Doping in other sports

[albion]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/2...ng-at-the-world-cup-thats-what-fifa-says.html

"FIFA is spending big bucks to ship urine and blood samples from these games 5,600 miles or more to Switzerland to have them tested at an official WADA lab."
It is now 21 years since there was a positive in an international football tournament. They are certainly taking the urine!

Evidence there had it rife in the Spanish 1st and 2nd division. Yet teams everywhere with amazing fitness have always looked suspect.

 

[smutchin]

USA disqualified from the 4x100 final for cocking up their last change. Schadenfreude much?

Jamaica's time was pretty incredible considering the hash they made of their first two changes.

 

[HF2300]

Schippers 200m today -

Times comparable to FloJo and Marion Jones. Not company she'd like to be in, I suspect

 

[rich p]

It's made sceptics of us all. Who knows.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Schippers has terrible shoulder and back acne. Most unfortunate. Might lead one to suspect steroids. If one was the suspicious type.

 

[psmiffy]

traditionally sprinters seem to get better with age, for a 23 year old to improve that much isn't impossible but to me it is suspicious...

She was pretty fast as a heptathlete - I suspect that not training for the

• 100 metres hurdles.
• High jump.
• Shot put.
• Long jump.
• Javelin throw.
• 800 metres.

may have helped

 

[smutchin]

Bolt showed similar improvements around the same time he was rumoured to be training with Heredia.

Total coincidence, I'm sure.

Although, for what it's worth, Richard Moore in his new book seems reasonably convinced that Bolt is clean.

 

[HF2300]

A bijou linkette might help:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/34190297

http://www.paularadcliffe.com/statement-september-2015/

 

[Cathryn]

I know I'm being naive but I can't believe it. To be honest, I won't believe it until there's proof. But I know how naive I'm being.

 

[Citius]

I know I'm being naive but I can't believe it. To be honest, I won't believe it until there's proof. But I know how naive I'm being.

People used to say the same thing about Lance...

 

[SWSteve]

The Radcliffe thing is odd 'I never doped, but don't you dare look at my data, that's all mine'

Maybe athletics should have released data/made a commitment to actually do some investigating, not throw turds at each other and cry to the press

 

[rich p]

People used to say the same thing about Lance...

They didn't actually, until there was a trickle, then a flood, of evidence. Circumstantial, anecdotal then hard. There are only unsubstantiated accusations against Radcliffe.

 

[graham56]

I have all the time in the world for Lance Armstrong.
We have a man who rode in and won the TdF seven times when taking drugs. A fantastic achievement.
When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike let alone ride it.

Only kidding folks!

 

[Citius]

They didn't actually, until there was a trickle, then a flood, of evidence. Circumstantial, anecdotal then hard. There are only unsubstantiated accusations against Radcliffe.

I was quoting another post. That's what I was referring to, which is why I quoted it. Loads of people thought like that.

 

[rich p]

I was quoting another post. That's what I was referring to, which is why I quoted it. Loads of people thought like that.

Ah, okay. True.

There's still a huge difference between people 'naively' believing that Lance was innocent without 'proof' when there was actually welter of compelling circumstantial evidence around, and the lack of evidence that there is re Radcliffe.