Brahim Boulami: Busted B sample also EPO positive

I'm glad the B sample was a positive, so it's a clear-cut case of Boulami cheating rather than a nebulous result.

Link to the article...

Here is the direct link.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/sports/4067897.htm

Does anyone know how they decide how long the athlete is banned? I know the minimum is 2-years, but I hope that Boulami will get more than that -- two years is just a little slap on the wrist for what he has done. Mourhit got three years, so Boulami better get three years AT LEAST!

I say, BAN HIM FOR LIFE.

Put him in in jail and punish him by listening to Air Supply songs for two years.

Wait, if he's jailed he still got his 'prisoner' activities and would forget about the track stuff. It's better to let him training the whole 2 years without being sanctioned by the IAAF, that's more painful. Watching Kiptanui winning after winning in front of his television set is speechlessly painful.

Mick that was hilarious!

Actually Air Supply is okay, one of the only Non-Metal bands that I like. Very relaxing music.

I say, put him in a small cell with a big screen TV that just plays, OVER AND OVER, 24 hours a day, his "World Record" in Zurich, while the song "Hit Me baby one more time" by Britney Spears plays at full volume.

He would be knocking his head against the wall until his own death in about 4 hours flat.

jason

Naaa, have him watch Steel Magnolias and Beaches continously for two years during the day and at night time force him to listen to Reo Speedwagon or that Night Ranger's Sister Christian song which doesn't make any sense...that will torture him to repent.

Don't ban him....just cut off this legs. He can still run quality times without legs. Let him continue to compete.

I think cutting of 3 random toes would be sufficient. But I guess you can still run pretty decent with missing toes (Paul McMullen)

Mannnn, I ope they bring that homes to my jail, so I can make him my bi-atch, awwww-yeeeeah, now what you fink bout dat essayyy?

You got it bud, that is the WORST song of all time, "Sister Christian"

Jason

mr vipam, you are right.

in saudi or iraq he would have both his legs cut already.

jason, that was super hilarious!

maybe hicham now is playing britney's 'lucky' while playing off his world record video.

he got lot dieuretics to buy to.

How does one live with oneself?

What puritains. People should be able to alter their body chemistry for whatever purposes they see fit. There's no such thing as "cheating." The sport is about crossing a line demarcating a given distance before anyone else and nothing else. If you don't want to use whatever means possible to achieve the fastest times possible take up bowling. Water is a performance enhancing chemical, why isnt it banned? There is no "level playing field" and their never will be. Why is it so wrong and sinful to use pharmacological agents to alter your body chemistry to make your body into whatever you want it to be? I guess you prefer "natural talent"whatever that is. Anything permitted by the laws of physics is natural. What is not given at birth should be added by choice. If you took an injection that made you 9000 times more intelligent(judging by the postings here, that would still leave many of you behind rodents) and you became the richest man in the world, won a Field's Prize and a Nobel would you be cheating? Who cares, you'd have made yourself into what you invisioon yourself as being. That's what Boulami did. I wish him well. I will invite him to participate in my unlimited(pharmacologic and gentic enhanced) running series which will begin in 2005 at Rose Bowl, Louisiana Superdome, Soldier Field, Franklin Field, and the Meadowlands. You and the kleptocratic, corrupt bastards at the IAAF and IOC(talk about bad for sports)will be surprised. The public doesn't care about drugs of not, just look at McGuire and Bonds. The public wants records, antics, and entertainment. Bring on the genetically enhanced future. Or yeah, I'm a bioengineer in Ireland and we've increased the capillary volume on a goat by 400% and the alveoli volume we've tripled. We'll be doing it on people soon(we already could if we so desired). Welcome to the new world folks. Drugs have been banned becuse certain bureacrats don't like what they do. They ban drugs and then use tax payers money(EPO test finded by European Commission) to maintian their bureacracy which is justified as "necessary to keep out cheaters who threaten to ruin the sport." Ah yes, gatekeepers to protect us from destoying ourselves. How patriarchical. The IAAF, UCI, IOC will never be able to test for organ system enhancement. You can't stop science, and human selected improvements are the science of the future. Freedom to be whoever you want to be. I think you all hate drugs because you can see that in the future it will be hard, especially once you've seen what we can do with humans gentically to know what it means to be human. I may suggest viewing Ridley Scotts 1982 classic BLADE RUNNER. Leave the "cheats" alone, they are showing you the future of human performance, which will only get better once we work on modifying organs and organ structures in the cellular phase of develpoment.

Marcus Morrison Stone MD University of Pennsylvania

Golgi Complexia Ltd.(Armagh Northern Ireland)

Chromos Labs(Vancouver BC Canada)

Here's the problem:

As athletes, our performances should be earned, not bought. In athletics, the quest is to improve upon one's own talent, through hard-work, dedication, and training. That's something cannot be bought.

When an athlete runs 5000 miles his senior year in college, he has earned his ability to run whatever times he may run, as opposed to be buying his performance.

The great thing about sports, and especially our own, is that you cannot buy performances. There's no easy way out of all the miles, intervals, pain and sweat; that every athlete must endure these hardships and trials before they can perform as they have always dreamed to.

Money is shit. Money doesn't mean anything. You don't need to earn anything. What you run on the track is earned. No matter how much talent you may have, you have to work to better yourself. I can't pay someone to train for me, and can't buy myself a larger aerobic band, or more fast-twitch muscle fibers or more mitochondria in my cells or anything.

That's what's great about this sport. In the United States, we have virtually limitless resources, we can fund millions of dollars into our athletes. Nike is doing right now in Oregon, in the hopes to make a great marathoner. But despite all the money we have, it's some of the poorest people on this planet that out perform us everyday.

In this sport, when raceday comes, what it comes down to is how much work have you done? That's why these drugs are illegal. Because this sport is man against man, not drug against man. Performances can never be bought, they can only be earned.

Well said. Running and racing is about personal achievments gained through hard work. It seems that the Western world philosophy of instant gratification and lazyness is catching on with the rest of the world. You know, it would be kinda cool to have a track series of just druggies, see how fast they go, and then count the number of athletes whose hearts blow up (EPO will do that you know, just ask French Cyclists)

I gotta good idea. Why not take the drug yourself that you are planning on testing in humans? Maybe that will make you shut up.