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thom

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I think I heard Seb Coe on the Today program this morning complaining that Athletics was being singled out unfairly for having a drugs program.
edit : i meant problem, not program….
 
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smutchin

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The Red Enclave
I think I heard Seb Coe on the Today program this morning complaining that Athletics was being singled out unfairly for having a drugs program...

Yes. He also came out with the immortal - and strangely familiar - line that it's not fair to suspect Usain Bolt because he's "the world's most tested athlete".

I always was more of an Ovett fan.
 

Crankarm

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Nr Cambridge
The Tyson quote about a fake body part potentially says a lot more about useless procedures at the testing (or unwillingness to find a problem) than anything else. He's quoting a test in Glasgow where his false organ was used. Now either he is being very economical with the facts, or has a poor memory, or the boxing authorities were relaxed, to say the least, in their approach to finding anything wrong. If I recall correctly, when you are tested it's stripped from knees to shoulders, which does not leave mush chance of using a fake organ, provided of course the procedure is followed and the tester is watching. All very odd, isn't it?

Of course he could be asked to prove it wasn't fake ....................
 

oldroadman

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Ubique
Hmmm...IOC likely to let all the results and names go public when they have a massive world wide business (and gravy train) to consider? Maybe? Are Hein and Pat McQ not IOC members, along with 100+ others who have a vested interest in keeping the Olympics as high profile - in the right way - as possible?
Oh me of little faith!
 
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User169

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Hmmm...IOC likely to let all the results and names go public when they have a massive world wide business (and gravy train) to consider? Maybe? Are Hein and Pat McQ not IOC members, along with 100+ others who have a vested interest in keeping the Olympics as high profile - in the right way - as possible?
Oh me of little faith!

Just to clarify, McQuaid isn't an IOC member. Verbruggen is an Honorary Member, so has no voting rights.
 

thom

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The Borough
Hmmm...IOC likely to let all the results and names go public when they have a massive world wide business (and gravy train) to consider? Maybe? Are Hein and Pat McQ not IOC members, along with 100+ others who have a vested interest in keeping the Olympics as high profile - in the right way - as possible?
Oh me of little faith!
I thought that WADA oversaw all the Olympic testing. If this gets brushed under the carpet then that itself would be a bigger scandal than the doping problem. WADA & the Olympics would be seriously badly damaged.
 

oldroadman

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Ubique

I like how the authorites think that a "public warning" (what's that??) is sufficient warning for taking a banned diuretic. That's doping, or possibly masking something "heavier". Two years off please and no excuses. If it's correct for cycling....We may have had and still have a (hopefully) dimishing problem, but at least it's acknowledged, unlike the head in the sand attitude of some sports and countries. Jamaica and Kenya in particular (plus maybe other african countries) are so lacking in any resolve they are a joke. Or would be if they were not winning so much, or in Africa, hosting training trips for so many athletes from other countries. This is going the way of people having to prove they are clean, not the other way round. So now they will know just how clean riders feel!
 
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