Nick Symmonds book excerpt, you're gonna want to read this!

"If they want urine, then a DCO follows me into the bathroom and asks me to wash my hands. The DCO then asks me to pull my pants down to my ankles and lift my shirt up to my armpits while he or she stands inches away to watch the urine leave my body and enter the little plastic cup they have provided me with. Needless to say, this can take some getting used to."

WTF????

That is a HUGE invasion of privacy. Wow.

That final bit is so poetic!

"I also take much joy in the fact that when I lie down in my bed, I don't have a fake penis hidden in my underwear, along with a bag of someone else's urine strapped to my leg."

I was randomly tested by the NCAA one year while I ran for a mid-sized D1 program. Thats how they do it,- you pull down your pants and the guy watches you pee into the cup.

Are women subjected to the same treatment? Can male testers collect from female test subjects? If so, where do I sign up?

@kipisfast: You have been report to the proper authorities as a complete pervert.

"If they want urine, then a DCO follows me into the bathroom and asks me to wash my hands. The DCO then asks me to pull my pants down to my ankles and lift my shirt up to my armpits while he or she stands inches away to watch the urine leave my body and enter the little plastic cup they have provided me with. Needless to say, this can take some getting used to."

They don't do that every time. You can subsititute urine most every time. USADA and WADA lets our coach know months in advance when "prison rules" are in effect for sampling and when they are not.

Why would he need to breathe a sigh of relief when samples came back negative?

Wilting Artichokes wrote:

I was randomly tested by the NCAA one year while I ran for a mid-sized D1 program. Thats how they do it,- you pull down your pants and the guy watches you pee into the cup.

What kind of a degree do you need to land a dream job like that?

Because, lap tests are faulty (faked, screwed up, mishandled) more often than purists want to admit.

Tantric wrote:

Why would he need to breathe a sigh of relief when samples came back negative?

Because he was around while his friends were hoovering coke the night before. Nick was likely worried that somehow he might have been exposed enough that the test would catch it.

Come back after you've actually read the article, son.

fan of US distance running wrote:

"If they want urine, then a DCO follows me into the bathroom and asks me to wash my hands. The DCO then asks me to pull my pants down to my ankles and lift my shirt up to my armpits while he or she stands inches away to watch the urine leave my body and enter the little plastic cup they have provided me with. Needless to say, this can take some getting used to."

WTF????

That is a HUGE invasion of privacy. Wow.

You didn't know that is how it's done? Have you ... wait, never mind.

They're not walking around at a store or attending a school, they are competing in sports for pay. What does privacy have to do with this?

Funny how he says he's never purchased drugs.

His writing is cringe-worthy:

"had developed a taste for the bitter white powder on the Costa Rican trip we had taken together during college, and he occasionally still made the financial transaction to acquire the illegal substance."

Made the financial transaction? Jesus Christ.

Bocce ball tests wrote:

Because, lap tests are faulty (faked, screwed up, mishandled) more often than purists want to admit.

I know this is the common mantra. However, I have never heard of a cancer, strep, iron, or any other complicated or simple medical blood/urine test being "faked, screwed up, false/positive, or mishandled." They must exist to some degree, but I only hear this when someone tests positive for PEDs.

newname wrote:

fan of US distance running wrote:

"If they want urine, then a DCO follows me into the bathroom and asks me to wash my hands. The DCO then asks me to pull my pants down to my ankles and lift my shirt up to my armpits while he or she stands inches away to watch the urine leave my body and enter the little plastic cup they have provided me with. Needless to say, this can take some getting used to."

WTF????

That is a HUGE invasion of privacy. Wow.

You didn't know that is how it's done? Have you ... wait, never mind.

They're not walking around at a store or attending a school, they are competing in sports for pay. What does privacy have to do with this?

I don't understand your confusion.

You think pulling your pants down and having a stranger stare at your penis while you pee is nothing to find strange?

ummmm

This excerpt was really tame. Probably intentionally so for anti-doping/reputation purposes. There's prob one main reason why most will want to read his book, and it's for the juicy sultry hookup details interweaved with training and (athletIC) performance.

Book is kinda costly so I'm waitin' a bit to buy it...

Yes women athletes are subjected to the same treatment and it has been been known for them to have to pee in front of men.

fan of US distance running wrote:

I don't understand your confusion.

You think pulling your pants down and having a stranger stare at your penis while you pee is nothing to find strange?

ummmm

Not any different than a hernia check for a sports physical. Both are strange, both cannot be accomplished a different way and both are required to compete at a certain level. You do understand why they have to watch the urine come out of you right?

Tantric wrote:

Why would he need to breathe a sigh of relief when samples came back negative?

I would be afraid of a mistake- as in Butch Reynolds.

I suppose anyone can mix up samples. People can mess with samples, whatever. It would be a relief when they come back negative.