curiouscoach wrote:
Is this for real? Is her agent still Hussein Makke?
Makke has been telling race organizers that she was on maternity leave (in truth, she did have a baby while suspended), and it's just incredible how the local press in the markets where she recently ran (Washington, DC; Spokane, WA; San Francisco, CA; and Cleveland, OH) were not even aware that she was a convicted doper. She goes to Freihofer's in June, too (Albany, NY).
Couldn't a race make a rule that athletes with a history of doping convictions, however long ago, aren't allowed to race? It's YOUR race, you can make whatever rules you want. Seems easy enough to me.
bingo!
Believe me, any athlete associated with this bucket of slime is not to be trusted. He's a liar, a cheat and a thief and Machiavellian even by sports-agent standards.
yeah, that's why leonard left him, found out he was skimming much more than his ten % so leonard told him to shove it and moved to germany. i'm sure he's stoked to be raking it in with leghzaoui again. no way that chick is clean, sorry, especially with her association with hussein makke.
Elite Athlete Coordinator wrote:
It is not that difficult.
Most races are open to entries from the public, so you cannot stop someone like Asmae Leghzaoui from entering if she pays her entry fee like everyone else. Then she would be eligible to win prize money like anyone else who is entered (unless it is specified as a separate invitation only race for elites).
HOWEVER, elite athlete coordinators are under no obligation to offer anything else to such an athlete and her agent.
Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable that she is NOT offered:
*a comp'd seeded entry number
* any form of travel assistance, including any air travel
* any form of hotel accomodation
* any form of transportation and meet and greet at the
airport, and same for the return trip
* any invitations to official race functions/parties/dinners
* and it could take a long time to write a check for any
prize money such an athlete might win.
You cannot necessarily deny them entry to the race - BUT you don't have to make it easy for them.
I'm with EAC on this but.......Can/should top athletes have a clause in their race contracts saying they have the right to pull out with out financial penalty if they believe the Race Director did not do his best to keep the playing field level?
Surprised this article isn't a topic of conversation already......
I wonder if all of the attention from
a) four women boycotting tomorrow's Freihofer's Run for Women, and
b) various threads on this message board
encouraged Leghzaoui to take a different, even pro-active approach to explaining herself to the American press? I have to say, I was impressed by the depth of coverage in the WP article; it painted a striking portrait of a woman overcoming adversity, and willing to admit to her mistakes.
Of course, there is a possibly a commercial spin to the appearance of that article. Leghzaoui's bio on Elite Sports Management's website was updated Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:10 PM, coinciding with the publication of the Washington Post article. A nice bit of PR work, kind of like an advertorial.
You are exactly right. It was a PR job. AL and her husband knew exactly what they were doing (and are still doing.) No drug testing at the event will "catch" her.
Suddenly she is so "sorry" for what happened.
Is she sorry she injected herself or is she sorry she was caught??
And Hussein Makke, her agent, who engineered the "advertorial" - if you believe he didn't know anything about her cheating, and that he is against any form of drugs, then I have some swamp land to sell you in Florida.
Anyone who is on the "inside" of the sport sees this publicity stunt for what it is worth.
You are exactly right. It was a PR job. AL and her husband knew exactly what they were doing (and are still doing.) No drug testing at the event will "catch" her.
Suddenly she is so "sorry" for what happened.
Is she sorry she injected herself or is she sorry she was caught??
And Hussein Makke, her agent, who engineered the "advertorial" - if you believe he didn't know anything about her cheating, and that he is against any form of drugs, then I have some swamp land to sell you in Florida.
Anyone who is on the "inside" of the sport sees this publicity stunt for what it is worth.
Exactly, she and her husband were at the Friehofer's press conference yesterday crying crocodile tears about how it only happened once and how sorry they are. You know that Freihofer's will do they best to make sure she doesn't fail any drug test there.
Leghzaoui is a Moroccan. Therefore she needs a visa. To put an end to all the upset she's caused can't her visa be revoked? I would think it would be pretty black and white. She did wrong, she gets kicked out, end of story.
I'm sure when you get a US visa there's something in there that says you're not a criminal, you haven't/won't do anything wrong. She did wrong, it's documented.
As a convicted cheat she looses the privilege of earning a living here.
ISAAC THULE-HOEZIG
I lke how in the WP article, she minimizes her epo use by claiming her 10K record at NY was clean, and portrays the drug use as a brief flirtation. I would feel more sympathy with her acceptance of guilt if she had admitted to the drug use WITHOUT the posititve test. But drug cheats never do this, they have no conscience. "Crocodile Tears" is right, I say lifetime ban on the first offence, and let them find a respectable way to make a living with the rest of us. She had her chance at running professionaly, and couldn't do it without cheating. She learned her lesson all right- use drugs that can escape the testing, there are plenty enough of those to keep a cheat on the roads.
Would Deena Kastor now hold the 8K world record were it not for Leghzaoui's "clean" run at the 2002 Crazy 8's?
she won Freihofer's Run for Women today, too.
yup the cheat IS back....Lance Armstrong..i dont see much fuss about him.
Shouldnt you be just as riled up about Marion and TM competing too?
koech wrote:
yup the cheat IS back....Lance Armstrong..i dont see much fuss about him.
Asmae Leghzaoui tested positive for EPO in 2003. When did Armstrong test positive?
> Elite Sports Management's website was updated Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:10 PM
you've revealed yourself, Judas.
Some of you amaze me. She served her suspension. You clamored for her to say she's sorry...SHE DID in the Washington Post and at Freihofer's. You said she should pay her own way to the race...SHE DID by donating the money she was to have received to the local USATF Association. You wanted her to say she did it....SHE DID in both the Washington Post and at Freihofer's. You want her tested in and out of competition...SHE HAS BEEN, four times out of competition since being suspended and now at two races. She is willing to talk to school kids about not doing what she did. What more do you people want??? I would hope that if any of you ever do anything wrong in your life that there are people out there who will cut you a lot more slack than you have cut her. Be skeptical maybe but be forgiving of others.
Lance just has a better doctor..he's guilty as the rest of the peleton. Everyone else is on drugs but he wins?? yeah right.
MJ and TM havent been busted either..yet they are JUST as guilty. Lets see how many protestors there are at Pre today?? Wonder if Radcliffe will show up with a sign??
If you want to pick on drugs cheats then, pick on ALL of them.
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