Nijel Amos Banned for 3 Years for GW1516

How is this new?

If you read the tweet you mentioned:

"starting from July 12, 2022"

Is GW1516 really worth the risk? If you’re going to cheat, cheat right. The ban is the same.

oops, I thought it said 2023. I'll take the blame for that one.

He needs to expose his network. Who provided him with that peptide and how to use it?

Exactly, he needs to be coached to cheat right.

Sanction is new, just notified by the AIU, banned for 3 years from July 12, 2022.

Who is Rae?

I doubt Raestake was talking about this, he tends to focus on sprinters. But he's been wrong before, remember this?

On one hand, yes I agree. On the other hand, SARMs are so easy to get. There's teenagers taking them on TikTok and telling you where to buy them. You can just google them. A lot are sold as "research chemicals" and not labelled for human consumption. Same way drug analogues and things like synthetic phenethylamines are sold.

Who is Rae and why does anyone care?

Why do people do this?

Surely it would be better to just go train at altitude and run 120 mpw with good nutrition, physio etc rather than putting untested carcinogenic drugs in your body?!

Rae was probably referring to the death of Tori Bowie. He focuses on sprints.

It's interesting how many athletes are admitting to the offense now that you get a one-year reduction in your ban. That never used to happen. Amos seemed to play every card he had -- get the B sample tested, then get his supplement tested, and when neither of those worked, admit to it and take the 3 years.

At his age it surprises me...Maybe he thinks at 31 he can still put together results or get an appearance fee at a couple of places.

Coevett just got really excited, and not in an innocent way either...

And that of course assumes that his age is accurate. He was officially only 18 when he ran 1:41.73 as you know to get Silver in 2012.

Whatever age he was in 2012, he came back, I think, nine years later to run 1:41 again, which was unprecedented. I was not in the least surprised that he was doping, though surprised he was popped.

Some more details according to the official report:

1. He requested to have his B-Sample tested - it confirmed the A-Sample. (September 2022)

2. He said it was due to contamination of a certain supplement - The supplement (one opened and one sealed bottle) was then tested for the proh. substance and it was not found. (February 2023)

3. He accepted the 3 year ban (April 2023)

Fair though he ran super-fast in his mid/late 20s or potentially 30s which isn’t common (even if doped) in the 800.

His IG has been interesting. No denials, no admissions. Wonder if he’ll come clean.