Why is Deanouk so dumb? wrote:
Deanouk wrote:Yeah, it really makes sense for US officials to conveniently discard doping samples to protect a U.K. Athlete!?
More like they were protecting their own athletes from being discredited. Remember the dozens of positive results that were never declared during the US trials that year? Conveniently that info only emerged decades later.
Hey, dumbo, those weren't US officials covering up the 84 games doping test results. It was a European aristocrat with IOC who "lost" the doping report. Hey Deano, most towns and cities have adult remedial schools where people like you can go to learn how to read. Villages may not have them so perhaps you don't have access to one.
Idiot. The names of 9 sportsmen/women who tested positive for their A samples on the last 2 days of competition in LA 84 were/are known to the director of the UCLA facility that handled the Olympic drug testing, Don Catlin.
They would also be known to his associates at the UCLA laboratory.
According to The TImes/BBC investigation in 1994, the European aristocrat you mention, Prince Alexandre DeMerode, president of the IOC medical commission, actually refused to be part of a cover up allegedly involving Samaranch and American executive, Peter Uebberoth, president of the L.A. Olympic Organizing Committee.
Harry Usher, who was vice president of the L.A. Olympic Organizing Committee, also dismissed the allegations.
The Times wrote, "Without DeMerode's cooperation, it was more difficult because the Belgian prince was one of the few officials who had access to the athletes' names and corresponding code of their urinalysis.
The UCLA laboratory sent its coded results to DeMerode, who connected the names and informed the athletes and their coaches of the positives.
In the case of the nine positives, DeMerode never got the chance.....someone broke into his hotel room, stole the data and shredded it."
So there were various individuals, including the 2 leading US executives heading up the LAOOC, that were involved and the aristocrat was the one person refusing to cover up.
USADA were entirely responsible for covering up dozens of positive US drug tests in the months leading up to the LA OLympics, choosing to warn the athletes involved to 'clean their act up'. So don't make out there were no US officials involved in covering up drug positives before, during and after the LA OLympics.