Rashid Ramzi - how many injections this week?

well kaouch is provisionaly suspended right now for failing a drug test, so it isn't necessarily out of line to think that some of these world class athletes are doping, and the way in which ramzi won worlds was really surprising.

irun wrote:

well kaouch is provisionaly suspended right now for failing a drug test, so it isn't necessarily out of line to think that some of these world class athletes are doping, and the way in which ramzi won worlds was really surprising.

Have you learnt nothing from world Cycling?? Its what us elite distance athletes do. We get a doctor to 'coach' us and we take shed loads of drugs. The sports federation and sponsors are not interested in catching us as it means they lose money, so it takes a nation and their police force to enforce the law! The whole of world sport is a fraud!

Vive la France!

Rasmussan wrote:

irun wrote:

well kaouch is provisionaly suspended right now for failing a drug test, so it isn't necessarily out of line to think that some of these world class athletes are doping, and the way in which ramzi won worlds was really surprising.

Have you learnt nothing from world Cycling?? Its what us elite distance athletes do. We get a doctor to 'coach' us and we take shed loads of drugs. The sports federation and sponsors are not interested in catching us as it means they lose money, so it takes a nation and their police force to enforce the law! The whole of world sport is a fraud!

Vive la France!

Why, then, do IAAF bust loads of american sprinters, the biggest names in athletics?

Ehh? wrote:

Why, then, do IAAF bust loads of american sprinters, the biggest names in athletics?

Surely you understand the differences between sprinting and distance running?

So you then must understand the differences between steriods and blood doping / EPO.

It is far easier to catch steriod abusers - especially when the testers are given a sample of the drug they were all taking.

It is very hard to find an athlete guilty of blood doping or EPO abusing. That is unless you have a police force dedicated to arresting drug abusers - i.e. searching hotels rooms, checking bags etc - like they do in France.

What ho Tim!

Good to see you back on the boards.

Obviously not too busy at work saving lives today!

Tim Jeffries wrote:

Ehh? wrote:

Why, then, do IAAF bust loads of american sprinters, the biggest names in athletics?

Surely you understand the differences between sprinting and distance running?

So you then must understand the differences between steriods and blood doping / EPO.

It is far easier to catch steriod abusers - especially when the testers are given a sample of the drug they were all taking.

It is very hard to find an athlete guilty of blood doping or EPO abusing. That is unless you have a police force dedicated to arresting drug abusers - i.e. searching hotels rooms, checking bags etc - like they do in France.

In XC skiing, they regularly catch EPO users with tests.

oh come off it. there will always be naysayers who accuse every elite athlete of being on drugs, and that's not right. it's also not right to assume that NO elite athletes are on drugs. rachid ramzi is the single most suspicious middle/long distance runner in the world today (excluding those already caught).

a 23-year-old 3:39 guy improving to 3:30 EVER would be suspicious. he did it in one year. that's absurd. he then won the 1500m AND 800m titles against very strong fields, having his best race of the week (and a personal best, no less) was his LAST race of the week- it followed three rounds of the 1500 and two rounds of the 800.

what's more, his absurdly abrupt improvement coincided EXACTLY with his nationality switch to Bahrain. it's pretty morally questionable (or at least unsportmanlike) to buy an athlete from another country; what's to stop them from "buying" 9 seconds of improvement for Ramzi, in the form of performance enhancing drugs?

oh, and his old training partner (and fellow former-workout-rabbit for el Guerrouj) Adil Kaouch was just busted for PEDs.

he's the Barry Bonds of middle-distance running. no one with any sense likes the guy because they know he's a cheat.

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run-bike-run wrote:

and his best race of the week (a personal best, no less) was his LAST race of the week-

fixed. NOW it's the post of the day :)