Ethiopian Doping Positives on the way

Doping News wrote:

The anti doping police have finally focused on Ethiopia

Too late for most of the big names that are finished their careers

has anything happened on this?

smithers jones wrote:

Doping News wrote:

The anti doping police have finally focused on Ethiopia

Too late for most of the big names that are finished their careers

has anything happened on this?

Yes

Haile gebresellasie was arrested and quizzed for 24 hours recently

Doping News wrote:

smithers jones wrote:

has anything happened on this?

Yes

Haile gebresellasie was arrested and quizzed for 24 hours recently

No, that was the mobot.

Surprise, surprise, we hear about a bunch of doping positives, several names come out, many more doping positives are heard tell of, and now months later, no more names and they're talking about cancelling many of the violations.

When I feel cynical, I think that sports leaders realize that the sport can make more money in the short term by ignoring the problem and not having a big, public resolution. So the do as little as possible and justify it to themselves by thinking that they won't let it happen again. Next time will be different. But usually they do not get the right system in place and the whole thing repeats itself.

Doping News wrote:

The anti doping police have finally focused on Ethiopia

Too late for most of the big names that are finished their careers

Wishful thinking.

I am pretty confident non of the top Ethiopian athletes dope. They can't cope with the ostracization of the public if found. But for sure some of the B-list athletes would dope to get a few quick bucks and disappear(specially marathon runners). And those who changed their citizen may be influenced by their new national coaches to do stupid things ( like ..Abiylegesse/Aregawi).

toothbrush wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

...and what is the Kenyan Kipyegon doing raising both fingers up as if she won/

I think Olympic silver after being passed and then coming back is worth some modest lifting of a couple of fingers.

But I guess it can't compare to all the outstanding performances you have realized in your life.

It's ok to celebrate raising a finger indicates you are No 1 she finished 2nd whatever the race.

I've noticed more and more runners doing this recently

What have my performances got to do with it. When I finished 2nd I didn't raise a finger as if I'd won and would not do so whatever the level

boroo wrote:

Doping News wrote:

The anti doping police have finally focused on Ethiopia

Too late for most of the big names that are finished their careers

Wishful thinking.

I am pretty confident non of the top Ethiopian athletes dope.

Uh...Genzebe much?

boroo wrote:

[quote]Doping News wrote:

. And those who changed their citizen may be influenced by their new national coaches to do stupid things ( like ..Abiylegesse/Aregawi).

yes yes, the corrupt swedish national team coaches, known for their cheating doping ways. Absolutely.

in your opinion do you think doping among ethiopians,and kenyans is as bad as it is in russia? on he same leval,with as many athletes doing it? im curious,as to what you think.

jeff tallon wrote:

in your opinion do you think doping among ethiopians,and kenyans is as bad as it is in russia? on he same leval,with as many athletes doing it? im curious,as to what you think.

It can't be, whenever they are asked during post-race interviews, they always say they are clean and are for a clean sport. Seems like it's just a witch hunt at this point.

i hope quite a few get busted,but in your opinion,how would you compare doping in kenya,and ethiopia,to say,russia?just as bad?

jjjjjjj wrote:

Surprise, surprise, we hear about a bunch of doping positives, several names come out, many more doping positives are heard tell of, and now months later, no more names and they're talking about cancelling many of the violations.

Suffice it to say a few anonymous trolls posting unsupported comments in LRC is hardly the same thing as "we hear about a bunch of doping positives, ....."

could anyone summarize this? Did anything actually happen?

kammer wrote:

could anyone summarize this? Did anything actually happen?

no cos they are clean

Threads promising positives are always laughable. They never happen

Here is what I heard. There was a surprise OOC test conducted back in January at a site where the majority of the elite athletes were suppose to be assembled. None of the top athletes were available on the initial day of testing, but were tested the following day and to the best of knowledge, there were no positives. Because the test did take place with in the 24 hour whereabouts window, nothing was published...end of the official story. However, the unofficial story is, why weren't the top athletes at the training site as expected? Where they tipped off? Was blood or urine tested? ...micro dosages of dope can easily clear the urine in 24 hours.

At the end of the day, I think the story was simply that EAA's AD was not up to WADA standards and/or not doing OOC testing and that an outside agency conducted some surprise testing.