Breaking: Olympic 100h Champ Brianna Rollins gets 12-month ban for 3 whereabouts violations

She sounds legit. How was she supposed to know in advance?

1) Her flight time

2) That she would be meeting with the President

3) That she would be attending Brianna Rollins day

This could happen to anyone. It would be completely unreasonable to expect other upstanding athletes to predict this these fluke circumstances. She can't tell the future. She should be immediately restored eligibility and maybe get a bonus for finding flaws in the system.

She avoided one test after another, despite being warned. These cheats need lifetime banning.

ybgyjk wrote:

While the whole notion of self policing is ridiculous, we Americans actually seem to have a national ada that is hell bent on catching people.

Sarcasm?

If not, just a few USADA facts out of the top of my head:

- Armstrong got away for over a decade

- Rupp got away with receiving testosterone medication

- Salazar got away with administering testosterone medication

- Salazar got away with testosterone experiments on his son

- Salazar got away with possessing banned drugs without "valid justification"

- Salazar got away with sending drugs in hollowed books across borders

- Salazar got away with doping Magness

- Magness got away with doping

- NOP athletes got away with lying to doctors to get TUEs

- NOP athletes got away with lying to USADA about their injections

- Cabada got away with clenbuterol

- Rollins got away with dashing through security instead of waiting for the tester

What fanbois like to ignore, is that the missed test rule is only about inadvertently missed tests, whereas test evasion should lead to an immediate ban. Unfortunately NADOs like USADA and UKAD view literally every missed test as inadvertently missed, even if the athlete runs away from the tester or hides in his house.

ArticulateLarry wrote:

She avoided one test after another, despite being warned. These cheats need lifetime banning.

You skipped over the contents of what I wrote. Why would she be taking drugs immediately before a competition or when she's in the middle of a long break from training?

UK Who? wrote:

Hey Mr. Athletics Coach, I've always wondered who you have actually coached. Who have you coached and what are their times?

What does that have to do with her not turning up for drugs tests?

El Keniano wrote:

Why would you trust Pearson over the Americans? She isn't built like a proper sprinter in the first place.

Bollocks. She looked like a sprinter from two metres away last time I saw her. She can barely run a 400 without throwing up.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Why would she be taking drugs immediately before a competition or when she's in the middle of a long break from training?

In April? Maybe the doping was in preparation for the Olympics, not for that tune-up fun race.

In September? Maybe she started her new build-up a couple of weeks after her gold medal from mid-August.

But yeah, maybe she was really clean on Sep-13, but didn't pay too much attention as she could afford one more missed test. And on Sep-27, 6 weeks after her gold medal, she couldn't risk getting caught with steroids and whatnot: easier to fight missed tests than a positive test. Plus not as damaging, as you see in this thread.

casual obsever wrote:

In April? Maybe the doping was in preparation for the Olympics, not for that tune-up fun race.

Then why the hell would she go to a race with doping controls if she had just shot up?

casual obsever wrote:

In September? Maybe she started her new build-up a couple of weeks after her gold medal from mid-August.

But yeah, maybe she was really clean on Sep-13, but didn't pay too much attention as she could afford one more missed test. And on Sep-27, 6 weeks after her gold medal, she couldn't risk getting caught with steroids and whatnot: easier to fight missed tests than a positive test. Plus not as damaging, as you see in this thread.

She probably started training sometime in October, maybe November. And her career is basically over. Ten years ago, she probably could have picked up where she left off, but not anymore.

scorpion_runner wrote:

It is not the USADA responsibility to make sure that she is tested when she is supposed to be tested, IT IS HER RESPONSIBLITY IF SHE WANTS TO MAINTAIN HERE ELGIBILITY AS A T AND F ATHLETE IN THE USA.

OF COURSE it's the DA's responsibility to make sure she's tested when she's supposed to be tested, and NOT any athlete's responsibility. They are the ones who are conducting the tests, NOT the athlete's. Just because the tester was not there in time to test her was the tester's issue, not hers. You're the one who is thick.

El Keniano wrote:

An American cheat. I do not trust dirty team USA. Ban the whole country until they get their act together.

See how intelligent I sound?

Obviously the whole country is corrupt.

Until Trump takes control of these organizations and there's a complete revamp instead of constant coverups, the entire USA should be banned, the same as is Russia. There is absolutely no difference between them.

Lobotomy wrote:

She sounds legit. How was she supposed to know in advance?

