If his results were "annulled" since July 2012, isn't the ban already effectively 23 months?By my calculations, Gay only got a 3 week deal.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
Better than the 1 year backdated given to Gay
If his results were "annulled" since July 2012, isn't the ban already effectively 23 months?By my calculations, Gay only got a 3 week deal.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
Better than the 1 year backdated given to Gay
3. Jimmy Swaggart
Swaggart was one of Jim Bakker's fiercest critics when the Bakker scandal broke, telling an interviewer he himself had never even kissed a woman other than his wife.
Maybe not. But the bombastic and fantastically successful television preacher -- and cousin to rock-and-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis -- was doing something with that prostitute in a cheap New Orleans hotel room in early 1988.
Swaggart's tearful, televised confession kept his $12-million-a-year, 10,000-employee religious empire together -- until he got caught with his pants down again. That's right, Jimmy Swaggart was linked to (brace yourself!) another hooker in 1991.
A couple of lost lawsuits, an IRS tax lien, and that was the end of the line for Jimmy Swaggart. Well, not exactly. He's still hurling rhetorical fire and brimstone on TV, radio and online, albeit on a much smaller scale. Mental Floss: 10 aphrodisiacs around the world
wejo wrote:
A few things.
1) I had heard the Shobukhova had tested positive and her pregnancy was a convenient excuse not to compete for a few years. I just searched all my emails and can't find who told me that. If you knew of this previously please email me
wejo@letsrun.com2) Clearly the word or suspicion was out. Paula's tweet "Lilya Shobukhova finally exposed as a drug cheat . Disqualified using blood passport ,results since 2009 annulled." even indicates people knew before today's announcement.
3) How/why did this take so long to be announced?
4) Paula's tweet also supports my belief that Paula is clean. Having paced her to her world record obviously I am biased but Paula sure talks like a clean person.
Give me a break. Americans should be very humble with this, you are definitely one of countries with most doping cases. Does that have to do with your moral as americans?
I need to correct myself: There is no other country on earth that has anywhere near as many doping cases as USA.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AozPsRB4vhk2dDMtY296dDQ1Q0RDRzdLay1jSzJRaGc#gid=4
I have no idea what the source is for that data, but it has no US runners on it. (But it does have Ken Caminiti who died in 2004!) The inflated numbers for the US come from things like baseball with 39 cases (including Keith Hernandez and 12 others for cocaine in the mid-80's) and MMA with 21. If this suggests anything it's that US professional sports, almost alone in the world outside the Olympic disciplines, have at least a somewhat rigorous anti-doping program.
The list has a remarkable lack of cases from athletics. It is probably because the source of the list is "List of doping cases in sport" from the English Wikipedia. At one point all the cases from athletics were separated from the original Wikipedia list to create a new list called "List of doping cases in athletics". It made the original list load a lot faster....
None of the lists are anywhere near complete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_doping_cases_in_sport&oldid=581257818http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_athleticsThis list of doping cases in 2014 is a lot closer to reality, with Russia and India leading the others with several laps:
http://totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=5618&extra=page%3D1&page=1