Over/Under on number of doping questions hurled at Paula = 17.5
Hmmmm... So many questions to ask Paula, it's hard to know where to start.
We need a short list of good questions to ask her about doping, without "asking her about doping."
Here's a bad example: How did you make the time to learn so much about endurance sports and blood values?
How much dope was she on?
fartleks and bagels wrote:
How much dope was she on?
None. She never tested positive.
One bag or two?
How many hours per day does Gary spend on LRC?
Questions submitted in advance , vetted, then on facebook live answering these questions. So no live interaction , with live questions.
Do any of them read letsrun?
Montreal 6 wrote:
Questions submitted in advance , vetted, then on facebook live answering these questions. So no live interaction , with live questions.
Insert 8-bit fail music here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=votpmwC25EkIs anybody still on Facebook?
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
One bag or two?
It turns out that the questions should be:
Hey Ms. Paula "Pantani" Radcliffe!...and Gary!...and Mo!
1) Was it 2 or 3 bags of blood ... that was used as medical treatment for your medical condition of... anemia... in 2003???
2) What did you use to treat your long history of anemia...which dates back to the year 1992 just before winning the 1992 World Junior Cross Country Championships...and destroying Wang Junxia from CHINA at the same time???
3) What did you use to as treatment of your medical condition of anemia to increase your hemoglobin level to a WAY ABOVE NORMAL RANGE (12.0 g/dL to 15.0 g/dL for females) hemoglobin level of 16.2 g/dL (which would also be over the cutoff level of 16.0 g/dL that was used in Cross Country Skiing competitions by the FSI to BAN FEMALE ATHLETES FROM COMPETITION???
Thanks a lot.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/11/mo-farah-paula-radcliffe-blood-datahttp://www.letsrun.com/2003/escortingpaula.phphttp://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/11/dr-gabriele-rosa-talks-turning-stanley-biwott-jemima-sumgong-marathon-stars-doping-kenya/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-5060239/Jemima-Sumgong-handed-four-year-doping-ban.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/10/paula-radcliffe-release-blood-test-bordering-abusehttps://news.sky.com/story/radcliffe-give-athletes-lie-detector-tests-10340201"Hi Paula I'm a big fan - how do I get started with PED's? Is there a good one to start with?"
LetsRun.com wrote:
Details here:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/03/female-distance-legends-including-paula-radcliffe-sonia-osullivan-rosa-mota-will-answer-questions-live-saturday-6-et-11-cet/
Question for Paula:
Long time fan of running here, first time caller I am a YUUuUGe fan.
[pause for bashful smiles]
Did you dope?
Hey ladies , I' m looking to go sub 21 in the 5 k in the next year or two - do you know where I can purchase the Nike Vaporfy 4% ?
Question for Lornah Kiplagat (of the Netherlands)???:
Was Jos Hermens your manager when you set the World Record in the Half-Marathon???
Furious reactions have greeted an expose by German television ARD and The Sunday Times alleging doping in the country.
On Sunday, United Kingdom based Sunday Times and German television ARD ran a shocking documentary on doping scandals at the elite training camps.
They alleged that packets of performance-enhancing substance erythropoietin (EPO) were discarded in the centre’s communal kitchen at the High Altitude Training Centre (HATC) in Iten owned by Dutchman Pieter Langerhorst and his wife Lornah Kiplagat, the former world 21km record holder.
They also claimed to have discovered an EPO syringe in a rubbish bin just outside HATC.
While speaking in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Langerhorst denied the allegations and said, “we do everything possible to ensure the premises at the centre are free of drugs.”
Double Olympic and four-time world champion Mo Farah, world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe are among top British athletes that train at the camp.
The documentary mentioned two doctors – Samson K Limo and Ken Kipchumba Limo – from Eldoret’s St Luke’s Orthopaedic and Trauma Hospital as having administered doping for some Kenyan and British athletes.
But the hospital’s management, however, refuted the claims.
Prof Simeon Mining, the hospital’s chairman of board of directors, said they were dismayed with the media reports linking them to doping.
It is just a coincidence.
