The Cleanest (Drug Free) Athlete In All Of Track

Periklis Iakovakis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periklis_Iakovakis

Periklís Iakovákis (born 24 March 1979 in Patras) is a Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder and nine times national champion in the event.

In 1998 Iakovakis won the gold medal at the World Junior Championships in Annecy, France with 49.82 seconds, and five years later he won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris-Saint-Denis, France. In the final at the Stade de France, he finished in 48.24 seconds after Felix Sanchez (Dominican Republic) and Joey Woody (USA).

Iakovakis achieved his personal best of 47.82 seconds on 6 May 2006 in Osaka during the IAAF World Athletics Tour and won his first major competition 3 months later. He became European Champion in Gothenborg, Sweden finishing at 48.46 seconds in the final.

After his win at the European Championships, Iakovakis won the full-lap hundles event in 47.92 seconds at the Zurich Weltklasse Golden League meet at the last evening that this top meeting would be held at the Letzigrund. The reigning European Champion was then first at the Herculis IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting in Monaco.

Maria Sotirakopoulou is his coach for many years.

[edit] Result progression

2006 : 47.82 seconds

2005 : 48.24 seconds

2004 : 48.47 seconds

2003 : 48.17 seconds

2002 : 48.66 seconds

2001 : 48.87 seconds

2000 : 49.35 seconds

1999 : 49.53 seconds

1998 : 49.82 seconds

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IAAF Profile

http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete%3D130265/

Old Runner guy, world class athletes are tested often. Every busted athlete has tested clean many times before. Testing clean means nothing. Go away.

Then what is the definition of a clean athlete?

My hatred of you grows and grows.

What did you expect by posting this? We would all read it and go 'Oh, what an invasion of the privacy of someone trying to make a living as a PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE'? The IAAF would read it and decide to abolish drug testing because one guy was tested at a rate slightly higher then once per 30 days?

People on the testing register get tested regularly (I hope). The more often, the better. A clean athlete is one that does not take performance enhancing drugs- simple enough for you?

Derek Jeter

habitual drunk drivers drive 5000 miles before they are caught. let this be your guide.

xbcha1 wrote:

My hatred of you grows and grows.

What did you expect by posting this? We would all read it and go 'Oh, what an invasion of the privacy of someone trying to make a living as a PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE'? The IAAF would read it and decide to abolish drug testing because one guy was tested at a rate slightly higher then once per 30 days?

People on the testing register get tested regularly (I hope). The more often, the better. A clean athlete is one that does not take performance enhancing drugs- simple enough for you?

Wow, you have deeper seated problems than I can help you with. Sorry you're a second rate runner but the fact is most, if anot all, of the guys faster than you are that way because they have more talent, not that they cheat. Deal with it.

And I'll note that you think the current testing system is the fairest system ever devised. That you think it has never has made a mistake, and never will make a mistake.

I'm getting sick of this guys threads as well.

14 drug tests in a year is definitely not a record.

Some guy gets drug tested more than once a month and we're supposed to be outraged?

Considering a lot of drug tests have to be given within hours of someone doping to detect the drug, ORG is off by a factor of 10 before I'll think of someone as being the cleanest athlete.

Perhaps we should put a limit on how many threads someone can start within a day.

Read the link and you will see I did not claim it was a record, as did his original new source. My only comment was the title I chose (which was chosen for it curiousity value to get people to read it).

It is interesting how this subject strikes a nerve with many on this board.

Lastly, since everyone here is an expert on every person that has ever peed into a cup, what is the record?

Old Runner Guy it is pretty simple. There is not a "cleanest" person in track and field. There are many of them. Many athletes try and compete under the rules established by WADA. Those athletes are all the cleanest.

But as Paula Radcliffe says, the only athlete you know with certainty is 100% clean is yourself.

Just because someone doesn't get caught, doesn't mean that they are "clean". Take OJ for instance, he wasn't "innocent" he just could not be proven guilty.

Your average shoplifter steals for a long time before they ever get busted. Store clerks basically "know" that someone is a shoplifter, but they can't prove it - then no one is surprised when they do get busted, or even worse when they get off on a technicality.

This claim is exactly the same claim that Armstrong makes. Since he was the most tested athlete in all of sports, it proves he's clean.

Outside of this board, everyone buy this line of reasoning (I do too, negative test = clean). This is why he continues to make seven figures a month as a spokesman (just saw a Bristol-Meyers Sqibb add with him yesterday).

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot claim the tests are perfect and an athlete cannot challenge them when positive and then claim repeated negative tests mean nothing. They have to mean he's clean.

That does not mean he cannot start doping today. But he can claim that throughout 2006 he was clean and his new PR and European chamionship are legit.

OJ - Did It ....

"he wasn't 'innocent' he just could not be proven guilty."

Glad to see the old Soviet Union mentality still exists today, Comrade. By this reasoning, the Duke LaX DA should keep digging. And the fact he dropped the rape charges means their not innocent, they just could not be proven guilty.

Old Runner Guy wrote:

Wow, you have deeper seated problems than I can help you with. Sorry you're a second rate runner but the fact is most, if anot all, of the guys faster than you are that way because they have more talent, not that they cheat. Deal with it.