1) Her flight time

2) That she would be meeting with the President

3) That she would be attending Brianna Rollins day

This could happen to anyone. It would be completely unreasonable to expect other upstanding athletes to predict this these fluke circumstances. She can't tell the future. She should be immediately restored eligibility and maybe get a bonus for finding flaws in the system.

+1

Flights, meeting the president, and Brianna Rollins Day sound exactly like the kind of things that had to be planned in advance. They should have been some of the easiest things to enter correctly into the system.

Actual facts wrote:

How the hell would the tester get through security without a ticket or boarding pass? Have you ever been to an airport?

The tester can't do it, but you expect the athlete to do it????

That's the definition of stupidity.

That's the point obviously wrote:

Actual facts wrote:

How the hell would the tester get through security without a ticket or boarding pass? Have you ever been to an airport?

The tester can't do it, but you expect the athlete to do it????

That's the definition of stupidity.

Presumably the athlete did have a boarding pass.

If they knew she was travelling to Drake Relays, and they knew there would be multiple elite athletes at Drake that could be tested in one location, why wouldn't USADA simply have one tester at Drake to test multiple athletes in one location rather than trying to track down individuals at their home? It seems terribly ineffective from a cost standpoint.

I just don't get how it's incomptence or how USADA looks bad.

Everyone is talking about how a 'drop-down' menu cost her this. I think the incompetence if there is any - goes to Rollins, USATF and her agent. What we are disputing here is test #1. You'd think after she misses #2 - USATF and her agent (not sure if the agent knew but if he was smart he'd be damn sure he knew) - people would be FREAKING out. Instead, she misses #3.

To me, the only incompetence on USADAs part is bothering to test anyone in September. It just seems like a waste of resources but I don't know -could you get so jacked up on Roids in September that it would still help you the next july.

I have no idea if she was doping either but you sound like the same people who said roids couldn't help you in baseball as it doesn't impact your hand eye coordination. Guess what - roids make you faster. THey make you stronger. That helps you in just about everything.

I wish I could remember the line David Epstein once told me but it was like PEDs can help you in like every sport but something really funny.

Another confusion ;what is the airport business all about ?

The rules preclude testing in a toilet that is not secure and thus not one in the airport unless set it was set up in advance .

Why did DCO do more than she should have done .

Not just this thread...

wejo wrote:

There is a lot of disinformation all around in this thread.

google post cycle therapy

Lydiard is God wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

'She didn't fail any drug tests'

Missing 3 drugs test is the equivalent of failing at test.

Don't understand why only one year?

Our own CO 400m runner was given a 2 year ban and was only reduced to one year when they reduced it to 1 year when they believed her bs story on appeal. That was at the time when the doping ban was 2 year not 4 as its supposed to be now

12.26 always looked suspect

Yeah, funny how all these young Americans blaze past Sally Pearson's stupendous effort and time, which was the culmination of an athletic lifetime of fvcking hard work.

I don't expect distance runners to understand sprint events so it is understandable you should make such an uninformed statement. Performance in sprint and sprint/explosive related events is 99% natural talent (i.e. genetics.) The reason "all these young Americans blaze past Sally Pearson's stupendous effort and time,..." is because from an athletic standpoint the young Americans are genetically superior. One look at Pearson shows she doesn't have the natural athletic gifts these young (virtually all black except for a couple of rare cases) Americans possess. If it were just a matter of hard work and effort then Muy Thai kick boxers would dominate world sprint events because they are among the hardest and most dedicated training groups of athletes. But it doesn't work that way. I know that fact is difficult for you Commonwealth types to swallow, what with your cultural work ethic, your manifest destiny myth and all that.

I once was misinformed like you, until I started learning how athletics actually works. Many, many years ago I would watch black American ghetto kids simply dominate and destroy all others in the sprint events. Many of those ghetto kids were barely eating enough food, their training consisted of a little jogging and a few sprints separated by 15+ minutes of rest, maybe a few days in the weight room in the off season. I, like you, also thought they were "lazy". And you know what? Even back then there were a bunch of Commonwealth ex-pats from places like New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain, lurking in the background bad mouthing our young black sprinters. Middle aged guys who worked out religiously, so desperate to be seen as great athletes yet lacking the most important attribute - a high percentage of fast twitch muscle fiber. Sorry, but you don't get to have a monopoly on all the good DNA. Voltaire said one should be happy with one's position in life, so why don't you just be a good chap and go back to being an accountant and enjoy watching athletics on the telly, instead of wasting precious time (remember that work ethic) bad mouthing American sprinters on a message board.