“I take offence to, with all respect, Lord Coe,†he told the BBC.
“I don’t condone doping but Justin Gatlin is not the poster child for it.
“He’s done his time, he plays by the rules, the IAAF reinstated him. They said if you come back we should accept that.
“So to put a narrative out that it’s just Justin Gatlin and he’s the bad guy, it’s really not fair.
“It’s inhumane. It’s unsportsmanlike.â€
All this support for a drugs cheat because he wins the USA medals is nauseating.
Get a clue Renaldo it's the fans who hate dopers, not doper Coe himself. Boooo Skeets.
The fans are supporting a drug cheat because they think his feelings may be hurt.
Only the British fans with a moral compass.
All He Does Is Win wrote:
All this support for a drugs cheat because he wins the USA medals is nauseating.
^This.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Get a clue Renaldo it's the fans who hate dopers, not doper Coe himself. Boooo Skeets.
^And this.
Double drug cheat, sued against his bans, got them both reduced by 50%, showed no regrets whatsoever, and comes back running the same times as before. Oh boy.
The first "doping offense" was ridiculous. But it expanded Gatlin's reserves of PURE HATE to unimaginable levels. 16 years later he emptied those reserves on Coe and the poofters.
h@ters > hypocrites wrote:
The first "doping offense" was ridiculous. But it expanded Gatlin's reserves of PURE HATE to unimaginable levels. 16 years later he emptied those reserves on Coe and the poofters.
Quite.
Coe is an absolute hypocrite and has no leg to stand on speaking in such a way. Many more severe dopers have been punished less (e.g. Blake, Chambers), and continue to get wrist-slaps under Coe's tenure. He only speaks up when it is politically expedient to do so.
Gatlin comes back and wins, as the rules of the sport allow him to, and Coe is taking pathetic potshots at an athlete for his own PR gains.
What does Coe have to say about Trevor Graham, who coached Gatlin and others to dope, and who is still suckling up to the Nike teet? That's right, nothing, because he Coe is on the Nike payroll.
Totally agree with the agent. It was unclassy and quite, I agree, inhumane. This is the moment Justin has worked all his life for, this wasn't the moment for this statement to tarnish a special moment. The time for the lifetime ban arguments was ten years ago, and that was settled.
Coe's done nothing whatsoever to Gatlin. The pain is all self-inflicted.
Wrong. There are several athletes there who have served bans, but only Justin got booed. The fans have been coached by media to focus it all on Gatlin. If they truly hated dopers, they'd be booing everybody who has a violation.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Get a clue Renaldo it's the fans who hate dopers, not doper Coe himself. Boooo Skeets.
trails for life wrote:
Wrong. There are several athletes there who have served bans, but only Justin got booed. The fans have been coached by media to focus it all on Gatlin. If they truly hated dopers, they'd be booing everybody who has a violation.
Bad Wigins wrote:Get a clue Renaldo it's the fans who hate dopers, not doper Coe himself. Boooo Skeets.
They don't know. They are casuals who go because it's an event.
Yeah, how dare Gatlin come back and beat the obviously-clean and totally not-a-doper fastest man of all time (faster than all the dopers) and don't forget highly-marketable Usain Bolt. I wish they'd just declare the most marketable athlete the winner of every final. Why even run the races at all?
Wait a minute. ¿Wasn't Seb Coe the winner of 1500m olympic final in Los Angeles 1984?
It was in LA 84' games when several positive results for many events (in the final days of the games) were destroyed. The names weren't matched with the samples, but is a fact that were dozen of positives from events in the final days. the 1500m final was in August 11th. The games finished in August 12th. And testing was done only to the best placed athletes in each event.
