Galtin's agent rips Radcliffe, BBC

The real example of double standards and the BBC's athletics commentary team is that a British athlete who has served a drugs ban is never mentioned in connection with cheating. Step forward Christine Ohuruogu.

I know her ban was for missing three tests etc. but anyone familiar with the details of her case can only assume that at least one of these "misses" was a matter of deliberate avoidance of the test. And why would anyone want to do that?

I've said before that Cram and Paula are friends and, along with Farah and Salazar have financial links to Nike. this is a clear conflict of interest for any sports reporter but the BBC refuses to accept their is any problem here let alone act on it!

Ashamed by the grammar and spelling errors on this post. Apologies!

mark b wrote:

I've said before that Cram and Paula are friends and, along with Farah and Salazar have financial links to Nike.

Who is gatlin sponsored by

mark b wrote:

I've said before that Cram and Paula are friends and, along with Farah and Salazar have financial links to Nike.

So....who is Gatlin sponsored by?

Parochialism wrote:

Err, England won the ashes this summer, that is pretty much the biggest achievement possible in cricket, which is the second most popular sport in the world after all.

An Englishman also won the Tour de France and England are in with a shot at the rugby world cup.

Your ignorant posting is the equivalent of me seeing the US get knocked out in the group stages ay the football and rugby world cups and assuming it mean that the Americans were awful at every sport

Too right. Great Britain also won the last Olympics proving that they are the greatest sporting nation in the world.

Not sure that this is relevant to my comments which were agreeing to an earlier post about double standards adopted by the British media - especially the BBC - when it comes to cheating in our sport.

I do not defend, explain away, justify Gatlin in the slightest. He should be banned from the sport for life, in my opinion. But my basic point is that certain British athletes are given the benefit of any possible doubt by their chums in the BBC commentary box whereas foreign athletes are routinely traduced by Cram, Radcliffe etc. Imagine if a Russian marathoner had produced blood values like Radcliffe and the IAAF had taken no action. What do you think Radcliffe and Cram would be saying now?

Parochialism wrote:

Err, England won the ashes this summer, that is pretty much the biggest achievement possible in cricket, which is the second most popular sport in the world after all.

mark b wrote:

Imagine if a Russian marathoner had produced blood values like Radcliffe and the IAAF had taken no action. What do you think Radcliffe and Cram would be saying now?

Isn't the leaked IAAF list absolutely chock-full of precisely such people? Yet all of the focus is on Paula. I would agree that Cram and, to some extent, the BBC athletics team seem to be sitting firmly in the pro-Paula camp, but to state that the British media in general is adopting double standards is way off, given that they are focusing on one specific British individual on a list containing athletes with suspicious values from around the world. The pro-British thing to do would have been to try to out the suspicious people who beat British athletes like Ennis to medals.