http://www.iaaf.org/antidoping/news/newsid=66100.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Most notable name on there to me is Abderrahim Goumri
Most notable name on there to me is Abderrahim Goumri
Is this proof that Turkey have started gene doping techniques on their athletes?
Erdogan is a former Ethiopian distance runner, and we've been told many times that East African athletes are genetically unable to cheat.
Unite bros and sistas against da evil. Nobody can take our medals away. Wi ar genetically superior and have big pennis too. We ar unable to cheat or lie.
bravi. They are dropping like used up space stations.
Given that the 'Biological Passport' system works by analysing blood values over a period of time, it's not a shock that they're targeting mainly people from 'non-smiley' countries.
I wonder if the ones from more 'genetically non-cheating' nations are even being bothered with by this system.
Wouldn't shock me at all.
I have no idea what you're talking about. You have jumped the sarcasm shark.
Azaleas wrote:
I have no idea what you're talking about. You have jumped the sarcasm shark.
I wasn't aware I was being sarcastic at all.
My first post was more facetious, and my second post was a genuine honest concern albeit written in a facetious manner.
The IAAF also announced three former soviet union athletes tested positive from re-tests after Daegu. Two sprinters and a 1500 runner. This is getting good:
Monte Carlo - In what should serve as a timely warning to athletes ahead of the London Olympics, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has used evidence and abnormalities identified in the biological passport of three elite athletes to retrospectively uncover further cases of doping at the 2011 IAAF World Championships.
Three individual athletes were each recently found guilty of anti-doping rule violations and subsequently sanctioned by their respective National Federations following the re-analysis of their blood and urine samples collected at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, Korea.
The sample of Inna Eftimova (Bulgaria) tested positive for synthetic Growth Hormone, while the samples of Nataliya Tobias (Ukraine) and Antonina Yefremova, (Ukraine) both contained traces of synthetic testosterone
trollism wrote:
Given that the 'Biological Passport' system works by analysing blood values over a period of time, it's not a shock that they're targeting mainly people from 'non-smiley' countries.
I wonder if the ones from more 'genetically non-cheating' nations are even being bothered with by this system.
Wouldn't shock me at all.
the heck does all this mean? Stop with the euphemisms. Am I a non smiley person or a genetically non cheating person?
Holy crap Nataliya Tobias won a bronze in 2008 Beijing in the 1500 - I hate this crap.
agip wrote:The IAAF also announced three former soviet union athletes tested positive from re-tests after Daegu.I'm pretty sure that Bulgaria was never part of the Soviet Union.
If you're American you're certainly not 'genetically non-cheating' but you're smiley neutral.
agip wrote:
Holy crap Nataliya Tobias won a bronze in 2008 Beijing in the 1500 - I hate this crap.
Hate that they dope . . . or hate when they get caught?
The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) (Bulgarian: Народна република България (НРБ), Narodna republika Balgariya (NRB)) was the official name of the Bulgarian communist republic that existed from 1946 to 1990, when the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) was ruling together with the 'oppositional' National Agrarian Party. Bulgaria was viewed in the West as a satellite state of the Soviet Union,[1][2] part of Comecon and an Eastern Bloc country, and a Soviet ally during the Cold War, a member of the Warsaw Pact.
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ok, Bulgaria wasn't technically in the USSR, but pretty close.
Canada wasn't technically in the USA, but pretty close.
So, does the biological passport make it impossible to blood dope, or just difficult? I would think it's extremely difficult to hide the constant swings in your blood values.
According to tweets by TnF_TMZ, Galen Rupp and Mo Farah are being investigated for doping.
: @G_Rupp @Mo_Farah of Nike Oregon Distance Project are under investigation for doping...only question: do they go down before or after games?
How does this relate to the IAAF biological passport? Well, the news about Abderrahim Goumri was leaked a month ago. The IAAF officially announced Goumri's doping today. Will it be the same with Farah + Rupp?
But I suppose she keeps the bronze from Beijing. I wonder if there's some way to go back and retest her samples from 2008.
So what is the biological passport measuring? Is it detecting drugs or measuring something else?
I'm not 100% up to date on it, but I know that blood dopers have unnatural variations in their blood profiles. Hematocrit, for instance, shouldn't jump around or have odd step discontinuities unless you're in an accident or something.