How much will people boo Gatlin when he gets on the podium?

Nothing Specific wrote:

If someone were truly against doping, they would boo every race

If someone were truly against theft, they would punish everybody instead of just convicted thieves, because most people have stolen something.

The endless parade of idiots who can't tell the difference between a suspected doper and a proven doper is starting to piss me off. You can give one the benefit of the doubt, but not the other.

Sure, there is no doubt OJ was innocent.

snowflake runner wrote:

Ukclubrunner wrote:

IAAF and Coe need to sort out the sport. .

No you've got it the wrong way round the sport needs to sort out Coe and IAAF.

Bam!

Ceremony now moved from prime time to before main events start.

i guess that major booing is not necessarily good for marketing.

We should still get a boo meter out there.

snowflake runner wrote:

100%, the consistency of the booing from 2012 to now i find the most suspicious. Has gatlin doped during the time frame , obviously no.

Nice sarcasm.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Nothing Specific wrote:

If someone were truly against doping, they would boo every race

If someone were truly against theft, they would punish everybody instead of just convicted thieves, because most people have stolen something.

The endless parade of idiots who can't tell the difference between a suspected doper and a proven doper is starting to piss me off. You can give one the benefit of the doubt, but not the other.

Boy, did you miss my point, and I mean completely. I said boo the IAAF (the real problem), not specific dopers, whether convicted or you simply suspect them.

You pulled one sentence from my first post, and came up with that weird thief analogy. Benefit of the doubt to whom? If you want to argue that the IAAF isn't the problem, have at it. But, I'm no idiot.

Will London make Gatlin quit track?

He's 35 y.o.

He has climbed back to the top.

Now he is getting the worse treatment, when (in his mind) he should be the happiest.

It will be a very embarrassing moment for him, that will feel like an eternity.

Pretty easy to say f$&k that... and walk away. What else can he achieve and why?

It will be interesting to see how he reacts to all this.

Americans just don't mind cheats. There is a reason more of them are in prison than any other country. They always have reasons for this none of which is ever Americans break the law a lot.

I'm not watching. I just can't take it anymore. The Aden thing has done me in. The sport at the elite level is a joke. Was Farah even tired at the end of his race? Were any of the medalists? Bah

Link wrote:

I'm not watching. I just can't take it anymore. The Aden thing has done me in. The sport at the elite level is a joke. Was Farah even tired at the end of his race? Were any of the medalists? Bah

You make it sound like it's the worst ever.

Do you remember the late 60s and 70s. Athletes were taking massive doses of steroids + blood doping. East Germany and the USSR had government funded PED programs. Other countries had club/coach organized programs.

Then the 80s started. Kratochvilova, Johnson, Issayenko, Flo-jo, Koch, Vainio...

Then the 90s. Ma's army, the EPO era. It seems like everybody could run a sub 13 in the 90s. Johnson (yes, him again), Krabbe, Mitchell, Reynolds...

Then the 00s. Marion Jones, Montgomery, Boulami, Chambers, Gatlin, Jacobs, Ramzi, Saidi-Sief, Thanou, Kelli White...

Why do you feel that it's worse now? If anything, running a sub 10 seems to be more difficult now than it was 5 years ago.

We in America hate cheaters except if they are our athletes.

We are quick to accuse great performances on drug use even when the winner has never tested positive. Yet a twice caught American cheater wins and we love him.

God I love being American.......

Sorry, he was caught on long time ago and served his sentence. He has come back and beaten everybody. Give him his due.

Mo F has not been caught, but look what he is doing and when he is doing it? Not to mention, who he is doing it with. Get over it.

And for the Brits, time to shut up and and get some dental work. You are England, not Great Britain, nothing great about you anymore. Just a dumpy little country that wouldn't exist if the good ole USA hadn't bailed your ass out of a couple of wars. So shut up.

LDN wrote:

snowflake runner wrote:

A lot of people don't like him due to doping obviously, but the British public just don't know how widespread of a problem doping is in athletics.