"...Following the Los Angeles Games of 1984, a number of positive tests had failed to result in official action; the relevant laboratory papers were allegedly shredded after disappearing from de Mérode's hotel. Suspicion inevitably fell on the chairman, but Don Catlin, head of the UCLA laboratory responsible for testing, said that de Mérode "never did anything to hide or obfuscate any test results". Fifteen years later the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency diminished the significance of de Mérode's position. But he sat on its board and served on the Reform Commission appointed to propose changes to the constitution in the aftermath of the voting corruption scandal surrounding Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games..."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1414375/Prince-Alexandre-de-Merode.html
Furthermore, Coe had glandular toxoplasmosis...
rupp-certified saladbra wrote:
[quote]h@ters > hypocrites wrote:
Many more severe dopers have been punished less (e.g. Blake, Chambers), and continue to get wrist-slaps under Coe's tenure. He only speaks up when it is politically expedient to do so.
You forgot to mention other blatant cheaters with less than a wrist slap: Ajee WIlson and Gil Roberts. America is as dirty as Kenya or Russia or Ethiopia or Jamaica. GB probably isn't much better, but they seem to have better testing standards and less bans than the US.
ezby wrote:
rupp-certified saladbra wrote:[quote]h@ters > hypocrites wrote:
Many more severe dopers have been punished less (e.g. Blake, Chambers), and continue to get wrist-slaps under Coe's tenure. He only speaks up when it is politically expedient to do so.
You forgot to mention other blatant cheaters with less than a wrist slap: Ajee WIlson and Gil Roberts. America is as dirty as Kenya or Russia or Ethiopia or Jamaica. GB probably isn't much better, but they seem to have better testing standards and less bans than the US.
Thank goodness Sir Mo is as clean as clean can be.
rupp-certified saladbra wrote:
h@ters > hypocrites wrote:The first "doping offense" was ridiculous. But it expanded Gatlin's reserves of PURE HATE to unimaginable levels. 16 years later he emptied those reserves on Coe and the poofters.
Quite.
Coe is an absolute hypocrite and has no leg to stand on speaking in such a way. Many more severe dopers have been punished less (e.g. Blake, Chambers), and continue to get wrist-slaps under Coe's tenure. He only speaks up when it is politically expedient to do so.
Gatlin comes back and wins, as the rules of the sport allow him to, and Coe is taking pathetic potshots at an athlete for his own PR gains.
What does Coe have to say about Trevor Graham, who coached Gatlin and others to dope, and who is still suckling up to the Nike teet? That's right, nothing, because he Coe is on the Nike payroll.
That's the first I've heard about Graham still getting funding from Nike. Source?
Dkny64 wrote:
rupp-certified saladbra wrote:Quite.
Coe is an absolute hypocrite and has no leg to stand on speaking in such a way. Many more severe dopers have been punished less (e.g. Blake, Chambers), and continue to get wrist-slaps under Coe's tenure. He only speaks up when it is politically expedient to do so.
Gatlin comes back and wins, as the rules of the sport allow him to, and Coe is taking pathetic potshots at an athlete for his own PR gains.
What does Coe have to say about Trevor Graham, who coached Gatlin and others to dope, and who is still suckling up to the Nike teet? That's right, nothing, because he Coe is on the Nike payroll.
That's the first I've heard about Graham still getting funding from Nike. Source?
I'm also wondering...source? Granted, the Nike teat is a large one (I'm thinking Double D) but is he in fact on it?
Coe, Cram, Farah, and Radcliffe have more drugs in them than the 1988 Oakland Athletics. The 4 of them, Michael Johnson, Alberto, and Justin should do a live tv broadcast with polygraph testing and put $1 million each on themselves passing.
If I were Gatlin I'd hire a private investigation team to get the dirt on Coe. You know the guy was on the junk and some of his peers must be willing to talk.
Not sure about the Graham comment, but totally agree with the rest.
Coe is just a political hack and a dull bulb to boot. Spineless and some questions about his past.
Skeets is right and the first offense was unfair and he's paid dearly for the second (would be nice if he fessed up for it, but he does use it as a teaching moment in clinics). If he meets the rules of the sport then Coe in his role has no right to make such statements.