Kenyan anti doping ageny is covering up positive tests

Ha! Point proven. Even that Deadspin piece is written from outside Ethiopia by a writer who will probably never be allowed in the country. All speculation from a distance.

Check out the Italian on the IAAF anti-doping commission back in the year 2013. His name is Giuseppe Fischetto. He is mentioned in a documentary on the Italian cheater-liar-fraud-racewalker Alex Schwazer.

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.

http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/iaaf-sabotage-alleged-in-testing-of-alex-schwazer/

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

We do not know how long this has been going on.

Lamine Diack was running the IAAF, with Lord Sebastian Coe as VP, for a long time. Gabriel Dolle was the head of anti-doping at the IAAF. He was found with $93,000 cash at his home. He is mentioned in the email from Nick Davies to Papa Massata Diack in which it is stated that they will use the Lausanne lab of Dr. Martial Saugy as a "Plan B" if there were problems with testing at the 2013 Moscow World Championships. The lab of Dr. Saugy is where the 67 Russian samples were destroyed, which prevented any further testing of the samples. Dr. Saugy was also the "blood test expert" for Ms. Paula Radcliffe and also had some controversy involving Lance Armstrong in the past.

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/11/12/iaaf-corruption-police-find-bribe-money-gabriel-dolle-home

We now have Lord Sebastian Coe as President of the IAAF.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/38809210

Lord Coe did not read the email from Dave Bedford.

Lord Coe sees no evil

Lord Coe hears no evil.

Lord Coe speaks no evil.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/38809210

No worries.

El Keniano wrote:

Ha! Point proven. Even that Deadspin piece is written from outside Ethiopia by a writer who will probably never be allowed in the country. All speculation from a distance.

If only wada and the iAAF reported the frequency of testing and the size of the testing pool every year...

Oh, that's right... They do.

Is this for realz

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Ha! Point proven. Even that Deadspin piece is written from outside Ethiopia by a writer who will probably never be allowed in the country. All speculation from a distance.

If only wada and the iAAF reported the frequency of testing and the size of the testing pool every year...

Oh, that's right... They do.

And it shows very few tests, nearly all of which are urinalysis. Which, for endurance sports means only an idiot that cannot afford the bribes gets sanctioned.

Top 25 Leaks wrote:

Is this for realz

Yes. If we can't get rid of Coe, we'll never get out of this ocean of corruption.

Turkey's Aslı Çakır Alptekin was told she could keep the Olympic gold medal she won in the 1500 metres at London 2012 if she paid a bribe of €650,000 (£490,000/$700,000).

Alptekin, however, found a doctor in The Netherlands who claimed he could help provide a medical explanation for her positive test and help her escape a ban. She was cleared by the TAF in December 2013, a decision that angered the IAAF, who made it clear they would appeal to the Court of Arbitration (CAS) for Sport.

Alptekin was then contacted by another son of the IAAF President, Khalil Diack, who was introduced to her by a second unnamed former TAF President.

Khalil Diack claimed he could persuade his father to ensure the IAAF did not appeal against the decision by the Turks to let her off.

Diack later sent a message to Alptekin on Whatapps, a social network platform, apologising for the appeal being lodged and claiming "that there is no justice".

The Pound note report noted: "They [Alptekin and her husband] felt they had been swindled as the case sped up and was not halted."

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1033284/turkey-olympic-1500m-gold-medallist-bribed-by-two-sons-of-lamine-diack

It was not just the Russians.

I wonder if there are any other runners in the past who had similar experiences.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/04/12/005A4F6F00000258-3303406-image-a-35_1446640504599.jpg

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/paula-radcliffe-of-great-britain-and-hicham-el-guerrouj-of-morrocco-picture-id1651860

Hi Paula.

What are you doing here on this thread?

What is this about?

Is Ms. Radcliffe talking about a lawsuit again?

Ms. Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 is equivalent (Purdy tables) to a 4:00 mile, 8:00 3K, 13:53 5K, and 29:03 10K. Paula is beyond Almaz Ayana, Wang Junxia, and the Dibabas. Paula is the best female long distance athlete who has ever lived on this planet.

From wiki:

She has previously asked for the results of a blood test taken at the London Marathon to be made public, saying that she had "absolutely no objection to my test being released".[115]

In 2015, in the wake of revelations of widespread doping in athletics,[116] Radcliffe said that, unlike some other prominent British athletes, she would not be releasing her blood-test history, and discouraged other athletes from doing so.[117] She was later indirectly identified as a suspected doper by MP Jesse Norman during a parliamentary inquiry into blood doping.[118][119] In response, Radcliffe issued a statement in which she "categorically denied" cheating in any form and said she has "nothing to hide".[120] Shortly afterwards, her three suspect test results were leaked, though Radcliffe still refused to release her complete blood-test history.[121] In late November 2015, the IAAF declared that the accusation were "based on the gross misinterpretation of incomplete data". The UK Anti Doping Agency, having received Radcliffe's blood test history via the IAAF, stated that "Ukad has come to the same conclusion as the IAAF review that there is no case to answer".[122]

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(Ross Tucker has Paula as a 7 out of 10 on his "suspicious" scale.)

Here are some results from his website of OFF scores from some blood test results:

The OFF score = hemoglobin(g/dL) x 10 - 60 x (square root of the reticulocyte%).

Here is the information used to come to a conclusion on Ms. Radcliffe:

On Oct. 2, 2003…two days before the World Championship Half-Marathon that she won…Paula had a blood test result which had a hemoglobin value of 12.8 g/dL, and a reticulocyte score of 0.59% (of RBCS), which make up an OFF score of 82 pre-race.

On Oct. 4, 2003…Paula had a blood test result which had a hemoglobin value of 15.6 g/dL, and a reticulocyte score of 0.47% (of RBCs), which make up an OFF score of 114.87 post-race. The IAAF report also stated that the increase was 2.8 g/dl. Since the final value on Oct. 4, 2003 is known to be 15.6 g/dL in the leaked values that were published in the Sunday Times, the hemoglobin value on Oct. 2, 2003 was 12.8 g/dL.

That is a 21.88% increase in hemoglobin value in 2 days, from 12.8 g/dL to 15.6 g/dL. The normal range for a female is 12.0 g/dL to 15.0 g/dL.

To get a rough estimate of hematocrit score (which many people are more familiar with), the hemoglobin score can be multiplied by 3, so the 12.8 Hb would be roughly equivalent to a hematocrit value of 38.4%. A 21.88% increase in hematocrit value in 2 days, from 38.4% to 46.8% is a very large magnitude increase...in a very short amount of time.

Even severe dehydration, which causes a loss of plasma volume, and elevates Hb values, does not increase hemoglobin values more than 10 to 15%…even in extreme dehydration after running for 2.5 to 3 hours and losing 4% of bodyweight. Paula only ran for 1 hour 7 minutes and also won the race.

Altitude training can increase Hb values by 5 to 10%…and takes 3 to 6 weeks to work. All types of EPO take weeks to work. Cobalt chloride takes weeks to work. Inhalation of the noble gases xenon or krypton to increase erythropoiesis also takes weeks to work. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) stabilizers such as FG-4592 also take weeks to work. No other drug or substance can work in only 2 days to increase hemoglobin values by such a large amount.

There is only one plausible explanation for hemoglobin values that increase by 21.88% in only 2 days:

1) An autologous blood transfusion by Ms. Paula Radcliffe.

(The reticulocyte score also shows a 20% decrease from 0.59% of RBCs to 0.47% of RBCs, which is also consistent with a blood transfusion, since the reticulocytes are diluted by the infusion of the old stored blood.)

In conclusion:

1) Ms. Paula Radcliffe is a Brit Doper-Cheater-Liarâ„¢.

For more reading on the mechanism of action:

Is Paula in tears from the Irish Mirror?

rjm33 wrote:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/38809210

Lord Coe did not read the email from Dave Bedford.

Lord Coe sees no evil

Lord Coe hears no evil.

Lord Coe speaks no evil.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/38809210

No worries.

WTH, Coe must have thought an email from Dave Bedford was some sort of Nigerian spam. It can be difficult to tell the difference sometimes.

Sarah Barker of Deadspin wrote:

"You might’ve assumed that with distance running powerhouse Ethiopia churning out world record holders like a 'Snackwell factory.' WADA would have been paying pretty close attention to that country....But you’d be wrong. There is almost no drug testing in Ethiopia."

"It’s hard to imagine what WADA has been doing in the 16 years they’ve been in business, since massive state-sponsored doping across a variety of sports in Russia, a system visible from outer space, also really caught them off-guard, but checking up on the Ethiopian branch office was not one of them."

"Shock all the way around then, because the World Anti-Doping Agency has apparently neither conducted testing of their own in Ethiopia, nor requested results from the national program. In fact, they seem to have just discovered Ethiopia."

"why 200 athletes? If there are actually fewer than 200 international competitors, will Ethiopian officials have to round up some lower level athletes to reach their quota? If there are more than 200 international competitors, how will they decide which athletes to test?

So many questions—journalists, too, are underfunded."

The moral of the story, Deadspin has a better handle on the sport than the IAAF or WADA. Now that is troubling.

Hey Ms. McColgan and Laura Muir.

What is going on here?

Do you think that this is funny?

Please stop training in Monaco with Paula.

The speedy 'wee sparra' Scot Laura Muir, Eilish McColgan, Lynsey Sharp, Andrew Lemoncello, Chris O'Hare, and Andrew Butchart have all joined the 2017 Flagstaff Scottish Runner Teamâ„¢.

You can see in the video that the Scots are checking their oxygen-hemoglobin saturation levels... for a doctor in Flagstaff.

It is just a coincidence.

Andrew Lemoncello lives in Portland, not Flagstaff. Thanks.