Lindsey Scherf wins CAS appeal

No, I did not read pg. 6. Just bc an individual is taking grad classed doesn't mean they finished a degree. 1# sports administration, you must be kidding me!!! LOL.... You think a sports administration degree is even close to a Harvard degree. Blithering idiot ha ha.

At least the girl was smart enough to get her Harvard degree and now she can go out and play.

what is the cliff notes version of her appeal?

cheech wrote: what is the cliff notes version of her appeal?

More accurately, WADA lost CAS appeal, rather than Scherf won.

Scherf had a one year suspension. WADA thought that it should be two and appealed. CAS denied the WADA appeal. Scherf still has her one year suspension.

All true. But you should add that CAS wanted to reduce or perhaps eliminate Lindsey's suspension, but realized they couldn't do so because WADA, not Lindsey, initiated the appeal.

By the time CAS ruled, Lindsey has only 5 weeks of suspension remaining. So CAS instead decided to rule that WADA, IAAF and USADA had to pay all of Lindsey's legal expenses, something that CAS rarely does. This isn't mentioned on Lindsey's website, but it is in the CAS Arbitral Award document that CAS will soon release.

Apparently, you are still having a difficult time reading and comprehending. Let me help you a little with Princeton's analysis of the program that Lindsey will be taking at Oregon. http://princeton.localplacement.com/schools/business/BizBasics.aspx?iid=1011149

Princeton REVIEW'S analysis...not Princeton's.

Yes, Oregon will be VERY GOOD this year and for years to come. I just looked at their roster and am impressed with their depth. Here is the profile on sophomore Alexandra Kosinski who gets somewhat lost in the crowd, yet is a top 10 threat herself: http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=4335&SPID=238&DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=925195&Q_SEASON=2008

Someone else who is very good, but is being overlooked because of an injury that cost her a good part of last season, is Keara Sammons. Here is her Oregon profile:

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=4335&SPID=238&DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=653511&Q_SEASON=2008

wow she got f£cked over..

CliffsNotes (formerly Cliffs Notes, and often, incorrectly, CliffNotes or Cliff notes).

cheech wrote:

what is the cliff notes version of her appeal?

Wrong.The undergraduate degrees awarded by Harvard University are the A.B. and S.B.

jimxs wrote:

1500 wrote:

So answer my ? She does or does not currently have her Harvard degree. I'm not asking about future goals or pro aspirations. The here and now is what I asked.

Yes, she graduated with a BA degree from Harvard in June '08 (I believe in psychology, but I'm not certain). She attended Harvard for 4 years but only competed in T&F/XC her freshman and sophomore years.

Black sprinter gets suspended for doping: great for the sport, ban 'em for life, and catch the rest of them.

White girl from Harvard gets busted and suspended: she got a bad deal and was f***d by all.

Typical (and brutal blindness) Letsrun bias.

Yeah, she'll never get beaten on the side of the road by police for being Black.

She pulled the WHITE CARD with CAS. You know "I'm, White and I'm a Christian, and I went to a upper class high school, in suburbia. I'm white and I volunteer at Harvard helping inner-city youth with academics. Oh, and did I tell you, I'm White."

But I don't know which is worse. A lifetime ban for doping, or being sentenced to OREGON, the school that went medal-less at Beijing.

Biased Posters wrote:

Black sprinter gets suspended for doping: great for the sport, ban 'em for life, and catch the rest of them.

White girl from Harvard gets busted and suspended: she got a bad deal and was f***d by all.

Typical (and brutal blindness) Letsrun bias.

Black sprinter went out of her way to deceive and cheat and deserved to be banned

White girl went out of her way to comply with the rules and was screwed over by the incompetence of the very people who enforce the rules and from whom she sought advice to comply with them.

How stupid are you?

PULL THE WHITE CARD wrote:

Yeah, she'll never get beaten on the side of the road by police for being Black.

She pulled the WHITE CARD with CAS. You know "I'm, White and I'm a Christian, and I went to a upper class high school, in suburbia. I'm white and I volunteer at Harvard helping inner-city youth with academics. Oh, and did I tell you, I'm White."

But I don't know which is worse. A lifetime ban for doping, or being sentenced to OREGON, the school that went medal-less at Beijing.

wow, until i got to your last line i thought brooks johnson had posted on letsrun.

While I agree that the rules seem Byzantine and those enforcing them incompetent, I\'m sorry, but she seems rather stupid. Whatever she was told or promised by organizers, to knowingly continue to take a banned drug based on someone\'s word that there wouldn\'t be drug testing and vague promises that things could be resolved by backdoor methods seems less than clever. Anyone not born yesterday should know better than to trust in such vague, undocumented and baseless promises on the part of organizers she was already well aware were incompetent.

Why take such a risk? While I don\'t think she is a drug cheat, I also don\'t have much sympathy for her - she knowingly broke the rules while being well aware her paperwork - yes, not through her own fault - had not gone through. What makes this girl so special that she is above the usual rules and enforcement? She could have prevented this situation by not running the race, or stopping the medication - she chose to do neither, and now she is taking the consequences.

Based on "someone's word"? Um no, based on the word of USADA. She was, as far as she knew NOT breaking the rules. She did the right thing by going to the authority to ask. They screwed up.

She asked what she was supposed to do and they told her. Wrongly.

As Lindsey explained on page 3, she could not stop her medication because she was recovering from a serious throat/lung infection -- which if it spread to her heart could be fatal (myocarditas).

She also explained on page 3 that the Gold Coast Marathon race was her only chance to get a qualifying time to enter the US Olympic Marathon Trials. Lindsey felt she had a chance of placing on the top-3 in that trials race.

Please read her story more carefully before posting misleading statements.

Never refuse to take a test. NEVER.

While there were numerous foul ups, if she had taken the test and had tested positive, then all of this would have come to light and no sanction ever would have been made.

In 2009, there is going to be more flexibility in applying sanctions to allow for cases like this.

However, the agencies have to be strict on the refusal of tests.