Lindsey Scherf Disqualified from USA Half Marathon Champs?

another drug ban for scherf?!

ohgeez wrote:

another drug ban for scherf?!

If so, wouldn't USATF/USADA announce it? Would it be an automatic life-long ban?

Could there be another explanation?

too many questions wrote:

ohgeez wrote:

another drug ban for scherf?!

If so, wouldn't USATF/USADA announce it? Would it be an automatic life-long ban?

Could there be another explanation?

of course there could be another explanation but this would be the most interesting, and is also the first thing that popped into my head given her previous 'ban'

too many questions wrote:

ohgeez wrote:

another drug ban for scherf?!

If so, wouldn't USATF/USADA announce it? Would it be an automatic life-long ban?

Could there be another explanation?

Can't find anything online so far...

Taking cues from LetsRun.com, USATF wanted to show they too were technologically savvy by utilizing strikethrough font.

"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice..."

weird? wrote:

I just noticed that Lindsey Scherf's name has been crossed out in the 2011 USA Half Marathon results

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=info&year=2011&event_id=2510

and the USATF results don't list her at all:

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USAHalfMarathonChampionships/results.asp

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Anyone know what happened?

So, in other words, you don't know if she was disqualified or not?

reader of things wrote:

weird? wrote:

I just noticed that Lindsey Scherf's name has been crossed out in the 2011 USA Half Marathon results

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=info&year=2011&event_id=2510

and the USATF results don't list her at all:

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USAHalfMarathonChampionships/results.asp

.

Anyone know what happened?

So, in other words, you don't know if she was disqualified or not?

I'm pretty certain that's why he put a question mark at the end of the thread title. Notice how he ended his post with a question as well. You're welcome.

G. Chocolatesauce wrote:

I'm pretty certain that's why he put a question mark at the end of the thread title. Notice how he ended his post with a question as well. You're welcome.

hahahaha. Schooled.

More like "Reader of Things But Not Punctuation Marks."

hahahaha wrote:

G. Chocolatesauce wrote:

I'm pretty certain that's why he put a question mark at the end of the thread title. Notice how he ended his post with a question as well. You're welcome.

hahahaha. Schooled.

More like "Reader of Things But Not Punctuation Marks."

This reply is stupid -- no schooling involved, the original point was valid and useful because it was pointing out that the thread title did not say she was disqualified but pointed to it as a possibility. It was NOT nitpicking about an irrelevant point of punctuation.

weird? wrote:

I just noticed that Lindsey Scherf's name has been crossed out in the 2011 USA Half Marathon results

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=info&year=2011&event_id=2510

and the USATF results don't list her at all:

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USAHalfMarathonChampionships/results.asp

.

Anyone know what happened?

Heard that there was a membership paperwork issue... they originally told her she was a USATF member but then at some point they realized there was a paperwork error on their end and had to void her prize money. I don't know if the time still holds though.

CONFIRMED: NOT A USATF MEMBER

Membership was the first thing I thought of. Since her address for the race was listed as SF, checked the Pacific Assoc roster, which indicates an effective date of January 3 for her membership. Her club is indicated with a question mark, indicating they haven't filed all their paperwork. But still not clear why she wouldn't have been legit competing unattached if the membership date is accurate.

http://www.pausatf.org/data/members.php?page=all

Lindsey Scherf F San Francisco 24 6111724838 AT Bay Area Track Club? 01/03/11

Man she can't catch a break LOL

WEBFIND

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) v. United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and Lindsey Scherf, CAS 2007/A/1416. Lindsey Scherf was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma in 2003. She applied for, and was given, an Abbreviated Therapeutic Use Exemption (ATUE) from the IAAF for her asthma medication, Flovent, in 2005 and from USADA in 2006 and 2007. Scherf wanted to participate in the Gold Coast Marathon in July 2007 in Australia. Prior to the race USADA informed her that she would need an ATUE from the IAAF, and that they would forward her application. Scherf did not hear whether her application was granted, and she was not in a position to stop using her medication, therefore, she attempted to find out if there would be drug testing at the marathon. She was told that there likely would not be any drug testing, as there had not been the past three years, so Scherf participated in the marathon. After the race she was selected for drug testing, but she refused to take the test knowing she would test positively. The next day Scherf requested to be tested, but it was too late. As it turned out, Scherf did not need this separate ATUE that USADA had informed her she needed. USADA offered Scherf a reduced one year suspension but WADA and the IAAF felt the full two year suspension was more appropriate. Because of the mistakes made by USADA and the IAAF, CAS determined that exceptional circumstances did exist in this case and thus Scherf bears no significant fault or negligence. Therefore, the one year suspension was sufficient.

I would never want to join the type of club that would have me as a member.

Under Ultra wrote:

"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice..."

You've got that wrong

...that "old man" would be Groucho Marx

looking at the NEW results the DQ moved Sally Meyerhoff up to 13th place the same as Ryan Shay's bib number at the Olympic Trials in New York.

Maybe she had not officially joined the club or didn't pay dues. If she did though...the USATF should go back retroactively and reinstate the result and prize money. Kind of terrible she ran the race, thought she was up to date with the USATF and then has nothing to show for it.