Athletics South Africa leaves out 13 athletes from Worlds with qualifying standard including Dominique Scott

NC Runner wrote:

The Swimmer wrote:

Athletics South Africa makes Athletics Kenya seem wholesome and pure.

Maybe wholesome because they actually send a whole team, but definitely not pure due to their doping past (and present for that matter)

You room-temperature-IQ posters are hilarious. You really think Athletics Kenya doped Rita Jeptoo and Jemima Sumgong? Carry on with your Kenya envy and obsession you insignificant giant little country, you.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

brutal racism on this thread, but of all the occasions to spend money, Athletics SA is choosing the worst time to pinch pennies, the very occasion toward where all the athletic spending is geared.

"Brutal" racism? Really?

Read the book long time ago wrote:

SDF#%%! wrote:

WVN (and others) should tell the federation that he will not go if they don't send the ones who have qualified! That would send a message and be a good moral thing to do (lots of LR readers will not understand)! At least allow them to fund raise and pay their own way.

The federation is being very short-sighted. They need to go for development.

Didn't Zatopek do exactly this back in '48 or '52?

Zatopek wasn't making millions (I'd guess WVN does) off of his performance though. Would you take a hit from your paycheck to stand up for a fellow coworker? Most people wouldn't. This is how these people make their living.

El Keniano wrote:

NC Runner wrote:

Maybe wholesome because they actually send a whole team, but definitely not pure due to their doping past (and present for that matter)

You room-temperature-IQ posters are hilarious. You really think Athletics Kenya doped Rita Jeptoo and Jemima Sumgong? Carry on with your Kenya envy and obsession you insignificant giant little country, you.

If a lot of runners in your country are doping then I believe the federation is partially responsible and the federation should take responsibility.

This does not exclude USATF/USADA, the Russians, or Ethiopia so it's not like I have something out for Kenya.

You're the one that is always heavily biased and has an obsession with Kenya.

Until your country stops producing more and more positive drug test for PED's, starts actually putting together an even remotely decent drug testing program, and does a better job at promoting anti-PED usage then yes, I will keep calling Athletics Kenya NOT PURE.

Rita Jeptoo and Jemima Sumgong were an absolute disgrace and embarrassment to the country.

Polm wrote:

asdfdsfd wrote:

Development. Reward. Incentive. Fairness. Let them raise their own money if their country doesn't want to pay for it. They met the standard and they should get to go. Could be once-in-a-lifetime thing for the athlete. It's about the athletes and not the bureaucrats you know!

And this is where you fail, pretty much all these athtletes have olympic or World champs participation, they are not young, some of them are in their 30s.

They already had (several) once in a lifetime opportunity.

And this experience is another reason to send these athletes if your goal is the greatest possible success for your national team. No one would have expected Meb to come in 4th at the 2012 Olympic marathon or Lagat to come in 4th in the 2016 5000m (3rd if the DQ hadn't been reversed). But they used their experience to maximize their success and were barely outside the medals.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. SA is starting out the WCs by voluntarily foregoing a number of shots. As I said in my 1st post, it's stupid, stupid, stupid.

Her looks alone should be enough to send her. Did she not sleep with the right people?

http://www.thepicta.com/media/1295729342713998840_233405525

Rojo wrote:

And it's not like Scott's not in good form. She just ran a 5 second pb in Monaco in the 3000 of 841. She'd also ran a 5-second pb in the 5000 in Rome of 15:20.

Less athletes however means more money for administrators.

[quote]A SA paper wrote:

The unlucky 13 include several Olympians‚ namely Henricho Bruintjies (100m)‚ Rynardt van Rensburg (800m)‚ Wayne Snyman (20km walk)‚ 400m hurdlers Cornel Fredericks and LJ van Zyl‚ 200m srinters Alyssa Conley and Justine Palframan‚ Dominique Scott (5000m) and Anel Oosthuizen (20km race walk).

Well, it looks like she (Scott) would not have made it past the 1st round of the 5k.

She has a PB of 15:20, and the last qualifier ran 15:07 (No, she would not have broken her PB by + 10s in the heats) .

Add to that the fact that South Africa is having its best WC meet (ranked 3rd so far).

What was the fuss all about ??