COLEMAN WILL COMPETE AT WORLDS (Even though he had 3 whereabout failures in the last year)

US anti doping drops the Coleman case. No way can US compete at worlds. This is a blatant cheat attempt. Throw the US out.

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Clown show!

Clown show!

COOLMAN wrote:

the World Anti-Doping Agency's interpretation of the rule backdated his first failure to April 1, 2018, instead of the date it actually occurred, June 6, 2018

I am glad that Doping Agencies are sufficiently flexible with Calendars and back-dating to allow USA top athletes to compete. This is fighting for clean sport like never before.

Might makes wrong again.

hey now...most americans aren't happy about this either

Actually occurrence is no obstacle wrote:

COOLMAN wrote:

the World Anti-Doping Agency's interpretation of the rule backdated his first failure to April 1, 2018, instead of the date it actually occurred, June 6, 2018

I am glad that Doping Agencies are sufficiently flexible with Calendars and back-dating to allow USA top athletes to compete. This is fighting for clean sport like never before.

Interpretation: Coe/IAAF has friends in WADA, (but not so much in USADA). They/IAAF need CC to run to make Doha/2020 interesting for casual fans.

Rules. Ha! Pbbbbbt. Amirite?

This is great news, now about that 4x1.

Rodgers...Gatlin...CC....Lyles

Sprintgeezer wrote:

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Plus, the "12 months" limitation is clearly bigoted against Muslims who follow a lunar calendar.

So... the implication is that he wasn't tested OOC from April 1 2018 until June 6 2018, when the wrong-info for the quarter was finally discovered?

USADA recorded a Filing Failure for Coleman on June 6, 2018, when a DCO attempted to test Coleman and discovered that he had failed to update his Whereabouts Filing to accurately reflect his location.

However, based on a Comment in the ISTI that states that Filing Failures relate back to the first day of the quarter, Coleman contended that his failure to update which was discovered on June 6, 2018, should relate back to April 1, 2018,

At least Coleman knew the technicalities of beating the "anti-doping" system well. That's more can be said for some so-called athletes these days, that fail for whatever reason (then need dodgy excuses). USADA has done well in its educational mission.

I’m glad this got sorted out quickly and wish in the best at Doha. Other than 15 or so people online who see this whole thing as a smoking gun to Coleman being a cheater, the track community will move on and forget it soon enough.

Coleman gets off saying Check the date. What do you expect on APRIL FOOLS DAY DUH!!!!

stupid he missed 3 tests in in 12 months you really should not miss any and the only reasonable is a door bell not working

What’s interesting to me is that back when this all went down, they were arguing about the third missed date. Over and over again all they kept talking about was that third missed date and he was wronged. Isn’t it a little odd that he’s being cleared and they are just calling it a clerical error? Why not just argue that point the entire time?

1) Where is the rule written this way ?

2) Why is the rule written this way?

I can't see someone writing a rule, "oh by the way if you miss a drug test we'll back date it to the 1st day of the quarter?"

But if they did write it this way, why would they?

It makes no sense to have a rule this way.

However, having said that if we have a stupid rule on the books has it ever been enforced the way as written? So

If somone flunked a drug test

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but you really have to miss 3 drug tests in a 9-12 month window to be charged with missing 3 drug tests in a year depending on when you missed the test in the quater?

Coleman missed tests on June 6, 2018, and January 16 and April 26, 2019,

But according to the quarter system these dates count as April 1, 2018, January 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019?

Idiotic on first read, but someone show me the rule and then explain why it's written that way.