Epic fail: Abeba aregawi tested positive for doping

2012 Olympic final:

1st Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey 4:10.23 - busted

2nd Gamze Bulut Turkey 4:10.40 - implicated

3rd Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 4:10.74

4 Tatyana Tomashova Russia 4:10.90 implicated

5 Abeba Aregawi Ethiopia 4:11.03 busted

6 Shannon Rowbury United States 4:11.26

LOL, now Shannon Rowbury is the #2 non tainted performance

mad bro alert wrote:

You know who wrote:

I know you're a moron who doesn't understand the concepts of evidence and proof.

Do some reading on argumentation, advocacy, and reasoning, and get back to me.

U mad bro?

F U C K Y E S I A M . Y O U H A V E N O I D E A .

IF YOU KNEW HALF OF WHAT I KNOW, YOU WOULD BE MAD, TOO.

rsvt wrote:

jenny is the coolest girl in the world.

I totally agree, and she's cute!

It is really difficult to take this sport seriously.

If you know so much, state specific evidence.

And try not to just say "learn how to reason". Show me how to reason if you know so much. Don't reply to insult those doubting you, we are just trying to be skeptical of things at face value, which is presumably something you also value given your "evidence" of so much doping.

Also, why don't jumpers dope? Less competitive? Doping would surely help an explosive power event like jumping, or is the argument that the technique required means that doping isn't as big of a help?

I am genuinely just trying to understand here, because you are saying a lot of stuff with no proof.

On this list she is #1 non-tainted. Jamal just wasn't caught yet.But you made a good point, very sad to see how this has compromised our sport so much.

HardLoper wrote:

2012 Olympic final:

1st Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey 4:10.23 - busted

2nd Gamze Bulut Turkey 4:10.40 - implicated

3rd Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 4:10.74

4 Tatyana Tomashova Russia 4:10.90 implicated

5 Abeba Aregawi Ethiopia 4:11.03 busted

6 Shannon Rowbury United States 4:11.26

LOL, now Shannon Rowbury is the #2 non tainted performance

On this list she is #1 non-tainted. Jamal just wasn't caught yet.But you made a good point, very sad to see how this has compromised our sport so much.

HardLoper wrote:

2012 Olympic final:

1st Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey 4:10.23 - busted

2nd Gamze Bulut Turkey 4:10.40 - implicated

3rd Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 4:10.74

4 Tatyana Tomashova Russia 4:10.90 implicated

5 Abeba Aregawi Ethiopia 4:11.03 busted

6 Shannon Rowbury United States 4:11.26

LOL, now Shannon Rowbury is the #2 non tainted performance

hart crane wrote:

It is really difficult to take this sport seriously.

Totally agree with you, the athletics was on TV the other day and I turned it off after 30 minutes. Finally lost my enthusiasm after years of competing and being a fan. Don't know what to believe anymore.

I will watch athletics again, but I'm much more wary of some athletes "performances".

Although some runners like Jenny Simpson still inspire me. I think it's great that Alexi Pappas could run for Greece in the Olympics, and she's got a great imagination!

Aregawi seems like a troubled woman in general. Sad.

Abeba aregawi tested positive for doping. Good recruitment by sweden

Aregawi has recent tax problems in Sweden and says she prefers not to live there and suddenly she tests positive. What a coincidence! (Not saying she is clean - am saying it looks a lot like a federation punishing an athlete.)

Wouldn't it be interesting if lots of the top T&F athletes have already tested positive and the federations are sitting on the results to use against the athletes when "necessary."

Jenny Speaks

and she wants her medal

Jenny Simpson ‏@trackjenny 16m16 minutes ago

No such thing as part-time clean, part-time cheat. #lifetimeclean or #lifetimeban

Sorry for the double reply.

It's interesting that Sweden started throwing her under the bus just before the drug news came out... Probably orchestrated.

Reminded me during the whole Ben Johnson thing when a Toronto radio commentator observed how Canadian he was when he won the medal and how Jamaican he was when he had to give it back.

I was in Toronto with a room full of Canadian's when he won it and there isn't a truer statement...

they really should go back and delete you from every result if you test positive. You want to come back in four years and try again, ok fine. but everything you ever did gets erased.

damnatio memoraia

What a coincidence! wrote:

Aregawi has recent tax problems in Sweden"

Those "tax problems" amount to $1300.

tendtoagreewitu wrote:

hart crane wrote:

It is really difficult to take this sport seriously.

Totally agree with you, the athletics was on TV the other day and I turned it off after 30 minutes. Finally lost my enthusiasm after years of competing and being a fan. Don't know what to believe anymore.

I will watch athletics again, but I'm much more wary of some athletes "performances".

Although some runners like Jenny Simpson still inspire me. I think it's great that Alexi Pappas could run for Greece in the Olympics, and she's got a great imagination!

Aregawi seems like a troubled woman in general. Sad.

I'm to the point where I pick half a dozen runners I believe in and leave it at that. I don't care about anyone else.

I fast forward through the sprints and throws.

I won't buy a ticket to a pro meet anymore - too disgusted

And then when a couple of american distance runners test positive, I'll probably stop even watching meets on TV.

I always thought Abeba was good because she was Androgenic and that her recent poor form was because she was being forced by IAAF to take hormone therapy.

HardLoper wrote:

2012 Olympic final:

1st Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey 4:10.23 - busted

2nd Gamze Bulut Turkey 4:10.40 - implicated

3rd Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 4:10.74

4 Tatyana Tomashova Russia 4:10.90 implicated

5 Abeba Aregawi Ethiopia 4:11.03 busted

6 Shannon Rowbury United States 4:11.26

LOL, now Shannon Rowbury is the #2 non tainted performance

This is now beyond depressing... And difficult not to doubt everyone... Including the "non tainted."

At least the failure was made public in a relatively short amount of time.

Agree with all the above and I'm a lifetime follower and participant of T&F. I had the opportunity to go to six of the last World Champs but just didn't have confidence that what I would be seeing wouldn't be drug tainted. Glad now I didn't spend the dollars.

Jamal was a dirty runner and filthy racer. Just ask Helen Obiri and Morgan Uceny.Neither she nor Bulut got popped but it was so obvious.

Stating the obvious wrote:

On this list she is #1 non-tainted. Jamal just wasn't caught yet.

But you made a good point, very sad to see how this has compromised our sport so much.

HardLoper wrote:

2012 Olympic final:

1st Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey 4:10.23 - busted

2nd Gamze Bulut Turkey 4:10.40 - implicated

3rd Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain 4:10.74

4 Tatyana Tomashova Russia 4:10.90 implicated

5 Abeba Aregawi Ethiopia 4:11.03 busted

6 Shannon Rowbury United States 4:11.26

LOL, now Shannon Rowbury is the #2 non tainted performance