quote]Flat Stanley wrote:
Completely agree the guy has failed two tests has a coach who tested positive and is running faster than ever and we are supposed to believe he is clean. Yeah right. Gatlin is a piece of filth and should be banned for life. I turned on to watch the athletics saw Gatlin cheat his way to yet more money and beat Tyson Gay another cheat and felt like turning off again!
The message board is full of people hating on Rupp and Farah who have never tested positive and never will yet people on here are praising this stinking piece of pond scum.
One poster said Cram never talks about NOP and drugs.Cram does not mention Farah or Rupp in relation to drugs because they have never tested positive.
Why do people in the USA assume all their athletes are clean, even former drugs cheats, yet slate Rupp. Total double standards!
I have never heard any rumours about Cram taking drugs before idiots on here started making up there usual rubbish.[/quote]
My god we have a lot of "holier than thou's" on here.....plus folks who don't know the facts....and....
Actually, read USADA report,
http://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/AAA-CAS-Decision-Justin-Gatlin-January-2008.pdf
, page two. His first "positive" was inadvertent and unintentional and would not have been ruled so if he had only filled out paperwork for TUE (which was medically valid for treatment of ADHD and USADA and IAAF both concurred). His subsequent use of steroids was stupid and he paid a significant price for it. But perhaps that's not enough for the mob here screaming for more punishment.
If your argument is one positive and your out for life, you can make it. But instead of making a legitimate argument for that, being self-righteous and jumping on the ant-Gatlin bandwagon is so much easier.
And, please stop repeating the fallacy that if a person did something wrong before that therefore it's established as fact that they will repeat that wrong action. You guys must see Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as a reasonable documentary.
Btw, agree with your point that there's way too much accusation of doping without any solid evidence or facts (whether directed at Farah, Rupp, or Gatlin, Willis - who just set a record at age 31?, etc). Let's Slander.com