The Issam Asinga Case: Did The Fastest High Schooler Ever Test Positive After Eating Gatorade Gummies Or Is It An Evil Coverup?

Mind blowing.

None of this information is new and the tribunal had all this information when Asinga was handed a ban.

When you go from 10.4 to 9.8 in a year..People are gonna look at you with a side eye..Even Marion Jones wasn't dropping world leading times in high school..I'm sorry but your reason is some Gatorade gummies....Did anyone else get the gummies and test positive?

SARMs and PEDs are all over the high schools with a recent increase in young bodybuilders, led by Sam Sulek

It’s incredibly hard for me to believe he’s clean, especially when everybody knows this sport is dirty from the top. There are no good examples when things are this grey, the kids will make stupid decisions

That Instagram kid who just cooks workouts at 12yrs old should be added to the testing pool btw

i love what he’s doing

i dont trust his father

You again? I know you own this site, but when will you start being a responsible advocate of the sport instead of peddling inane conspiracies?

Asinga is GUILTY as sin.

Everyone who has ever tested positive tells crazy story about how the drugs "somehow" got in their system.

Nobody is buying his story. In my opinion he should be permanently banned for tampering with evidence.

It's pretty clear he (or someone in his camp) tampered with the gummies before sending them in.

1) "the exterior of the gummies contained much higher concentrations of GW1516 than the interior of the gummies."

2) "The two gummies tested from the first container each featured a concentration of at least 610 ng of GW1516 per gummy. Meanwhile of the three gummies tested from the second container, the highest concentration of GW1516 was 1.5 ng per gummy, and one of the gummies did not test positive for GW1516 at all."

3) "the Lausanne lab did test a sealed container of Gatorade Recovery Gummies, which tested negative."

4) "lots 22092117150213 (the unopened gummies that contained no GW1516) and 22092117150234 (the supposed tainted gummies) were part of the same batch of 20,000 jars’ worth of gummies cooked on the same day."

This part is all you need to read:

"In the disciplinary tribunal hearing, which took place over Zoom on April 30, Martial Saugy, former director of the WADA-accredited lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, served as an expert witness for the AIU and noted that the exterior of the gummies contained much higher concentrations of GW1516 than the interior of the gummies.
“I cannot see how these results would be consistent with a contamination during the manufacture of the gummies,” Saugy said. “These results point to an adulteration of the gummies at a later stage.”"

You should have mentioned that in the original post. The kid is GUILTY.

Rojo, did you actually read the case file? The exterior of the gummies Asinga sent had about 100x the substance as the interior, which is inconsistent with contamination at the manufacturer but consistent with someone coating the gummies with drugs.

As are you planning on selling Letsrun shirts with a Gatorade bottle to fund his defense?

This board protects dopers again.

Interesting. Nice work JG. Now, keep digging.

The only supplements he was taking on the record were Robitussin and Gatorade recovery gummies? Does that not add to the absurdity here? My entire high school track team was devouring creatine, beta alanine, taurine, pre-workout, Flintstone vitamins, Four Loko... literally anything our moms would buy for us from GNC. You cannot convince me that a kid at a sports-oriented Florida boarding school wasn't taking a stack at least 30 syllables long.

Based on the article he sure looks to be guilty. It could be he is inadvertently guilty. I can easily imagine an adult with a financial interest in some high school kid, doping the kid. After all who contaminated the gummies to produce the alabi? Still I would bet on Asinga having doped and knowing he was doing it.

They were handed out at a US high school athlete of the year award ceremony. How many US high school athletes are even in the drug testing pool? Were any of the ones at that ceremony in the testing pool, besides Asinga?

The thing working most against Asinga is that the outside of the gummies have like 500x as much GW1516 as the inside of the gummies. That points to the gummies being adulterated after manufacturing, and likely after he tested positive.

The thing working most for him is that there were 20000 boxes made from a batch, and 12500 of them went onto the market, while 7500 of them went to get NSF certified. The 12500 ones were given an NSF safe label that they didn't earn, although the 7500 passed and were certified. Asinga's box was from the 12500 that were falsely given an NSF safe label, and even though multiple parties have asked Gatorade to send in an unopened box from the lot of 12500 (which they're required by law to keep some of), Gatorade has only sent in unopened boxes from the lot of 7500, which were NSF certified.

I've just assumed he was doping up until now, but Gatorade not sending in a box from Asinga's lot makes me far more skeptical than anything else. I don't know if he's doping, but he should absolutely sue Gatorade. He ran 9.89 in high school, and now he's not going to the Olympics, getting contracts, etc. If that all happened because Gatorade labeled something NSF certified when it wasn't, that's a massive deal. He doesn't really have a case imo if it didn't say NSF safe.

The article says those 2 plus melatonin and like 3 other supplements he was taking and sent in to get tested.

Good work. Now that he’s done with that piece, can you please have him look into the incredible progressions of Jessica Hull and other Australian distance running women on their Olympic team?

Asinga really should be banned for 8 years for tampering with the evidence by coating the gummies in GW1516. Would be easy to prove this by just subpoenaing his iMessage and WhatsApp history along with his emails to track his discussions and online purchase of doping products. But luckily for Asinga, the US Rodchenkov anti-doping criminal act was intentionally hobbled to prevent use against American athletes. Now, if Asinga was Russian or Kenyan then it would be a scorched earth investigation to show how clean Americans are.