Wow: IAAF bans Ekaterina Kostetskaya - Steve Hooker's wife and 1:56 Russian who went to HS in Arkansas - for doping

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  • rojo
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    5 years ago 07/30/2014 10:00pm CDT
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    This is big news in our mind.

    In cae you don't know Ekaterina Kostetskaya, she attended HS in the US and also went to Texas State. Good over here in HS (2:05) and college (6th in NCAA in 2007 right behind Morgan Uceny), she was all the way down to 1:56 a year later in 2008.

    In 2012 before the Olympics, I asked about her on this thread - http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4723880 - and when it came out that her mom had run 3:54, I though to myself, "I hate to say it but doesn't that mean 100% her mom was a doper and she most likely is as well?"

    I HATED THINKING THAT.

    Knowing she also was dating hooker, it made me question him as well.

    Now she comes out as a doper.

    The IAAF banned her today for "use/attempted use of a prohibited substance/method” at the 2011 world championships.

    Interesting they are banning people 3 years after the fact. Does anyone know the facts of the case?

    Speaking of doping, they IAAF also banned a race-walker - not sure if this was related:

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/bronze-upgrade-for-heffernan-after-russians-drug-ban-30473220.html

    Also why hasn't the Mo Trafeh thing been anounced? His lawyer told me it was due more than a month ago.

    Let us know what you know.
  • rojo
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    5 years ago 07/30/2014 10:06pm CDT
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    Here is the article on the ban:

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/more-sports/steve-hookers-wife-athlete-ekaterina-kostetskaya-banned-for-using-drugs/story-fnii0hmo-1227008164259?nk=684e91072a2787356611fa8361ff7315
  • SOCAL-RUNNER
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 2:30am CDT
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    rojo wrote:

    Here is the article on the ban:

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/more-sports/steve-hookers-wife-athlete-ekaterina-kostetskaya-banned-for-using-drugs/story-fnii0hmo-1227008164259?nk=684e91072a2787356611fa8361ff7315

    Hooker is for sure using! Also something i was surprised you never posted was Mary Akor.

    http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/prolific-marathoner-mary-akor-gets-2-year-doping-ban?page=single
  • Geelong Runner
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 5:48am CDT
    re: SOCAL-RUNNER
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    Hooker is commentating on Australia's coverage of the Comm Games. Nothing has been mentioned. The article link was also posted on a track facebook forum with very little comment. I find this a bit disturbing. Why are my fellow Australians not asking questions about this?
  • You Yangs
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 6:06am CDT
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    I daresay everyone is a bit more concerned/distracted with the Eric Hollingsworth saga...

    If you're refering to the track fb page I think, I had to scroll down to find the link posted & no-one had commented...
  • Engrish
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 6:41am CDT
    re: rojo
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    She went to HS in Arkansas for doping?
  • Jonny Hoberman
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 7:23am CDT
    re: rojo
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    I know that you continue to discuss doping like you're TMZ rather than journalists who, after having had all this time to research, should be capable of a much more nuanced discussion.
  • web idiot
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 7:27am CDT
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    There you go again. Stepping on someone else's already started perfectly acceptable thread on a topic in order to run roughshod over them.


    http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5939898

    And Hooker is one of the most bizarre looking humans I have ever seen.
  • Keeping track...
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 8:21am CDT
    re: rojo
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    So for Daegu, this bumps up Maggie Vessey, Kenia Sinclair, and another Russian (also won by Savinova)-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_800_metres

    Does the ban affect results for the women's 1500 in London? She was 9th in the final-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_1500_metres
  • Go Afrikaaa
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 8:29am CDT
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    It does not take a genius to figure out that these two are doping. Just look at the guy's jaw, it is almost touching his chest. And she has a very typical steroid/HGH jaw.
  • Mo Ron
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    5 years ago 07/31/2014 8:41am CDT
    re: web idiot
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    web idiot wrote:

    There you go again. Stepping on someone else's already started perfectly acceptable thread on a topic in order to run roughshod over them.


    http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5939898

    And Hooker is one of the most bizarre looking humans I have ever seen.

    Don't feed this thread (I'm sorry I am doing just that but I will post on the other one now).
  • dont feed this thread
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 9:07am CDT
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    Mo Ron wrote:

    web idiot wrote:

    There you go again. Stepping on someone else's already started perfectly acceptable thread on a topic in order to run roughshod over them.


    http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5939898

    And Hooker is one of the most bizarre looking humans I have ever seen.

    Don't feed this thread (I'm sorry I am doing just that but I will post on the other one now).



