Michelle V wrote:
they had to have tested someone's else's urine .
The Russians had disappearing positives .
What about disappearing negatives .
Someone thought the means justified the end but justice does not work like that .
First, it is important to understand this is arbitration, a non-judicial process. There is no justice.
Second, the system is filled with mile-wide gaps once the sample is shipped, all the way into the federation. Martial Saugy being an example. The federation called Martial their fixer. The federation had a positive they couldn't bury they would send it to Martial. Poof! Non-positive 'lab measuring errors..'
Russian disapppearing positives were partially accomplished with swapped samples.
Exthrower is not wrong. The guy that took his place was likely doping too.
This would not be the first athlete claiming samples were swapped. I believe there was a Jamaican guy going to college in the U.s. who demanded genetic testing on the positive sample and was denied.
Threads on these cases are great for correcting the widespread misconceptions the IOC federations spread about the system.