Just say no, LRC - boycott this farce of a sporting event
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/10870174/Tyson-Gay-to-face-Justin-Gatlin-in-Diamond-League-100m-after-completing-one-year-suspension-for-doping.html
American sprinter Tyson Gay will be back in top-flight action just a year after testing positive for an anabolic steroid after accepting an invitation to compete at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 3 in a highly controversial 100 metres race that will pit him against fellow doper Justin Gatlin.
Gay, 31, who failed three drug tests last summer but escaped with only a one-year suspension in exchange for the “substantial assistance” he provided to investigators at the United States Anti-Doping Agency, is eligible to compete again from June 23.
But the decision of the Lausanne organisers to invite both Gay and Gatlin, who served a four-year ban for a second doping offence, to compete in the same race has caused consternation within the sport, with many fans taking to social media to express their outrage.
The showdown between the two Americans is certain to overshadow the rest of the meeting in Lausanne, where a host of world and Olympic gold medallists will be in action, and puts the subject of doping in athletics back in the spotlight a year after Gay and Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson tested positive for banned substances.
A statement released by the meeting organisers confirmed on Monday that Gay had “chosen to make his comeback from a one-year doping suspension on July 3 at the IAAF Diamond League Athletissima meeting, where he will compete in the 100m”.
Gay vs. Gatlin, Lausanne, July 3. Just say No.
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I can't wait for this race, it's gonna be a great match up.
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Lausanne is a fast track, a fast meet, and is popular with big names. Now if they can just get either Blake or Bolt on board, it would be great.
Who gives a F if Gay is running, they are all dopers at that level. Lausanne could be a de facto world final, depending on who else they can get. -
Thanks for promoting this race.
I have to see it now. -
Lauren Fleshman, is that you?
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Guys relax, so far we only know that Gay tested positive, but we don't know what for. It might have been harmless.
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I'm all over it. Thanks for the heads up to be sure I record it, have popcorn, etc. Should be an awesome race.
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Oh guys, don't be jealous. FACT is:
1. Gay and Gatlin have worked their but off for their country
2. They have excelled when it counted (I wish we could say the same about Rupp)
3. They spend countless hours in the weight room while Rupp wastes times with his BFF Meb Farah in die Cyrosauna.
4. They are more BUFF and more SHREDDED than any distance runner will ever be. -
Agip, how many people in NYC would boycott a NY Giants-Seattle Seahawks game because some linemen and maybe others have been taking steroids?
I doubt that any meet except maybe Zurich has the money for Gatlin, Gay, AND Bolt. -
coach d wrote:
Agip, how many people in NYC would boycott a NY Giants-Seattle Seahawks game because some linemen and maybe others have been taking steroids?
I doubt that any meet except maybe Zurich has the money for Gatlin, Gay, AND Bolt.
zero, no doubt.
but
How many NY Giants-Seatle Seahawks fans play football 6 days per week, compete regularly until they can barely walk and happen to believe their sport is as much a guide to how to live correctly as it is a sport?
How many Giants Seahawks fans support the NFL by being members of a national football organizing body?
How many giants/seahawks players represent their nation in global competition?
I could go on.
I believe track is self evidently exceptional and has higher standards than football. Why don't you? -
agip wrote:
How many NY Giants-Seatle Seahawks fans play football 6 days per week, compete regularly until they can barely walk and happen to believe their sport is as much a guide to how to live correctly as it is a sport?
If that describes you, and your relation to any competitive sport, you are a fool. -
gay is not a doper,it was a simple accident. you got some nerve saying some mess like that.
BUT ANYWAY!! this is going to be a great race. -
I was a huge Tyson gay fan, and in 2013 when all signs pointed towards a massive clash with usain bolt...I couldn't be more excited. Then he tested positive. To be honest I couldn't feel more cheated and just pissed off at him for using PEDs. And I'm still pissed. Now I wasn't a fan of track when gatlin tested positive, but when he came back after his doping ban (4 years) it wasn't at one the biggest meets of the year (1 of 16 DL meetings per season). He opened at a low key meet.
And to see a big promoter, big meet, make money on that Tyson is back and he is opening at our meet is just sad. He's back after he got busted, still gonna grab a check from the DL and is taking a lane from someone who is clean. Unbelieveable.
This Tyson gay case pretty much says to any elite runner or semi-elite, why not dope, you gonna sit a year and then you still get to run in DL meetings right off the bat. The IAAF needs new rules, if you are a convicted doper, when your ban is finished, the next year (you're comeback season) no DL meetings, no worlds and no Olympics (if that year has a championship) and make that athlete prove they can make it a year of tested before making serious money on the circuit.
It's unreal. A dark day in track and field. -
The only way to make track clean is if fans stop being so nice and start JEERING and THROWING TOMATOES at dopers.
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Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:
Oh guys, don't be jealous. FACT is:
1. Gay and Gatlin have worked their but off for their country
2. They have excelled when it counted (I wish we could say the same about Rupp)
3. They spend countless hours in the weight room while Rupp wastes times with his BFF Meb Farah in die Cyrosauna.
4. They are more BUFF and more SHREDDED than any distance runner will ever be.
You do realize Rupp has a silver medal right? -
So once you serve a suspension you aren't supposed to be allowed to race again?
Or do you have a suggestion where they should race?
I am not pro-doping or even cavalier about it, but once they have been sanctioned that is the end of their punishment, they shouldn't need to wear a scarlet "D" around for life, should they?
If they should then every doper should.
And, yeah, all those guys and girls dope, before they were caught and after and now. It sucks but that is how we get a 9.59 100m and a 7:20 3k and a 2:03 marathon.
No more dope and we have to roll back the clock. -
I told you what meets they shouldn't be able to race the year they come back.
So the can run drake, penn relays, Tyson gay invite, any other euro meets that aren't DL. Any college meet in the us. So there are tons. Just not on the big stage. -
I told you what meets they shouldn't be able to race the year they come back.
So the can run drake, penn relays, Tyson gay invite, any other euro meets that aren't DL. Any college meet in the us. So there are tons. Just not on the big stage. -
They should have to run on a dirt track in the ex-doper league and have eggs and tomatoes thrown at them.