    Ok
  • jjjjjjjjj
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 9:21am CDT
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    From all-time track, her mother is 9th all time, beaten only by a # of Chinese athletes, Tatyana Kazankina (3:52) and Paula Ivan of Romania (3:53.9):
    9 3:54.23 Olga Dvirna RUS 11.02.53 1r1 Kiev 27.07.1982

    Sorry to see this but she became suspect when she started running in Russia and dropped so much time so quickly once she was on the circuit.
  • Captain Oblivious
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 9:21am CDT
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    She picked it up in utero.
  • ItWasPutin
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 9:25am CDT
    re: rojo
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    rojo wrote:

    In 2012 before the Olympics, I asked about her on this thread - http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4723880 - and when it came out that her mom had run 3:54, I though to myself, "I hate to say it but doesn't that mean 100% her mom was a doper and she most likely is as well?"

    Does anyone know the facts of the case?

    I can't believe you are writing this.

    She ended up being a doper but the fact that her mom ran 3:54 means that regardless of if her mom used or not, she certainly should have the genetics to run fast.

    And isn't it part of your job to go find out what the facts are?

    But since you are just asking anyone, the facts are: she got the drugs from usain bolt starting back in 2010 (he injected her himself). Vladimir Putin paid for it because Russia and Jamaica have an agreement (he's funding their doping program to undermine the US medal count at the WCs and Olympics). They have proven that the fastest she could have run clean is 2:21. Who is "they"? Don't worry about it. Also she and Hooker have had 36 babies and are training/doping each of them in different T&F disciplines so the family can win the most T&F medals in the 2040 Olympics. Then Putin will reveal that he was behind it all and launch an invasion of the US starting with Alaska.

    Those are the facts of the case.
  • dipkin
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 9:46am CDT
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    guys stop feeding this thread! posting on this thread is bad! nobody post on this thread
  • Lantern
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 10:02am CDT
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    Crazy... Does this implicate Steve Hooker?
  • DenaliLama
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 10:03am CDT
    re: rojo
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    who is steve hooker??
  • Californian1
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 10:45am CDT
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    DenaliLama wrote:

    who is steve, hooker??

    I don't know who steve is and please don't refer to me as a prostitute.
  • TrackCoach
    5 years ago 07/31/2014 11:30am CDT
    re: rojo
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    rojo wrote:

    This is big news in our mind.

    In cae you don't know Ekaterina Kostetskaya, she attended HS in the US and also went to Texas State. Good over here in HS (2:05) and college (6th in NCAA in 2007 right behind Morgan Uceny), she was all the way down to 1:56 a year later in 2008.

    In 2012 before the Olympics, I asked about her on this thread - http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4723880 - and when it came out that her mom had run 3:54, I though to myself, "I hate to say it but doesn't that mean 100% her mom was a doper and she most likely is as well?"

    I HATED THINKING THAT.

    Knowing she also was dating hooker, it made me question him as well.

    Now she comes out as a doper.

    The IAAF banned her today for "use/attempted use of a prohibited substance/method” at the 2011 world championships.

    Interesting they are banning people 3 years after the fact. Does anyone know the facts of the case?

    Speaking of doping, they IAAF also banned a race-walker - not sure if this was related:

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/bronze-upgrade-for-heffernan-after-russians-drug-ban-30473220.html

    Also why hasn't the Mo Trafeh thing been anounced? His lawyer told me it was due more than a month ago.

    Let us know what you know.


    When athletes are banned years after the fact usually means they didn't test positive at that time. She could have gotten caught by the BP, analytics or an investigation, all of which takes time. Sometimes WADA will alert athletes of chemical abnormalities year-over-year and in so many words suggest they disappear. Sometimes the athlete will continue to compete and when the actual bust comes down, it will be backdated to when they were originally suspected of doping. The other situation is when an athlete secretly cooperates and implicates another athlete, it can take WADA a couple of years to get a positive or build a case on the implicated athlete.

    I saw Ekaterina run at the NBN meet in H.S., I remember her mostly as a 400m hurdler; a very good one. To me, she is an example of an athlete talented enough to become world class without doping. I think see started doping early, I recall her only being a 55x quarter miler in H.S., I don't she any faster in the 400 at Arkansas and then she returns to Russia and runs 55x going over hurdles. Btw, there was trend in the mid-2000s where Russia would have over a half dozen female sub-2 half milers in May, but they could never hold their form for the season. I always thought all of those Russian half milers were dirty.

    Also, this has to put a spotlight on Hooker...there is almost no way my wife could be doping I don't know about it.