rekrunner wrote:
I think you are confused as to what evidence is available to the IAAF.
Several corrections are in order:
"Her training group" was not caught red-handed. Only the Saudi-physio Ouarid Mounir and athlete Musaeb Balla were caught in possession of EPO. With respect to having enough evidence, Aden was caught with injectable vitamins, and Dibaba was tested and tested negative.
This was the status pretty much from Day 1, and little has changed since then, except the folklore retelling of the bust over the years.
The IAAF, rather than doing "absolutely nothing", have launched proceedings and appeals against Balla, and, I guess due to general public apathy in real world doping cases at letsrun, it went largely unnoticed that CAS have already found him guilty back in June, and handed Balla a 4-year ban.
It appears to date, by all public accounts, and implicitly by lack of IAAF action, that the IAAF does not have enough evidence to ban Dibaba, Aden, and all of his training group for life, but did have enough evidence to sanction Balla for 4 years.
If you want to talk about "effective bans", it seems Aden's status and career as a coach, has been severely hampered by the Sabadell bust, despite no criminal finding connected to providing WADA-banned substances to any athletes, and despite a lack of any provisional suspension or ban from the IAAF. Dibaba has similarly been vocally shunned by her competitors.
doping watcher wrote:
Because her training group in Spain were caught red handed with a huge arsenal of PEDs (EPO, steroids, the works) at the hotel she was staying at.
Cyclling is a dirty sport and yet the Festina team were kicked out of the 1998 Tour de France when their physio was caught with a load of PEDs in the trunk of his car - and he was several hundred miles away from the Festina team bike riders at the time.
In comparison the IAAF had enough evidence to effectively ban Dibaba, Aden, and all of his training group for life and their response was to do absolutely nothing and demonstrate their total apathy to doping in elite track and field.