boosted testers wrote:
They did that to Jama Aden, and this resulted in a monster drugs bust in 2016 in Spain to the extent that it was obvious that basically all of his athletes were doping given the quantitities of EPO and steroids that were found. However the sport's authorities basically did NOTHING. All of Aden's athletes were allowed to continue competing including the Dibaba sisters (who were present at the hotel of the monster bust). Cycling gets a bad rap for drug abuse but when the Festina team car was found by the police with an arsenal of EPO and steroids in its trunk at the 1998 Tour de France the Festina team was banned from the Tour; the authorities did not mess around trying to see who tested positive as they knew the testing system was inadequate.
Not exactly NOTHING.
The IAAF sanctioned Musaeb Balla for 4 years, a sanction upheld by CAS.
During the bust, the IAAF tested all of the athletes on the spot. As all tests were NEGATIVE, the authorities could do NOTHING more.
Jama Aden and Ouarid Mounir are currently being tried in the Spanish courts. The IAAF is likely waiting the verdict, and any evidence, before charging them further, so as not to interfere with a criminal trial.
In cycling, the Festina team were raided by the French police, under suspicion of violating French law. The ASO is not the cycling "authorities" per se, but the Tour de France owner and organizer. Participation in the Tour de France is by invitation, and ASO has the power to invite, or uninvite teams as they wish. The REAL cycling and doping authority, the UCI, did NOTHING for years, thus becoming the first major target of the newly formed WADA, led by Dick Pound.