Aden's athletes test negative, will compete in Rio

Back in 1998, the Festina cycling team's soigneur was caught with a car trunk full of PEDs including EPO, steroids etc, This was enough to get the Festina team banned from the Tour de France. They protested that none of their riders had tested positive but the circumstantial evidence was there and good enough for the governing bodies to take action. Later, after interrogation by French judicial authorities, many of the Festina riders did confess that they had been using PEDs to compete in cycling.

It is obvious that Aden's training group have been doping and they should not be allowed to compete in Rio. This site should not really be covering the T and F events in Rio as the authorities are obviously turning a blind eye to PED use in T and F, possibly as a result of a fair amount of cash being paid to the powers that be if previous events are anything to go by.

Get a grip crybaby

No epo was found in Jama's room

DT knows the dope wrote:

DT knows the dope. That's why he bailed to Peru where drug testing doesn't exist.

Careful, DT will have your thread deleted if it doesn't praise him.

That is because he is committed to open discussions of all athletes other than himself and his training partners.

Yeah, it will be awkward for Nike-paid Paula the anti-doping crusader to announce these events without discussing the recent doping news on her doped Nike colleagues.

clean sport lol wrote:

THEY FOUND EPO IN HIS HOTEL ROOM. SOMEBODY WAS TAKING IT AND YET NOBODY TESTS POSITIVE. EVERYBODY ACTS LIKE SINCE THEY ALL TESTED NEGATIVE THEN THERE NOTHING BAD WAS HAPPENING

THEY FOUND EPO

IN

HIS

ROOM

WHO WAS TAKING IT?!?!?!

this sport is so stupid sometimes.

If the found cocaine in their rooms but no one was snorting it then they are scott free

It's obvious now that they should have had the rooms themselves under camera surveillance so that they could catch them in the act of doping. Did they test negative after bribes or just because they were micro-dosing? It is a farce that they will compete in Rio. And it is not clear that they will be a shell of their former selves based on how well Souleiman ran recently. But it would certainly not surprising to see them as also-rans in the finalists, not in it for the win in the last 200m.

And it is not as if they found one tube of Androgel. They found dozens and dozens of pre-filled and used syringes with EPO and steroids in their coach and trainer's rooms, when the coach had paid for all the rooms of his 20 athletes.

How depressing would it be to be a clean athlete?

Running against blatant dopers.

I guess the lesson is clear—you have nothing—NOTHING--to lose from micro-dosing. And you can probably get away with more, too.

Has the IAAF commented on this? At all??

Yylo wrote:

Shaddapayouface wrote:

No it's not. If you don't like it, don't watch. But spare us the "the sport has no integrity" nonsense.

When the probable women's 1500 gold medalist is allowed to run after her coach is caught with EPO at the same hotel she is staying at, that's pretty farcical. And very unfair to clean athletes.

It looks like the women's 1500 will be no cleaner than in 2012.

Agreed. +1.

It's a disgrace that his athletes are allowed to go to Rio. They are obviously doping and know when and how to dope in order to pass the tests. I hope they are 'randomly' tested every day between now and Rio.

That's unfair. I have heard Cram and Hutchings tell the viewers about athletes who have failed drug tests on many occasions. You have to remember that every time they do so, some TV exec probably gives them a talk down and a slapped wrist.

But both commentators have detailed knowledge of who has taken and have show. They are not afraid to allude to it.

Cram and Radcliffe work for Nike, they only comment on doping when it's in their interests. For example they mention Aden but don't mention that Farah trains with him. They talk about transparency but not when it involves Paula's results.

I think the public is stupid at times.

Can you please tell me why you believe they found EPO in his hotel room?

Please read this article:

This stuff is very hard to prove.

They'd need to physiotherapist or athlete to flip but it's possible a) Aden wasn't involved or b) they are scared to flip

all the early reports said there was EPO in HIS ROOM. why should I believe in this interview article instead of the early reports?

Regardless of whether any of the athletes tested positive, the authorities should have been able to match their DNA to the used syringes, if they had taken that next step.

Nike snipe wrote:

Cram and Radcliffe work for Nike, they only comment on doping when it's in their interests. For example they mention Aden but don't mention that Farah trains with him. They talk about transparency but not when it involves Paula's results.

Well Cram has been very critical of Gatlin, who is also sponsored by Nike, so that kind of contradicts what you are insinuating!

jjjjjj wrote:

And it is not as if they found one tube of Androgel. They found dozens and dozens of pre-filled and used syringes with EPO and steroids in their coach and trainer's rooms, when the coach had paid for all the rooms of his 20 athletes.

Now if that's true. Again, I haven't seen that confirmed since the initial reports, then I agree with you. And if the physio was paid by Aden then I agree with you.

But if some random athlete or physio in a hotel has a vial or two of some illegal substance, then you can't just ban them all. We need proof of systematic doping.

AW Pharmacy wrote:

Regardless of whether any of the athletes tested positive, the authorities should have been able to match their DNA to the used syringes, if they had taken that next step.

good point.

AW Pharmacy wrote:

Regardless of whether any of the athletes tested positive, the authorities should have been able to match their DNA to the used syringes, if they had taken that next step.

People here equate syringes with illegal but that's not the case in track. For sure we would have known by now if they found PED's on the syringes as the mossos have put a lot of effort and prestige into this raid.

Also there's never been any 'early reports' stating there was epo found in aden's room. People who make up things like that discredit the attempts at fighting drugs

Shady stuff may have gone on but inventing 'evidence' does not help as it will discredit the real evidence if there is any as people will wonder whether someone's just making things up again