Laalou tested positive.

Nutella1 wrote:

So has Hope Solo. Big Deal. Lol.

Completely different diuretic, without a legitimate excuse, taken for a completely different reason. So yes, it is a big deal

It was obvious Laalou was doped to the gills! Good riddance!

Now Kenya has the only 3:29 guys in the field.

Linsanity wrote:

^^^^^ That's a tougher penalty then what Mark Block got.

THAN

Not that hard

Actually he still appears on the startlist on the IAAF website

Heat 2Friday 03 August 2012 - 20:15Order Bib Athlete Country SB 2012 PB

1 1728 Niclas Sandells FIN 3:36.88 3:36.88

2 2756 Hamza Driouch QAT 3:33.69 3:33.69

3 2377 Mohammed Shaween KSA 3:39.46 3:31.82

4 1282 Nathan Brannen CAN 3:34.22 3:34.22

--> 5 2458 Amine Laalou MAR 3:30.54 3:29.53

6 1610 David Bustos ESP 3:34.77 3:34.77

7 2388 Dmitrijs Jurkevics LAT 3:38.68 3:37.35

8 3362 Nabil Mohammed Al-Garbi YEM 3:55.80 3:50.17

9 3078 Ilham Tanui Özbilen TUR 3:33.32 3:31.37

10 2945 Mohamed Mohamed SOM

11 2299 Silas Kiplagat KEN 3:29.63 3:29.27

12 1800 Andrew Baddeley GBR 3:35.19 3:34.36

13 1739 Jamale Aarrass FRA 3:34.85 3:34.85

14 1694 Dawit Wolde ETH 3:33.82 3:33.82

15 3261 Andrew Wheating USA 3:35.89 3:30.90

Effin A. I always like Laalou. Seemed like a cool guy and was a fierce competitor.

These drug busts are disheartening, as are all the athletes who skate by without being caught. At this point I'm just ready to throw in the towel and assume everyone is doping.

spank the monkey wrote:

Linsanity wrote:

^^^^^ That's a tougher penalty then what Mark Block got.

THAN

Not that hard

My apologies to all those offended. I am on a Typing Enhancing Drug (TED) and typed faster THAN usual.

Not surprising - he ran 3:30 last year, and then looked like he was running backwards in the semis. Now with testing for autologus blood doping, dopers are being pushed into a corner even more.

I never even knew that diuretics could give you a performance boost. Does anyone know how much of a difference it could make? I'm a doctor and thought furosemide was only useful for people with high blood pressure or problems with edema etc. I would think that a healthy person taking it would actually perform worse due to dehydration.

Who on earth didn't think he was doping? This isn't as much "news" as it is "reaffirmations."

does it help? wrote:

I never even knew that diuretics could give you a performance boost. Does anyone know how much of a difference it could make? I'm a doctor and thought furosemide was only useful for people with high blood pressure or problems with edema etc. I would think that a healthy person taking it would actually perform worse due to dehydration.

From what I've read, it's used to flush out an athlete's system of whatever PEDs they had been using. It's not a performance boosting agent by itself, it covers the tracks.

Damn Wikipedia is fast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_Laalou

Any chance the other Moroccans are clean?

agip wrote:

How would you like to be a clean moroccan? you would alternate between feeling like Gandhi and a moron.

Thanks for that one.

(Thanks for the "deprived of OJ" translation, too, although I believe that "JO" in that article referred to "Jeux Olympiques.")

North Quarry Runner wrote:

Innocent until proven guilty dude, if its good enough for our legal system, its good enough for me. Just keep moving forward with the testing regulations so more of these PROVEN dopers get caught.

Agreed! Where is the proof that El G is a drug cheat, just because Aouita, Boulami, his training partner, Selsouli, Laalou, Ramzi, and a host of other moroccans/former moroccans are drug cheats, why does that mean that the fastest of all of them used drugs??? Innocent until proven guilty!!1!

agip wrote:

Moroccan Amine Laalou which was to align this Friday in the Olympic 1,500-meter series has tested positive for a diuretic

A diuretic now????

Hahaha good grief, like that would help with performance????

The drug testers will do anything to keep promoting their bogus corporate drugs.

J.R. wrote:

agip wrote:

Moroccan Amine Laalou which was to align this Friday in the Olympic 1,500-meter series has tested positive for a diuretic

A diuretic now????

Hahaha good grief, like that would help with performance????

The drug testers will do anything to keep promoting their bogus corporate drugs.

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try to keep up! you can do it!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! Hated that guy. SO obvious

clearing the bs up wrote:

Agreed! Where is the proof that El G is a drug cheat, just because Aouita, Boulami, his training partner, Selsouli, Laalou, Ramzi, and a host of other moroccans/former moroccans are drug cheats, why does that mean that the fastest of all of them used drugs??? Innocent until proven guilty!!1!

Mohammed Mourhit, Ezmae Legzhoui, Goumri, Hadil Kaouch, Hamid Ezzine, Abdelhadi Habassa

It's their culture.

Yeah too bad the Moroccans can't stay clean like the Americans and Jamaicans.