No more rumors. This is her in her own words.
No more rumors. This is her in her own words.
Uh Uh... she was drinking many glasses of wine, while pregnant, yeah... and uh on birth control! Yeah, that's the ticket.
Oh, and by the way, it might just be coincidental, but the message boards were down this morning while Paula was realeasing her statement. I honestly thought that maybe Wejo had seen the light and honored his promise from before to shut down the site.
Of course the real experts are all regular internet gossip mongers and trolls. They must have a voice because they are never wrong.
Drawing parallels with the fall of lance - another nike giant
I actually believe her.
whatthewhatthewhat wrote:
I actually believe her.
So do I.
Sorry, bro. The psychotic, witch hunting, hate mongering is coming to an end. This has gone too far and it ends now.
WADA, USADA, IAAF listen up. Rather than following leads from message board rumors generated by inferior coaches, inferior journalists and inferior athletes, stick to focusing on improving your doping control methods with sound and practical scientific methods. You've wasted a ton of money and resources - only to decimate the reputation of good people.
whothewhothewho wrote:
whatthewhatthewhat wrote:I actually believe her.
So do I.
Ah, the low budget drones are back. How could this change anyone's stance? She hasn't released the blood values. All she said was she didn't cheat.
whatthewhatthewhat wrote:
I actually believe her.
It doesn't matter what you believe, you're not a tabloid journalist. They really know their stuff.
Totally fed up wrote:
Sorry, bro. The psychotic, witch hunting, hate mongering is coming to an end. This has gone too far and it ends now.
WADA, USADA, IAAF listen up. Rather than following leads from message board rumors generated by inferior coaches, inferior journalists and inferior athletes, stick to focusing on improving your doping control methods with sound and practical scientific methods. You've wasted a ton of money and resources - only to decimate the reputation of good people.
YES! It's brojos' fault. Shame on you wejo! Everything is your fault.
here come the real experts wrote:
Of course the real experts are all regular internet gossip mongers and trolls. They must have a voice because they are never wrong.
I know! They claimed that the unnamed British athlete with the highly anomalous blood readings was Paula!
Oh, wait.....
Took the Nike lawyers quite a while to work on that draft, apparently.
"Two (of the three flagged tests) were done immediately following races, which today would invalidate any tests. "
So where are all the other "false" results from all the other athletes who were tested in the same way, during the same period ?
Paula must be the unluckiest person on the planet to be the only person tested in such an unfair manner.
Link wrote:
here come the real experts wrote:Of course the real experts are all regular internet gossip mongers and trolls. They must have a voice because they are never wrong.
I know! They claimed that the unnamed British athlete with the highly anomalous blood readings was Paula!
Oh, wait.....
The highly anomalous blood reading which wasn't actually anomalous at all.
Try racing 13 miles in hot weather. Test your blood readings. Your hemoglobin reading will increase by more than 2.8.
You have to be a bloody blood doctor now to be a track and field fan. Maybe I can't be either.
Her WR was paced by dudes... simple fact is women need to suck it up and suffer if they want to break this record.
I mean the 20k race this weekend had the females over 10mins down on the men. THere is no reason for this other than a lack of depth/quality in the current female field.
here come the real experts wrote:
Link wrote:I know! They claimed that the unnamed British athlete with the highly anomalous blood readings was Paula!
Oh, wait.....
The highly anomalous blood reading which wasn't actually anomalous at all.
Try racing 13 miles in hot weather. Test your blood readings. Your hemoglobin reading will increase by more than 2.8.
Whatever. It wasn't just one reading, it was three. And a couple of experts have already weighted in, saying that the chances that those were readings of a clean athlete are less than 1 in a 1000.
I'm sure you can find doctors, as Paula did, who will testify to something else.
The fact is, though, that before long we're going to hear from hundreds of medical experts. This story is going to be HUGE in GB. Every man-jack with a medical license is going to be asked by somebody to weigh in.
Probably, this being the notoriously biased British press, we'll see, just as we did with Linford Christie, and attempt to spin the story in Paula's favor.
What I'm interested to learn now, though, is what Paula said to Wejo that was so convincing. If it's roughly what's in her statement, than I am even more disappointed in him than I thought I would be. I'm also very interested to hear a detailed argument about why releasing blood values placed the biological passport at risk. The only thing I can think of is that Paula figures that everyone will believe she's clean and so will reject the tests that nabbed her. If so, we're looking at someone with a Lance Armstrong like ego.
Oh, and I also want Yegorova to get a chance to ask Paula how it feels to be publicly shamed with accusations about doping.
The expert's statement is odd. He said he reviewed the data carefully, but concluded that since it was taken a while ago it isn't valid. Why did he need to see the data then if his conclusion is that testing during that time period is invalid? He doesn't dispute that the data looks suspicious, but is arguing the method that it was obtained.
Blood values go up and down all the time because of plasma shift. That has to be measured to get a real reading. Otherwise it's useless.
Here's the link to read it directly on her site.
To me, this was wholly unconvincing. She comes across as extremely whiny and perhaps Lance-like. She attacks the Sunday Times repeatedly with arguments that seem pretty weak. Her only REAL argument is that the abnormal blood values they took from her should not be considered valid test results. Perhaps that's true, I don't know. But, it sounds like a lot of excuses and backpedaling. If she had released this statement weeks ago, preemptively, then maybe I'd be sold on her sincerity, but at this point, it looks like she's still trying very hard to hide things, and it seems she only spoke up now because her hand was forced.
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