Doping in other sports
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Rather poor choice of words:
Blood doping: Is fixing athletics Lord Coe's greatest challenge?
Race fixing as well as doping?
MacB
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pretty standard template these days for responding to dodginess seeing the light of day....doesn't matter if it's sport, business, politics - for your bingo cards:-
the odd bad apple
historical problems but clean as a clean thing now
dodgy foreigners
dodgy doctors
witch hunt
ushering in an era of full transparency
scientists/experts with a grudge doing dodgy analysis to damage a sport/organisation
a full and frank inquiry - expect 'frank' to go suddenly silent when results time comes around
lessons learned
new super duper checks and balances
let's put the bad old days behind us - even if they were only last week
a tough crackdown with serious sanctions...unless of course.......
implausible deniability - the head honchos really knew nothing and hadn't even heard any rumours despite a lifetime involvement
attack the messengers
Fell free to add to the bingo card, I think house may already have been called on the above list
the odd bad apple
historical problems but clean as a clean thing now
dodgy foreigners
dodgy doctors
witch hunt
ushering in an era of full transparency
scientists/experts with a grudge doing dodgy analysis to damage a sport/organisation
a full and frank inquiry - expect 'frank' to go suddenly silent when results time comes around
lessons learned
new super duper checks and balances
let's put the bad old days behind us - even if they were only last week
a tough crackdown with serious sanctions...unless of course.......
implausible deniability - the head honchos really knew nothing and hadn't even heard any rumours despite a lifetime involvement
attack the messengers
Fell free to add to the bingo card, I think house may already have been called on the above list
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Guru
Respect the athletes:
"Gatlin is eligible to compete and he should be respected for the fact that he is eligible to compete" - Lord Coe.
"Gatlin is eligible to compete and he should be respected for the fact that he is eligible to compete" - Lord Coe.
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Guru
Just read that there will be 50 convicted dopers at the World Athletics Championships.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Which just goes to show how effective the IAAf is at catching and convicting dopers
All must be well
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
The IAAF say 'look - we are doing something, honest guv - we've stripped the medal from someone you've never heard of'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33964788
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33964788
that process started over 18months ago - only now appeared after the CAS decision went IAAF's way against home association Turkey who didn't impose a ban - the seeming lack of action seems to be that its all very well saying the results are "abnormal" but proving it beyond doubt at CAS (or for that matter in a German court it would seem) is another matter - note the use of a "negotiated" settlement at CAS - plus the reticence of the home associations to implement ban (seen that in another sport)
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Guru
Hands up if you think Paula Radcliffe sounds convincing?
"People don't understand it, it's very complicated..."
Really? Really?
"People don't understand it, it's very complicated..."
Really? Really?
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Guru
"I will always defend the probity and integrity of my sport" - yes Seb, we know that. As do many "so called" journalists and "so called" scientists. You utter twat.
I don't have any view one way or the other on this particular case but IMHO that statement was very clumsy / lacked credibility (and to be fair, I have no idea howthe interview was edited etc), however, if she had said "Piss off. It's my data and I choose not to release it", I would have had a more sympathetic view than I do now..
I don't think the release of the data is the issue; the claim that "People don't understand it, it's very complicated..." is the point of contention for me. For sure the nutters in the Clinic will make something out of nothing but there are plenty of independent experts who could add value, given access to the data (of any athlete).
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Probably not many independent experts - they all have got a hand in the fire - either for a world/national body or one or other side of the table at CAS - and it would seem that there there are as many different interpretations depending on which side of the fire you are sitting