...Meanwhile the IAAF, athletics governing body, has rejected applications from 135 Russian athletes to compete in Rio – with only the long jumper Darya Klishina, who trains abroad, being allowed to compete at the Olympics under a neutral flag.
The decision was greeted with anger in Moscow, with Alexandra Brilliantova, the head of the legal department at the Russian Olympic Committee, confirming they would fighting the decision at the court of arbitration for sport.
“The refusals were received by everyone, except for Klishina,” she said.
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Why was Ms. Klishina the only Russian Track and Field athlete who was given an invitation to be at the Rio Summer Olympics???
Answer:
1) I don't care why Ms. Klishina was given an invitation to be at the Rio Summer Olympics.
It was an exactly correct decision.
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
How many hours per day does Gary spend on LRC?
Good question, but he certainly makes the rounds.
Questions:
1) Did you ever train with Leonid Shvetsov (Russia) when you were training in Albuquerque before your World Record 2:15:25 marathon in 2003...or before your win at the 2003 World Half-Marathon Championships...when your hemoglobin level increased by 2.8 g/dL (21.88%) from 12.8 g/dL to an above normal range value of 15.6 g/dL in only 2 days...between Oct. 2 and Oct. 4, 2003???
2) Why did you leave out the massive increase in your hemoglobin levels in only 2 days in your description of the 2003 Half-Marathon race from your autobiography....even though you did mention that you had a LOW hemoglobin level coming into the Half-Marathon World Championship race where you destroyed the world(...with your history of anemia...and asthma)???
3) Did Lornah and Pieter ever train in Albuquerque with Gabriele Szabo???
4) Did Paula ever train with Ms. Szabo in Font-Romeu???
Ms. Paula "Pantani" Radcliffeiani trained in Albuquerque, New Mexico before her 2:15:25 WR marathon...with no blood test results ever released from the time period around that "special" race in London.
Ms. Radcliffe said that she would be happy to release her blood test results from around that time period of her WR marathon to PROVE with FULL TRANSPARENCY that she ran a CLEAN marathon WR...but then Ms Paula "Pantani" Radcliffe decided to change her mind about that really stupid idea.
No one can see the blood test results for Ms. Paula 'Pantani' Radcliffe from the 2:15:25 marathon at London in the year 2003.
‘How can anyone include Leonid's good name to doping?’ asks Ray de Vries in a media release put out by the local agent as spokesman for two time Comrades winner, Russian Leonid Shvetsov, who this week was alleged to be both a supplier and user of banned performance enhancing substances since the mid 1990’s.
Britain’s Peter Whitehead, Canadian Bruce Raymar, and ex-South African and 1993 world marathon champion Mark Plaatjies are among the top international athletes to have supported the contentions made by Belgian born Eddy Hellebuycks who was central figure in the elite training group in Albuquerque during the build up to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Others in that group included south Africans Gert Thys and Joshua Thugwane... who went on to win the 1996 Olympic Marathon Gold medal.
Gert This won the Cape Town city marathon in September and was second in Beijing last year. He has just returned to the sport...after having completed a two year DOPING BAN.
De Vries also said that that some well- known athletes, including a well-known South African Comrades winner who tested positive, have stayed at the training camp.
Plaatjies said “Everybody in the sport knew about Leonid. On the circuit, he always had the reputation as a doper. That’s what Leonid did.”
Whitehead didn’t mince his words “Leonid wasn’t clean, and never had been in my book. His times in training didn’t come close to matching up with his times in races.”
Raymer’s statement appears damning in the detail. “Leonid quite openly kept a stockpile of EPO in his refrigerator, behind the milk and orange juice,” reported the Canadian. “He approached me with the offer to sell me some EPO. He told me how easy it was to inject. He quoted me a price for one cycle—$400. I told him no thanks, and he came back to me with an offer of $350. He came back to me several times, reducing the price to $300. It was kind of bizarre. Leonid is a big, menacing guy. I almost wanted to buy some EPO just to get him off my back.”
