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Awful athlete and one of the more obvious dopers over the last decade. She was not an awful athlete or an obvious doper. Apart from being spanish distance runner and her name being associated there was nothing particularly suspicious about her performances or behaviour. I'm sorry, did you not say a...

The article specifically states that her haemoglobin levels were high in 2009 when she won the world title. Can she be stripped of her gold medal? It talks about a two year ban but that seems meaningless if it starts this year! There could be a precedent with the Inga Abitova case. Her suspension b...

I'm guessing that when you saw the title of this thread you knew what was coming. The IAAF seems to have nabbed her. http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2013/05/21/actualidad/1369161123_744568.html I know you shouldn't enjoy the misfortunes of others but, to be honest, my schaden has never been freu...

pedro1970 wrote:Seeing some Twitter news suggesting that KJT has injured her take off foot???

Now suggesting a stress fracture.

OH... Jack Green... anyone know if it is injury related? Also, an observation, and hoping to promote discussion ... the men's hammer had 6 people over 70m LOU 8 Alex Smith Loughborough 72.45m GBJ 5 Michael Painter GB Juniors 71.85m SCO 9 Mark Dry Scotland 71.69m ENG 11 James Bedford England (Guest)...

D pickup Thanks for that great post; I was thinking in the small hours of this morning about the very rankings that you came up with. I anticipated that the post OG year rankings would be worse now and not much better by September of this year, except in a few events. jeremy1 thank you. Yes OLY yea...

Who holds the WL for posting irritating spam about fitted kitchens?
A few candidates round here...

Jeremy if you look at current teams and previosu teams for lough brough they would get points in the NCAA finals. Look at last years results and in the field especially the Loughborugh team and UWIC team of recent years would score points. E.g Brett morse, dai Green, and a high jumper (2.25 adn ong...

Why TBO? Is it some sort of doping reference? Been trying to work it out The Big O - no doping reference, more her intimidating stature compared to some, and the way people (should) fear her chasing them down the home straight! Or a variation of The Big G, G for gold. It's both as well as the fact ...

Flumpy wrote:What's the point of this?

Would have been a brilliant idea 60 years ago.
I can still see it working well for some of the smaller sports but not really the big ones like athletics, swimming and cycling.

So I beleive Lisa will soon be upgraded to 9th, top 8 is helpful for future selelction isn't it? I'm sure she'll get there. That got me thinking about Hilary Stellingwerff of Canada. Missed out on an Olympic final because of Alptekin. http://runningmagazine.ca/2013/03/sections/news/womens-1500m-gol...

AP News now reporting that Alptekin and Yanit are officially to be charged with doping.
Please cover the fan because something is about to hit...

It looks like Russia is getting serious. If you want to be a Sporting superpower having nobody believe your results are clean or won't be overturned in a few years kinda undermines the supposed respect that is desired by being a top power. As, from what I have gathered and discussed, the tests are ...

It looks like Russia is getting serious. If you want to be a Sporting superpower having nobody believe your results are clean or won't be overturned in a few years kinda undermines the supposed respect that is desired by being a top power. As, from what I have gathered and discussed, the tests are ...

Former steeplechaser Adam Bowden also finished a great 6th over in the San Diego triathlon, where Non Stanford also a former runner came a great 2nd in the womens. I think Alistair could challenge for a spot in the mens 10,000m and Non Stanford could likely do the same for the womens 10,000m for Wa...

Listening to the commentary on his triathlon win 10 days ago they mentioned he was working off only 6 weeks training.

I think we should make a distinction between the East Germans, who by and large were victims of the political system, and, for instance, the women who finished in front of Tullett.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvKlO89ngc
This is an absolutely brilliant piece of history.
GB vs USA 4x400 1936 Berlin Olympics.

This may be nothing or it may be significant. http://haber.sol.org.tr/spor/asli-cakir-alptekin-ve-nevin-yanit-milli-takima-alinmadi-haberi-71954 Translation was a bit wobbly but it appears Alptekin and Nevin Yanit are not in the Turkish team for the Mediterranean Games. Yanit is the reigning champ. ...

http://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/russian-weightlifters-arrested-for-smuggling-steroids_760313.html O.K. This is weightlifting not athletics but one sentence in the article chilled me to the bone. "When they were arrested, the weightlifters were in possession of a combined 2,000 kg of anab...

These Russian cases just keep a coming...
http://www.business-standard.com/articl ... 445_1.html

I've often made reference to a Olympic champion who as an obvious drug cheat. Presumably now I can say the I was talking about Sean Crawford. He was the size of a house around 2004, just like Dwain and considering who his coach was the chances are he was dirty. I always assumed he stopped after he ...

This one's not Russian.
But he is an Olympic champion.
Shawn Crawford gets 2 year ban for whereabouts failure.
http://www.usada.org/media/sanction-crawford4182013

And again...
http://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/ ... um=twitter

clutch30green wrote:Who are the 6? - I can see Rutherford, Jegede, Tomlinson, Burton. I would love to see 6. I do agree though that the men's Long Jump is really developing.

Maybe Bramble, Reid, Pickup, Safo, Groocock, Ewulo ?
All-Athletics.Com actually rates Britain as the no.1 nation in LJ - ahead of the USA.

The Russian situation just gets worse.. http://skirun.ru/2013/04/10/rodchenkova-doping/ Translation. Marina Rodchenkova, part of the USSR x-country team that won the world title in 1988, sent to prison for trafficking in testosterone, oxandrolone and methandienone. Her brother happens to be the head...

When I thought about it again I could see the point being made and my answer was not necessarily that useful! My assumption is that a period of suspension cannot begin now and the only logical start date is the date the sample was taken. But the extract I have read does not make this clear. Logical...

8. In addition to the automatic disqualification of the results in the Competition which produced the positive sample under Rules 39 and 40, all other competitive results obtained from the date the positive Sample was collected (whether In-Competition or Out-of- Competition) or other anti-doping ru...

8. In addition to the automatic disqualification of the results in the Competition which produced the positive sample under Rules 39 and 40, all other competitive results obtained from the date the positive Sample was collected (whether In-Competition or Out-of- Competition) or other anti-doping ru...