Posting link to the full table of all track field athletes USADA tested in 2023 and how many times. I think it’s good that Nuguse was tested 14 times - should give people some confidence that he is not using PEDs. Yes I know there are always new meds and methods, but anyway the full table shows some surprising counts.
“The number of samples USADA has collected is typically not the number of test sessions an individual athlete has been selected for during a given period, as multiple samples (e.g., blood, urine, Dried Blood Spot) are often collected during a test session.”
First of all distance runners need to worry about biological passports most , cause they dope with EPO and that is a natural hormone. Passing even 30 drug tests in a year doesn’t mean someone “isn’t taking drugs”. It could mean that they got tested at the right time.
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I looked through the whole list for 2023. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by how infrequently some of these guys are tested. I always thought USADA random testing was one of the best ways to deter doping, but if you only get tested 5 times a year, you can take a drug with a 24 hour half life with almost complete certainty you won't get busted.
I looked through the whole list for 2023. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by how infrequently some of these guys are tested. I always thought USADA random testing was one of the best ways to deter doping, but if you only get tested 5 times a year, you can take a drug with a 24 hour half life with almost complete certainty you won't get busted.
+1
Moreover, that includes in-competition (by USADA, not by AIU), plus as mentioned above, 5 tests might mean only 3 testing dates (2x blood + urine on the same time for example), and all of them in competition.
“The number of samples USADA has collected is typically not the number of test sessions an individual athlete has been selected for during a given period, as multiple samples (e.g., blood, urine, Dried Blood Spot) are often collected during a test session.”
You get a little better idea of frequency if you look at the tests by quarter rather than the year as a whole.
Why would Nuguse be tested that many times? That sets off more alarms than passing them? No?
14 isn’t too bad. Consider also he set multiple American records indoors and outdoors and I’m not exactly sure when he was added to the AIU RTP. USADA likely logistically ratifying those records and being judicious with a breakout athlete. Chelimo, Rojas and Jager are the ones that make me wonder if they were targeted.
