke wrote:
Hold on, Roberts tested positive for the same thing as Mead?? Ostarine. Makes it hard to believe neither were doping.
Well ; USADA did not believe he was doping did they and they had a lot more information than you?
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Yotttiti wrote:
Where theres smoke wrote:
Hold on, Roberts tested positive for the same thing as Mead?? Ostarine. Makes it hard to believe neither were doping.
Well ; USADA did not believe he was doping did they and they had a lot more information than you?
Lol, what? Both got banned for doping, however lenient, one for 16 months and one for 36 months.
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casual obsever wrote:
Yotttiti wrote:
Well ; USADA did not believe he was doping did they and they had a lot more information than you?
Lol, what? Both got banned for doping, however lenient, one for 16 months and one for 36 months.
If you bothered to read properly; he did not get banned for doping. Why do you make things up you know are not true.
Or do you know more than USADA?
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Yotttiti wrote:
dullard wrote:
AIU should appeal the case to CAS so it can be ruled on by a panel that's less biased than USADA.
What evidence do you have that usada is biased and what evidence do you have that CAS is biased?
The USADA has never once returned a test for Lance Armstrong, Galen Rupp, or any NOP athlete.
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Yotttiti wrote:
casual obsever wrote:
Lol, what? Both got banned for doping, however lenient, one for 16 months and one for 36 months.
If you bothered to read properly; he did not get banned for doping. Why do you make things up you know are not true.
Or do you know more than USADA?
Why do you lie so much, and so obviously?
Of course he was banned for doping:
1) USADA officially said that he was sanctioned "for an anti-doping rule violation" after he tested positive for andarine and ostarine".
2) WADA officially calls such violations "doping" as shown to you numerous times.
3) Almost everybody calls getting banned after a positive test for a forbidden drug "doping".
Read and weep:
You of course have no source whatsoever, liar sorer. You just gotta keep trolling.
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