And I'll note that you think the current testing system is the fairest system ever devised. That you think it has never has made a mistake, and never will make a mistake.

Who the heck are you to talk down to people with a condescending tone about their running ability?? I don't even know what the second half of your post means...how do you know what he thinks? How are you noting what he thinks? Didn't they have composition classes back when "old runner guy's" went to high school? These athletes get PAID to compete, and this is simply what they must endure to continue getting PAID to compete. It's not a comment of ability, buckaroo, it's about the green and if these people want to keep getting it, all they have to do is piss in a cup and be on their way. To ensure something as basic as equality in this sport, taking a leak 14 times isn't too big of a deal. The only ones who will be stressed out and biting their nails each time ARE the cheats, so if your clean, unzip and roll with it.

Chris:

Welcome to an ongoing conversation, gald you could join in the middle. Get yourself up to speed and the last comment will make sense.

First, go search and you'll find at least 20 threads I done on how the system is flawed and how it traps many innocent athletes. So, it's hardly about peeing in a cup and being on your way.

(If you notice above, wejo is now sick of me constantly pointing out the flaws in this system and wants to regulate me. So, I'll leave it to you to see the numerous examples I've posted.)

Second, it has also been well document the insane hatred for dopers on this board. I bleive it is, in part, from jealous sub-elites that feel better when someone better than them fails. This is not just me but many other posters that have expressed these same sentiments. It's also a destructive attitude that ruins the sport for all involved.

Third, the entire system of doping is coming under scrunity, As I've also posted over and over, and the long two part series in the LA Times last month (still linked on the front page) and the story about WADA in this month's Wired (thread on this as well) are all very critical of the current system. I surmised that the press/media is anticiapting Landis walking and/or Gatlin getting off and will use this as a platform to tear apart the current system. So, instead of defending the indefensable (the current system), look at it for the flaws it has.

Otherwise, WADA is at risk of losing credibility which will suit the Chinese just fine (and I would argue the Russians as well). They have their doping camps in place to clean up in the 2008 Olympics and if WADA is ripped a new one, more metals for them!

Fourth, I have also suggested in numerous other threads ways to fix the current system. Again you'll have to search to find them as I'm probably over my "wejo limitation." Basically they involve relaxing the "strict liability" standards and opening the science up to peer review outisde if WADA approved labs.

Lastly, I've also had many threads asking what exactly is a performance enchancing drug or PED (under the name "Not A Doctor"). I've argued the list is too long and too restrictive. I'm not alone in this thinking, Jocques Rogge, head of the IOC and Pedro Delgado (1980s Tour winner) have said the same thing. Problem is WADA determines what is a PED for everybody in all sports, one size fits all in this regard. The list is 11 pages long and they want to add altitude tents and caffeine. They are out of control in adding stuff and a serious discussion of what a PED is needs to be started. Dick Pound, the head of WADA, disagrees. He believes the system is fine and only needs "minor tweaks", if that.

I hope you get to read this thread before it gets deleted. These kind of ideas/thoughts are far too dangerous to say out loud.

Old Runner Guy wrote:

I am thinking someone likes to see him pee into a cup.

He must be well equipped for that kind of attention.

Two choices: 1. Marion Jones - NOT! 2. Lasse Viren - blood doping - involves no drugs.....

Oh please, get rid of your sense of self importance ("These kind of ideas/thoughts are far too dangerous to say out loud"). This is a message board where people who like running post various inane, off the wall, but occasionally informative rants. Nothing more.

What is insane about hating cheating? We can argue about the definition of cheating, and what the definition of "clean" is, but to hate the idea of using something from a pill bottle or a syringe to make you better than you would be otherwise is hardly insane.

Finally, allow me to point out why a large portion of the posters here feel you're kind of a dick:

what a juvenile way you have in answering critiscism. You write: "Sorry you're a second rate runner but the fact is most, if anot all, of the guys faster than you are that way because they have more talent, not that they cheat. Deal with it".

You post here saying that you're trying to have an honest debate and raise important issues, yet when others disagree you drop to the lowest common denominator and start acting like a 7th grader on the playground. Pick a style. Try have an honest debate or sling insults with the rest of the gutter dwellers, but stop acting like you're the only voice of reason among the rest of the "sub-elites" here.

I've noticed all the criticisms of ORG are directed towards him personally and never address the issues he's raised, which of course validates those issues. The process WADA has setup is outrageous is not likely to hold up under any scrutiny. They've set up a rigged process where no one can verify the veracity of their methods. Also, the limits they've set for doping violations seem arbitrary, and testing for such trace amounts with their lab procedures are clearly susceptible to numerous errors. Further, this process where they can show up anytime and anywhere and selectively hound certain people repeatedly to pee in cup is fraught with dangers and injustice. The people they're targeting are known to the lab personal doing the test in their labs, and they have financial and political incentives to get the "right" results.

The only way this testing can even begin to appear legit is if it's done to all the athletes in the same sport the same number of times with open standards. Additionally, the athletes have to be able to split samples where and independent labs that can analyze those samples to verify their accuracy.

OT-TO, as in BLOTTO wrote:

habitual drunk drivers drive 5000 miles before they are caught. let this be your guide.

Huh, interesting statistic. Don't know if it's true, 5k seems like a lot, but also seems believable.