It's really simple, hardly anybody in that stadium knows who Yohan Blake is.
It's really simple, hardly anybody in that stadium knows who Yohan Blake is.
Dr. Coleman wrote:
fatbody wrote:https://theislandjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/yohan-blake.jpg?w=500Gatlin has massive, steroidy guns. It's like a big flashing neon sign above his head that says "I'm a doper".
+10 Doc...
fatbody wrote:
Gatlin has massive, steroidy guns. It's like a big flashing neon sign above his head that says "I'm a doper".
That used to be the case. Now it's the super lean sprinters and skeleton distance guys who I immediately suspect.
I met Gatlin once. I spoke with him for a bit about training for speed. I'm a distance runner and coach. He seemed to really enjoy the discussion. I thought he was a good guy... this was before all the "drug issues".
somebloke wrote:
Dr. Coleman wrote:When watching a replay of the men's 100 final today I noticed Justin Gatlin was booed coming out of the tunnel while Yohan Blake received a loud applause. Yeah Gatlin was busted in the past but Blake also served a drug ban too. Is there some reason i'm missing to let Blake slide? The whole crowd just came off as a bunch of hypocrites to me. Best guess is that the British press never even mentions Blake's suspension.
If you really have to boo, boo them all.
Gatlin is not a likeable guy. end of thread.
Carnatine Kid wrote:
I met Gatlin once. I spoke with him for a bit about training for speed. I'm a distance runner and coach. He seemed to really enjoy the discussion. I thought he was a good guy... this was before all the "drug issues".
somebloke wrote:Gatlin is not a likeable guy. end of thread.
Based on all his interviews and his continuous grind over all these years to get back to the top, I find him to be the most "likable former PED user in track" if that means anything. Still can't help but think to myself when I watch him race: "I really really really really hope he's clean now".
pr100 wrote:
Mostly because most of the crowd don't know that Blake has served a drug ban.
This is the truth.
60k in the stadium every night. Track doesn't have this many loyal fans. But London does have this many fans who want to go to an event that looks like London 2012. Blake was Robin to Bolt's Batman at London 2012.
Of course, many of the people in the stadium are from other nations.
They didn't boo Mantsho either.
Blake is a unique case in that he was never sanctioned by WADA. Instead he was "provisionally" banned by JADCO (3 months I think) pending a WADA review of his sample. JADCO found that a substance in Yohan's sample had a chemical composition that was "almost" identical to something else that was on the WADA banned list. He was cleared by WADA but the stimulant was added to their banned list the following year (2010). Subsequently athletes who've tested positive for that stimulant post 2010 have been banned by WADA (Amantle Montsho for example). The JADCO provisional ban does stay on your record though so if Blake were to test positive for anything now he will be banned for a minimum of 4 years. PS - I am not British.
lenovo1983 wrote:
Americans are really vulgar idiots when it comes to sports. Crowds chanting USA, USA, USA like a bunch of inbred idiots just isn't likeable.
British fans like an underdog and seeing a small island like Jamaica wipe the floor with your sprinters whilst you have whined and whined over they years has been a joy to watch. Having that spoiled by a two time drug brash drug cheat, in what is seen as the main event of the championship, by a man who miraculously gets faster as he gets older than he ever was with steroids isn't going to go down well.
As previously stated Dwain Chambers was also booed by British crowds and the BBC made a scape goat of him much worse than they have with Gatlin.
Ever been to a football match in Liverpool there lenovo dude?
You have no idea just how bad hooligans at soccer games are lenovo dude.
Make the Dawg pound in Cleveland or the even Philly Eagles fans seem demure. Drunken Brit fans are the biggest d-bags in the world. If they gave medals for it, they would be the gold medal douche-bag winners every time. (Despite their choke prone athletes who can't close a race, i.e. Muir, the Brits know how to bring out the douche-baggery out at the finish, every time)
Want to know what a farce the concept of clean British is? Miraculous Brits?
