I saw reference to this in another post. I'm pretty sure she was convicted on the t/e ratio test (we can discuss the validity of this test without a carbon isotope test in this thread too) but I don't think she was ever cleared in her doping case.
Can anyone explain?
She was not cleared, She served her two year sentence.
She was suing the federation but agreed to drop the case since she had no grounds, and the sentence was already served.
She failed carbon isotope test as well.
She was cleared all right, and it went straight down her leg.
Interesting--so I guess that means she was lying when she said, as quoted in today's New York Times:
“The case was dismissed; they couldn’t prove anything, and that was the end of the story,” Pippig said, referring to her 1998 drug test. “And believe me — I couldn’t work with anyone if I did it.”
The funny thing is that the Times could have checked their own archives for this information. Not a good day for the fact-checker.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A03EEDE133FF934A25754C0A96F958260
PLUS: ROAD RUNNING; Pippig Suspension For Drugs Upheld
Published: July 17, 1999
The German Athletics Federation upheld a two-year ban of the marathon runner Uta Pippig yesterday, saying there was no doubt that she had used performance-enhancing drugs.
Pippig, who won the New York City Marathon in 1993 and the Boston Marathon from 1994-96, lives most of the year in Boulder, Colo., where she tested positive in April 1998 for abnormally high levels of testosterone, a male sex hormone.
Pippig, 33, was banned for two years but appealed to the German federation, asserting that the testosterone abnormalities had been caused by a medicine for a viral infection. The ban runs through April 22 next year.
Mork will still deny this.
I thought that was odd, too. I don't recall any decision that overturned her suspension. If anyone here knows what she's talking about, I'd like to hear it. I'm a bit skeptical of the T/E ratio test, but that's no justification for her statement about what occurred following the announcement of the positive test.
By the way, didn't she admit that she was doping when she was in the East German training program?
maybe she meant her own case was dismissed
What we have learned from the Landis case is the t/e ratio is too unstable and subject to false positive for a positive test. You also need a CIR (Carbon Isotope Ratio) and longitudinal study. Pippig would not have an AAF today based on a t/e ratio alone.
Better running through chemistry. She's still cute though.
I never had heard she was cleared. I know there are problems with the t/e test. But if that is the case she shouldn't say she was cleared unless she really was.
Her NY Times quote was "“The case was dismissed; they couldn’t prove anything, and that was the end of the story,” Pippig said, referring to her 1998 drug test. “And believe me — I couldn’t work with anyone if I did it."
I had never heard that before. I googled Pippig and dismissed and found this quote: "No. All [of the evidence] that we brought to explain the case was dismissed. They didn't even talk to my physicians; they never talked to a drug-testing person. They just said "She did it; that's it." They don't even have a good chain of custody [for urine samples]. So many mistakes, if you look at the case. I'm still able to fight and to have the energy for it. Every day there are at least 5 minutes when I think about it. "
Perhaps that is what she means when dismissed? Or maybe it really was dismissed. Hopefully we'll get some clarification.
she was definitely dirty in boston.
I asked Uta about this a few years ago and she said it was "politically motivated."
Now I'm not about to go against science, the T/E Test, the Carbon Isotope test or anything, I'm just quoting what she said.
Personally, I want to believe Uta was clean because she is one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Because she won?
Oh, I get it. Nevermind.