quite simply, she has been the most obvious doper on the circuit in years
the way she won the gold in '07 in a turbo-charged sprint in 9'07 was biggest obvious doper i've ever seen apart from ramzi after his '08 prelim
she looked like she couda gone 9-flat on the circuit that day, which to a newbie to the event & aged nearly 34y was absolutely outrageous as well as criminal
Coach, manager, all arrested. Here's a google translation
Although disappointed I'm not at all surprised. I saw her running in the road race at Balmoral in spring 2002. She had picked up (I think) the silver at the worlds in Edmonton the previous year and I also believe run pretty well indoors that winter. As the womens field ran past it gradually thinned out into a few stragglers before right at the back came Domiguez huffing & puffing and looking anything but a world class athlete. A few months later she dominated the Europeans to win the 5K. An absolutely amazing turnaround in just a few weeks...
Her true hair color is grey.
Are there any clean spaniard's ? NO!!
Her Coach, Cesar Perez is the one that went to UTEP in the late 90's. Total burn. He was always talking about doping back then as well.
Doping, schmoping. Does anyone beileve that this sport is clean?
Link to more info on Cesar. He was also a guy who couldn't break 8:45 in the NCAA system, or make the final at nationals, yet he goes home and is able to become a consistent sub 8:20 guy with a best around 8:13ish. So much for that "safe" Hotel up in the mountains in Spain that all the cyclist and runners went to with their "doctors", huh Cesar?
Yup, it's just like Victor Conte's book sez, paraphase "it's child's play to defeat WADA/USADA", who both work for the TV Networks to let dopers slide. Testers could nab Symmonds, Cliff Lee, Solinisky, Hallday, Rupp, Tim Lincecum again like they nabbed A-Rod and still USATF/MLB would let them slide. Bottom line is we need international laws to govern PEDs in sports.
She was vice president of the Spanish Athletics Federation.
Barroid wrote:
Yup, it's just like Victor Conte's book sez, paraphase "it's child's play to defeat WADA/USADA", who both work for the TV Networks to let dopers slide. Testers could nab Symmonds, Cliff Lee, Solinisky, Hallday, Rupp, Tim Lincecum again like they nabbed A-Rod and still USATF/MLB would let them slide. Bottom line is we need international laws to govern PEDs in sports.
Really agree with you but could you ever see the NFL or the NBA ever fully opting into WADA?
Just answered my question. wrote:
Are there any clean spaniard's ? NO!!
It's easy to jump to this conclusion, but it is also an innapropriate assumption. I do wonder, however, who else is implicated if Dominguez/Perez are charged with distribution. Hopefully there is a record of sale on the computer files they impounded to convict all recipients. Also, who is in her training group?
anyone who has watched Spanish Mid-D runners (especially female) over the last decades knows...
they rarely race, and when they do, is it is either brutal, or winning a championshps (or close to it)...
I hope they bring down a bunch more...
shutup. us runners don't race that much either. don't tell anyone we're like them half-moorocan-blooded spaniards and portugese.
What?!
An elite doping?!
No Way!!
Who's next?
Nesta Johnson?
Carmelita Johnson?
shutup and don't mention solinsky, rupp, ritz, symmonds, meb, wheating, nor hall. i mean it. shut the eff up, you ass wipe.
This bitch Marta has always given me a royal pain in the ass.
Forgive my rant (no, I have never done drugs and I do not advocate people using PEDS)...............Honestly, as a former track and field athlete myself (4-time All American with Alabama and UTEP) I can honestly say that systematic doping in sports is pretty much equivalent to an student/academician/researcher regularly popping a pill to stay awake for studying/researching/presenting data more efficiently (or in the case of the classical musician: ingesting B-blockers to calm down prior to a classical music recital). Happens all the time and noone really seems to frown upon it. I also find it hilarious that Joe Schmoe can enjoy a testosterone injection legally to enhance his sex-drive or to counteract the aging process without any legal action (hey, he gets the chicks and I don't. Clearly unfair competitive advantage wouldn't you agree? He will live longer, be happier, earn more money etc). It reeks of hypocrisy.
So the question is if athletes are being held to higher standards? Yes. Also, are athletes holding themselves (and especially their competitors) to higher standards than in other human endeavors? Yes. Why should athletes be held to a higher standard than researchers competing for a federal grant for example? Nobody really cared that the guy that invented PCR (polymerase chain reaction) was high while driving (if I remember correctly) when coming up with this revolutionary idea that have brought the world a lot of good and millions and millions of $ to himself!
Let me break it to you: Whether you are talking about academics/research, sports, or rocket science, there is no level playing field to begin with. Just being born in a different social setting/culture puts us at a distinct advantage or disadvantage. You guys (and I) got nice scholarships, free food, athletic clothing, and medical backup in the US. In 3rd world countries they don't even have tracks to run on! This is an unfair advantage to say the least. Fair sports is a myth to begin with. But, if we want to throw blame somewhere, you have to agree that the most immoral people surely must be the privileged American (or Swede) that gets caught for doping. I don't know about the GDP of Spain, but my point is that the general population (and athletes) care way too much about small matters and are too quick to point fingers and fellow sportsmen/sportswomen.
I am wiser nowadays and can put things in a better perspective. Cesar trained drug-free as far as I know while at UTEP and was an inspiration for many of the walk-ons [of course throwers were and will continue to be the real stars at UTEP :-)]. He was also hardworking in the classroom and a nice guy to be around. I truly don't care if he did steroids or not. I really don't care if I lost my NCAA championship in 1996, 1998, and 2000 or an Olympic spot to drug-abusing competitors. We are talking about very small matters on a grand scale. Can I be so bold and say that we probably should set doping free and the money that are being spent on doping prevention (tests and education) should be allocated to starved Africans so they can eat? Sports on a level playing field is a myth anyway.