Start with Lord Coe, blood doper. Or Brad Wiggins, EPO, CERA, Blood doper (Team Sky's pharmacopia program eclipses US Postal, and Wiggins Watt/Kg shames even Hamilton and Armstrong.....Froome?? Technically he's Kenyan so we won't go there!) 100 meter spritners?? Linford Christie. Oh yeah, Fancy Bears seemed to reveal WADA data stating Farah as "likely doping".
British fans, while filling the seats for T&F, forever made an embarrassment out of the World Championships by booing Gatlin. Because of that, I was more than happy to see Semenya blow by a crying Muir for the podium. Simpson taking silver was just as sweet as Gold watching her make make Hassan and Muir look silly. Always a Simpson fan, now even a Semenya fan for knocking Muir off. Never, ever a British fan again....
Cheers!
Calm down. You sound like a raging xenophobe.
"You have no idea just how bad hooligans at soccer games are lenovo dude."
Turkish and Russian fans make British look like etiquette teachers you idiot, they throw bananas at african players, make Nazi salutes. The british soccer fans are nowhere near the level of barbarism in continental/eastern europe.
"Team Sky's pharmacopia program eclipses US Postal, and Wiggins Watt/Kg shames even Hamilton and Armstrong" This is utter BS, they definitely operate in the grey zone of legality but US Postal was a multi tiered drug operation.
Gatlins win was bad for the sport, the booing was a bit immature for sure but i dont think anyone is going to cry when Gatlin retires, he wont be remembered as one of the great champions.
Zlatan wrote:
There are 60000 people in the stadium. Most of them are casuals who couldn't name more than a dozen athletes at the Championship.
Now you're really going to get those Brits mad. 😄 I heard one of British announcers the other day throw out all kinds of accolades about how the British fans in the stadium are the most knowledgeable & astute fans in all of T&F. Obviously, you see different.[/quote]
[quote]Carnatine Kid wrote:
I met Gatlin once. I spoke with him for a bit about training for speed. I'm a distance runner and coach. He seemed to really enjoy the discussion. I thought he was a good guy... this was before all the "drug issues". [quote]somebloke wrote:Kinda like Lance Armstrong nowadays?
1776 wrote:
Sugar Balls wrote:Essentially it's because Britain gave Jamaica their independence while the USA took theirs.
This, America deserves to collapse for leaving the crown
BREXIT 1776 !!!
Most people don't know.Blake was banned.
Hardly surprising seen as it was only for 3 months.
Why do Americans on letsrun support dopers as long as they are American?
Brit guy wrote:
Because Blake was cleared by WADA, the ban was enforced to set an example/ as a deterrent/as a sacrifice. Was pre everyone getting popped for Jackd3D.
Correct. Blake was given a symbolic slap on the wrist for methylhexaneamine, a stimulant that was not banned when he took it. WADA didn't care but JADCO wanted to look good. Now give the Brits credit for knowing more than you.
Besides this, Gatlin has been in the mix for the gold the past few years, and Blake has not. A doper winning gold is not good. What if Ben Johnson had come back and won gold? He would have been booed, loudly. EVEN AT HISTORIC HAYWARD FIELD where nobody is EVER booed.
Copping an attitude about Gatlin being booed makes the USA look bad. People don't like dopers.
It's not an anti-American thing it's a getting CAUGHT using STEROIDS thing.
Chambers was treated much the same by us Brits and the BBC. Difference is:
a) he never won a global title
b) he partially (not totally) redeemed himself in the publics eyes by fessing up to what he did unlike Gatlin who STILL denies responsibility and whines on about the unfairness of his first conviction to deflect from the reality of his second.
He had no Substances banned by WADA in his system, so there was literally no case to answer, it was THIS that the JADCO panel appealed, don't make out they 'Cleared' him like they were just clearing their athletes, there was nothing to ban him for, then they came back with the similar substance reasoning and banned him anyway. If they were hiding things they could've kept the whole thing quiet as the adverse findings weren't anything banned.
After this that Stimulant was added to the WADA list banned and a whole Bunch of Rugby League and other power sport athletes got banned.
Futher more, Blake actually found out about his failed test During a Grand Prix in Britain, actually Live on TV being interviewed, so to say British fans would be unaware of this whole thing would be incorrect.
You are right about the 2 year ban if it would've happened today, but not then, wasn't on the list.