Probably something in this. Most tickets ever sold for a World Champs. 700k over the Championships. London has the population and enough wealth to sell the stadium out every day. The big crowds are great, but athletics doesn't have this many fans. You're making up the numbers here with a decent chunk of people who have fond memories of 2012 and want to cheer for Bolt and Mo. A fair number in the crowd won't know much about a lot of the medalists but they will know Gatlin is the pantomime baddie.

Not quite true. There are many more days than the sessions that feature Bolt or Farah and they have all sold extremely well. If you tried to buy tickets you'd see hardly anything was available at the end.

Reality is that the award ceremony will be held at 6:50pm, immediately after the Women 10000m ceremony. The first race starts at 7:10pm... Stands will be pretty empty.

Media will have a field day with that. Expect many replays of this ceremony, with corresponding commentary that organizers changed the time to avoid pie in face. Of course, there would have been many replays anyway of the booing fest, but...

Vghghvghvhgvvgh wrote:

Reality is that the award ceremony will be held at 6:50pm, immediately after the Women 10000m ceremony. The first race starts at 7:10pm... Stands will be pretty empty.

Media will have a field day with that. Expect many replays of this ceremony, with corresponding commentary that organizers changed the time to avoid pie in face. Of course, there would have been many replays anyway of the booing fest, but...

Seb Coe said it was a admin error. Sounds like some bs to me. London and marketing Bolt b0ner was blocked with the gatlin win.

mont show wrote:

Vghghvghvhgvvgh wrote:

Reality is that the award ceremony will be held at 6:50pm, immediately after the Women 10000m ceremony. The first race starts at 7:10pm... Stands will be pretty empty.

Media will have a field day with that. Expect many replays of this ceremony, with corresponding commentary that organizers changed the time to avoid pie in face. Of course, there would have been many replays anyway of the booing fest, but...

Seb Coe said it was a admin error. Sounds like some bs to me. London and marketing Bolt b0ner was blocked with the gatlin win.

No, in all cases, 100m podium > LJ podium

Bolt's last individual podium would have been greatly appreciated anyway

Booing gold medal winner of track's #1 event is not good.

Trying to "cover it up" to protect image. Priceless 😀

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

snowflake runner wrote:

A lot of people don't like him due to doping obviously, but the British public just don't know how widespread of a problem doping is in athletics. Everyone in that 100m final is doped to the eyeballs, 60% of runners in 10k yesterday is doped. Soon there'll be huge busts 10x more than the lance episode.

Hilarious, the crowd obviously knew nothing about t&f.

I think you'll find they are a pretty knowledgeable crowd who aren't as fickle as many others, and don't have short memories. I've heard British crowds boo their own man, Chambers, at meets, so they are consistent with their behaviour.

Of course there are other athletes there with lower profiles that have returned after doping offences, and no they haven't yet booed them. But I can't think of many who are competing who have failed 2 drug tests!?

Gatlin showed no contrition and never apologised for what he did. In many fans' eyes, rightly or wrongly, he is closely associated with the demise of the sport over the last 10 years or so. Of course many who closely follow the sport know that it isn't as simple as that, but we can't criticise and point fingers at athletes on almost every thread, who haven't even tested positive, and then get all precious about a crowd booing someone who has doped twice, who has criticised Bolt and who has likely benefitted from the long term benefits of steroid use, even after stopping. You can't have it both ways, and the punishment of dopers, mainly due to legal obstacles, is far too lenient. It's a good reminder to those that choose to cheat that they should expect criticism and lack of respect from the fans.

Gatlin, and all other proven and caught dopers will get no sympathy from me. Yes, booing is probably a step too far, more akin to a football crowd than athletics, and perhaps just silence would have been more appropriate when his name was announced, but at least the crowd shows enthusiasm and interest in the sport. When fans of the sport are hemorrhaging all over the world, with pitiful attendances in many national championships, I don't think I've ever seen a maximum at a major championships in morning sessions! We need these numbers to keep the sport in the mainstream and rejuvinate interest in T&F. It's just been on one of the main channels for 6+ hours with continuous live coverage.

sorta funny that Coe has to present Gatlin his medal

Here is something to make all you Gatlin fans happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFFoxWPQVzU