You're smarter than that, so don't play games. A discussion about an athlete is one thing. A discussion about doping is another. A discussion about doping in athletics is another. A discussion about a particular athlete doping is another. Assertions that athlete xyz has been busted and tested positive is entirely different from ANY of those things.
We can all discuss forever whether el G doped. And everyone has their opinions, etc. But asserting that he (or Centro) tested positive, and saying all the info is about to be made public is a very different thing altogether. IMO, this should be banned unless someone puts forward something to back that up.
In this thread, after 2 days, and an absurd # of posts, has ANYONE provided any support for the assertion? Not support for whether Al Sal is dirty, or ideas why they think Centro may dope .. support for the assertion he's actually been busted.
And don't make a ridiculous comment like you or your brother did about having honest discussions about doping and then make an unsupported vague and virtually anonymous claim that you heard offline conversations about this situation recently, before this thread .. show some of that honesty you're talking about, and say what you heard, where you heard it, and what you did to follow it up. Doing what you did is about as DIShonest as it gets. If you're not willing to disclose details like that, all you're doing is gossip mongering.
You guys like to call yourselves journalists, and you wave that banner over your site frequently. What kind of journalistic integrity do you hide behind with completely unsubstantiated rumors without a single source of verification? You wanna break a story? Go ahead, find something that verifies your story, and run with it. Otherwise, retract it, and remove it.
See the Denver Post for an example.
It's ridiculously unfair to Centrowitz to leave this online. I don't say that as a fan of Centro, or the sport, but as someone who knows how long this kind of stuff sticks around the net. Content is scraped, repasted, reposted, and on and on .. and years from now, even if you remove it from LRC tomorrow, you'll see stuff from this thread around the net.
You wanna have a discussion about whether Matthew Centrowitz is doping, go ahead and start one. State why you think he is, or isn't and let the conversation roll. But gossipy bs like this thread stating categorically that he's been busted is absolutely unfair.