60 yr old doper nailed

Charlie wrote:

Bottomline USATF's SAMPLE COLLECTION AND CHAIN OF CUSTODY PROCEDURES NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT BY AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. As well as how they can document things were done correctly. Bottom line is it comes down he said she said which sucks.

I would agree. And there were other athletes being tested at that time that could be key witnesses to McPherson's claims. But it may up to McPherson to pursue this as USADA has already issued a statement on his claims. So, why is he taking this lying down? Take a gander at the case I referenced with the 62 yr old sprinter, Mr. Pizza. He didn't take his situation lying down and it sounds like he was mad as hell:

And look what happen after his appeal: 👍

So, you want everyone to feel sorry for McPherson though he doesn't seem very interested in pursuing the matter any further.

racewalkers dope a lot wrote:

Alex Schwazer said that he was the victim of a conspiracy and possible sabotage.

The pro's will say anything to save their skin...nothing new there. 😉

racewalkers dope a lot wrote:

This is why Coach Alberto did his "Possible Sabotage of Galen Rupp with Androgel" experiments, which had a total of two experimental subjects (Alberto's two sons) in the experiments. Alberto wanted to check to see if the application of 4 squirts (5 grams containing 50 mg. of testosterone) of a 1% testosterone gel to Galen Rupp (by sabotage) could cause the T/E ratio to go above the 4:1 ratio.

It did not go above the 4:1 ratio in his experiments.

Too funny because Rupp is listed on that Fancy Bear's hacked WADA file as "likely doping" with s 3-star priority rating (out of 5). Can't imagine what Salazar must have been thinking when that list leaked out. 😁

racewalkers dope a lot wrote:

Doping is very common in racewalkers.

No kidding! It sounds like they want to emulate the distance runners.😄

Very Strange Case wrote:

racewalkers dope a lot wrote:

Alex Schwazer said that he was the victim of a conspiracy and possible sabotage.

The pro's will say anything to save their skin...nothing new there. 😉

There were some interesting things in a documentary.

It features a 6 May recorded conversation where international race walking judge Nicola Maggio asks Donati to let other athletes win. A separate conversation on 23 May features Maggio telling Donati “don’t go looking for trouble with the Chinese”, which Donati alleges was an instruction for Schwazer not to compete with two Chinese race walkers trained by Sandro Damilano at the XXX Gran Premio Cantones de la Coruña on 28 May. Sandro Damilano is the brother of Maurizio Damilano, the Chairman of the IAAF Race Walking Committee. Schwazer eventually finished a close second to Zhen Wang, who is coached by Sandro Damilano.

Schwazer was initially sanctioned with a three-year six months ban in 2013, which was later extended. Bolzano prosecutors investigating the case at the time claimed to have uncovered evidence that the IAAF knew about Schwazer’s use of erythropoietin (EPO) in April 2012. As part of the investigation, Italian police removed computers from the home and offices of Giuseppe Fischetto, a member of the IAAF’s Anti-Doping Commission. Part of the recovered data was a blood database that was used as evidence of systemic doping in Russia.

The documentary features recordings from Fischetto taken in 2013, where he claims that the hard disks contain “a ton of confidential international stuff. I hope there is no information leak, because it would be an international scandal. Just think if the Russian data gets out, or the Turks, or others…because I’m on the IAAF Committee.”

(Whoops)

In the documentary, Schwazer complains that Fischetto was not suspended and went on to perform anti-doping roles in Russia and elsewhere, despite the evidence uncovered by the Bolzano prosecutors. This included performing an anti-doping test on Schwazer when he returned from his ban. Fischetto refuses to answer when questioned on this in the documentary.

We now know that the IAAF has a history of extorting money from athletes in order to cover up positive doping tests.

Didn't Oliver Twist eat goop? Or was that gruel?

Think This One Through wrote:

racewalkers dope a lot wrote:

But he said in a phone interview: “I was sitting in these bleachers and my hand touches this gob of lotion [as he leaned back to support himself] — it was beige. And the lady next to me said it’s only hand lotion, so I rubbed it in.”

It turns out that the lady next to him with the gob of lotion was Coach Alberto Salazar.

If you're competing at a big-time master's event where USADA is conducting drug tests, why would any competitor rub an unkown substance on themselves. If I accidentally leaned on some goop or something, I'd be washing that crap off ASAP - it could be full of something narly. 😳

I was all for this guy initially, but now I am having second thoughts based on his stupid-sounding excuses. The dude is sounding every bit as ridiculous as the kissing bandit. I wish he had kept his mouth shut so we could all just keep dumping on USADA for targeting gramps. He's actually making them look good.

second look wrote:

I was all for this guy initially, but now I am having second thoughts based on his stupid-sounding excuses. The dude is sounding every bit as ridiculous as the kissing bandit. I wish he had kept his mouth shut so we could all just keep dumping on USADA for targeting gramps. He's actually making them look good.

I agree, apart from looking mean and dangerous, he also looks shifty and deceitful.

This from an optometrist:

“it was actually three. There were two partials and a full. I had my distance glasses on. You know, when you’re 60, you can’t see as close."

Definitely "sounding every bit as ridiculous as the kissing bandit", FMD all he had do was what I do, take off your distance glasses and move in on the writing until you can read it, same as I'm doing now with my VDU, and he's an optometrist FFS. I smell a rat.

second look wrote:

I was all for this guy initially, but now I am having second thoughts based on his stupid-sounding excuses. The dude is sounding every bit as ridiculous as the kissing bandit. I wish he had kept his mouth shut so we could all just keep dumping on USADA for targeting gramps. He's actually making them look good.

I don't know if I would go that far in USADA looking good. USADA never says what the reason was to test a lone participate in an event that didn’t set any records (e.g., WR, NR, MR, WL). Now does USADA test all winners of every event at these big-time masters's gigs, or are they allocated a certain number of random tests to use anyway they see fit? (I don’t compete at that high-level, so I have no idea what protocol they use). If it's random, why then was a lone wolf competitor targeted if no records were set? And if it's a limited number of random tests, then this one might have been wasted and could have been used to catch someone who actually cheated another competitor out of a medal.

On the "goop" story: it's definitely weird, but do you really expect anyone testing positive for a banned substance at any level to just freely admit guilt & apologize? That doesn't seem to be the M.O. these days. No one at any level of competition, not matter how mundane, wants the embarrassment of testing positive. I remember several years back at the start line of simple, local 5k where the top 3 in each age-group get a cheap ribbon and a handshake, a middle-aged competitor asked me if they "tested" at this race. I said "no...not here" and he said "good!...I didn't think so either." I don't think the guy even finished in the top 3 in his age-group. 😁

Very Strange Case wrote:

On the "goop" story: it's definitely weird, 😁

Word is he's a bit of a stud and has a lot of hot chicks on the side, apparently some babe heard about this and wanted a piece of the action but he knocked her back. It was her who set the whole thing up and paid the woman mentioned in the article to spread the "goop" and tell him it was only hand cream, she then tipped off the testers.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. 😁

Must be something going on at that Albuquerque venue - last year at the indoor championships an elite master's hurdler tested positive for steroids. Doesn't sound like it was the "goop" substance found in the bleachers situation...just the usual "contaminated supplement" defense. Lol.

http://roidvisor.com/elite-masters-track-athlete-liz-palmer-suspended-usada-testing-positive-dianbol-metabolites/

TrackCEO wrote:

Scott McPherson of Lubbock, Texas, spoke to me at length Wednesday and briefly Friday about his much-covered USADA 4-year doping ban.

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Thank you for the followup. A couple of questions:

1. When will the USADA or Scott McPherson release the full lab report(s) detailing what was found and at what levels? I'd be shocked if that full lab report wasn't available to the athlete.

2. What do the other tested athletes say about the testing procedure at that event? What are they willing to say anonymously? Publically?

3. Given the claim about the chaos in the testing area, what were other tested athletes asked by the USADA in their followup investigation?

It's too bad that the mystery woman in the stands can't be found.

Fact Check? wrote:

It's too bad that the mystery woman in the stands can't be found.

She'll never be found, she's back in Moscow by now having done Putin's work and is sitting back having a vodka on ice with him.

Mission accomplished for him, proof that Americans are dopers from the lowest inconsequential walker to the highest elite.

Expect more of this sort of thing unless their athletes are cleared and welcomed back in to the fold.

The CIR test was utilized which can distinguish between naturally produced testosterone & synthetic use regardless of the T/E ratio. It has to be the exogenous use of testosterone to produce a positive...period. Pills, injections, topical ointments & gels of T will all produce a positive. That's why so many of the elites come up desperate stories of contaminated supplements & food products, sabotage by their message therapist, took a male enhancement product, thought it was an innocuous anti-inflammatory cream, and so on, and so forth.

Are you serious? Yeah...wouldn't you like to see the hands of a woman who uses testosterone cream as a hand lotion? 😅