Breaking: The IAAF drops the hammer - 28 athletes busted from re-test of samples from 2005 and 2007 World Champs !!

Alsohttps://twitter.com/ElenaRusAthletx/status/631192656908001281

ARAF confirmed that the #Beijing2015 team aren't affected by those re-tests from 2005/07

this definitely rules out Tomashova

Yes, a US based journalist with "RUS" in her twitter handle is the definitive voice of the Russian Athletics Federation.

So that tweet must definitely be true.

More believable than an anonymous letsrun poster

Abeylegesse was already withdrawn from the Turkish team, Tzikhan and Tomashova are still on their teams.

Oh, absolutely.

But I get riled by "just saw this on twitter, so XXX or XXX is definitely ZZZ". Most of twitter is speculation, or people reporting rumours of rumours they thought they heard from someone. Unless there's a link to an article from a source I'd trust, don't believe everything you read on there.

And that's why the IAAF is smarter than everyone....they test samples of athletes from 10 years ago, having confirmed somehow that all 28 are magically NOT competing in Beijing, and this is the level playing field that people want?? You been hoodwinked, bamboozled, run-a-mok!

1)Lets not speak of the level of control that the IAAF/shoe companies have displayed here. why not do a mass test of 2012 now? and end it all clean sweep? could it be the massive amounts of money being kicked around in this sport by the elites? Perhaps sites like this that explode in participation when Gay/Gatlin battles Bolt, contribute to the GDP of the sport, and whats best for business is the bottom line.

2)Yes, Happy Day!! that these 28 have their day of reckoning!!, give back those medals now and hand them to the rightful owners!!!....just not the prize money...or the diamond league check....or the visa $50,000...or the money spent by the USATF on the coach, lodging, travel, training, doctors, or therapists. Yeah...those guys got what they deserved.

The minute track and field fans misplaced sense of vengeance, jealousy and fair play are overcome, then we can worry about actually being a relevant sport in the country in which NIKE was invented.

Dirty Paula wrote:

More believable than an anonymous letsrun poster

Abeylegesse was already withdrawn from the Turkish team, Tzikhan and Tomashova are still on their teams.

No, Abeylegesse wasn't withdrawn until after the IAAF announcement, and she seemed perfectly fine in Iten before the announcement. All the IAAF said was that none would be competing in Beijing; they never said that none were selected. There is a difference.

Another anon letsrun poster wrote:

Dirty Paula wrote:

More believable than an anonymous letsrun poster

Abeylegesse was already withdrawn from the Turkish team, Tzikhan and Tomashova are still on their teams.

No, Abeylegesse wasn't withdrawn until after the IAAF announcement, and she seemed perfectly fine in Iten before the announcement. All the IAAF said was that none would be competing in Beijing; they never said that none were selected. There is a difference.

"All the IAAF said was that none would be competing in Beijing"

That is for sure.

Ben L Wrong wrote:

More names (by a close IAAF source)

Tatiana Tomashova

Ivan Tsikhan

Rashid Ramzi

Nadezhda Ostapchuk

Tatyana Kotova

Another Belarus athlete (don't have the name)

Ramzi named to the team for Bahrein today

Tomashova still on the Russian team as well as Tsikhan on the Belarussian

Still trust your sources?

provisional entry lists for Beijing

http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/iaaf-world-championships-beijing-2015-provisi

IAAF said noone on this list is among the 28

Also, Sylvia Kibet looks to get the bronze and Meseret Defar to move up to silver in the Beijing 5000m, while Shalane moves up to silver from bronze and Linet Masai moves up to bronze in the 10000m, because the paper says that Abeylegasse is likely to lose her two Beijing Olympics silvers as well. Being Ethiopian didn't make her suspect, but competing for Turkey did with its doping history.

1st Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia 29:54.66 OR, AR

2nd Elvan Abeylegesse Turkey 29:56.34 AR

3rd Shalane Flanagan United States 30:22.22 AR

4 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai Kenya 30:26.50 WJR, NR

Ben L Wrong wrote:

More names (by a close IAAF source)

Tatiana Tomashova

Ivan Tsikhan

Rashid Ramzi

Nadezhda Ostapchuk

Tatyana Kotova

Another Belarus athlete (don't have the name)

Belorussians? They may as well sanction a few more Kazhaks.

RW to write something congratulating IAAF for being tough on doping. 10 years ago, not the Western nations.

That's great. Rio will be another freak show.

So are they ever going to name the 28 athletes?

Djanjo Undoped wrote:

So are they ever going to name the 28 athletes?

After all of them have had the opportunity to contest the results and go through the testing of the B samples.

@Ben L Wrong

I think I owe you an apology. Tomashova has just been withdrawn from the Russian team

Apology retracted, Tomashova is on the offical start list

http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/results/women/1500-metres/heats/startlist#resultheader

So is this announcement ever going to happen?

pop_pop! wrote:

Ben L Wrong wrote:

More names (by a close IAAF source)

Tatiana Tomashova

Ivan Tsikhan

Rashid Ramzi

Nadezhda Ostapchuk

Tatyana Kotova

Another Belarus athlete (don't have the name)

Belorussians? They may as well sanction a few more Kazhaks.

RW to write something congratulating IAAF for being tough on doping. 10 years ago, not the Western nations.

That's great. Rio will be another freak show.

love your fervor, pop pop, but you have nothing to stand on. Corruption indexes line up with what the drug bans are saying - there is such a thing as culture and it does vary from nation to nation.

Bump. In lite of this week\'s new\'s, does this need re-examined?

How does this all relate to the recent news?

Exactly. The additional names were never revealed and there were no stories about how they'd claimed 28 and then revealed, what?, about 8 or ten at most?