When Raymer continued to decline Shvetsov’s sales pitch for EPO, he says, the Russian then offered to sell him the anabolic agent clenbuterol, which is also on the list of banned substances. “Leonid was pretty brash about drugs,” Raymer continues. “His room was like a pharmacy full of banned drugs. Besides the EPO and clenbuterol, I also saw Winstrol [the brand name for the anabolic steroid stanozolol] and Anavar [the brand name for the steroid oxandrolone].”
Eddy Hellebuycks was BANNED FOR A POSITIVE OOC EPO TEST and initiated the exposure during an interview for an American running magazine, which was published in mid October. (The female US marathon runner Deeja Younquist was also BANNED FOR A POSITIVE OOC EPO TEST just before the US Olympic marathon trials).
Erythropoietin DOPING BAN Eddy Hellebuycks 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon 8th place
Erythropoietin DOPING BAN Deeja Youngquist 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials- Women’s Marathon 8th place
“Leonid is an Olympian and has won marathons and ultra marathons worldwide; he has won Comrades Marathon twice and placed a number of times. He has a number of race records around the world. He has been tested 50 times or more and has never been tested positive. Now an athlete who has admitted to doping names Leonid as the bad guy – what a load of crap…..” wrote de Vries in his statement.
At the time of writing there had been no official word from World Anti Doping Association WADA and so it would appear that Shvetsov, who retired from competition in 2009, is unlikely to be charged or face penalty.
"It's a lot better than coming all the way from Europe. I like the quietness, and the altitude, of course. It's a nice place to train."
-2007 World Cross Country Champion Lornah Kiplagat
"On Sunday mornings, you see hundreds and hundreds of people out running. If we go to a local Starbucks, people ask, 'Are you guys runners?' Everybody understands running, and I think that helps a lot."
-High Altitude Training Camp (Kenya) Co-Owner Pieter Langerhorst
"The air is cleaner and the scenery and running is beautiful and motivating, as well as tough. The weather is also better here (than in England)...it's nice to be able to train in t-shirt and shorts and dry sunshine."
-World Marathon Record Holder Paula Radcliffe
Who was training in Albuquerque at the same time when Leonid Shvetsov was training in Albuquerque, New Mexico???
It turns out that there were a few Olympic medalists and World Record holders training in Albuquerque at the same time.
For example:
NOUREDDINE MORCELI, Algeria
KHALID SKAH, Morocco
GABRIELA SZABO, Romania
JOSIAH THUGWANE, South Africa (1996 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist)
GERT THYS, South Africa (BANNED FOR DOPING)
EDDY HELLEBUYCKS (BANNED FOR DOPING WITH EPO in OOC test before the 2004 Olympic Marathon trials)
PAULA RADCLIFFE (2:15:25 WR marathon after her TRAINING BUILD-UP WITH A "SPECIAL BLOCK" in Albuquerque before the 2003 London marathon)
LORNAH KIPLAGAT (of The Netherlands, co-owner of the HATC in Kenya where EPO was found in the trash, former WR holder in the Half-Marathon)
DEEJA YOUNGQUIST (BANNED FOR DOPING WITH EPO in OOC test before 2004 Olympic Marathon trials)
ANDREW BEGLEY, Topeka, Ind.
AMY YODER BEGLEY, Kendallville, Ind.(She later decided to transport a package of testosterone from Dr. Jeffrey Brown in Texas to Coach Alberto Salazar in Oregon)
RACHAEL DOBBS, Albuquerque
ELVA DRYER, Albuquerque
LAUREN FLESHMAN, Stanford, Calif.
BOB KENNEDY, Indianapolis
SIMON SAWE, Santa Fe (Kenya)
MICHAEL STEMBER, Fair Oaks, Calif.
JANET TRUJILLO, Albuquerque
ALAN WEBB (a 55% hematocrit level has been talked about for Mr. Webb) Fairfax, Va.
BENOIT ZWIERZCHIEWSKI, France
...and MEMBERS OF the TURKISH National Team
(It's just a coincidence.)
http://i4.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article6915888.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/PaulaMain.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/04/12/005A4F6F00000258-3303406-image-a-35_1446640504599.jpg
Thanks a lot for the answers to my questions!