Athletics Weekly

I like tops and the article, just take it for what it is, you are quite coorect when you say no one cater for the unexpected import!!

Colin jackson, Sally Gunnel, Tony Jarrat, Mick Hill, all the very best athletes in fact!

Seasons greetings to all posters

History shows us that one good coach + one good athlete + reasonable facilities can often = Gold medals

History also shows us that after spending £200,000,000 that very little alters in terms of real levels of success.

Sorry to hear of your sad news, I am sure he would have been very proud of your article Bevone, it is excellent; I never knew him but have known people like him and have been honoured and enriched by such associations , as I am sure you have been, thank you for sharing this with us.

Coach's cannot replace school teachers in school time. Coach's do not have enough time to deliver an effective session during a P.E lesson to many Children. Therefore after school coaching has to be the way forward, every school can have a shot and discus circle put down and a long/triple jump runwa...

I agree entirely with this kermit, i spent years in schools and brought some great athletes to our local clubs, schools were pleased because those children with interest and talent got the time and help they needed which of course cannot be afforded by busy school teachers. This is why clubs should ...

Give all this money to the clubs and let them service the schools needs!

Your still a xenophobe, no matter how you dress it.. Total Garbage....This is a standard reply from people like you! Let those who have contributed to our pot have a share in it, Make them them live here and work here and make a contribution, then let them earn their share of the pot.... nothing xen...

I will rephrase it then! Athletes with a british passport not raised in this country and whose parents who have not contributed to the Nations pot or Lottery fund. Put some in take some out as SV rightly says this sort of behaviour could put up and coming home grown talent off and have negative effe...

Why not just do away with national teams and just buy a good team much like football does in the premier league, this begs the question of should these immigrants be given funding which could go to real british athletes, I suggest that they have a five year cooling off period before they get funding...

And that those coachs need other peoples athketes to justify their position and that of their employers UKA.

I wonder if Frank Dick would be saying this if he was recieving these athetes?

Then 13 years of autocratic rule by UKA and EA have finished it off almost.

I would have hoped that there was enough athletic support for copthall to make people think again about this proposed nonsense.

kermit But the bottom line for me is this, once again under a Conservative leadership is dumbing down the kids, the evidence of the effects that has are there for all to see. They cannot get anymore dumbed down after 13 years of new labour X factor style government, the tories have only been in powe...

Most eloquently put steve 8) When the tories were in power I could not afford to take all my children to athletics, this did not change one little bit over the next 13 years of new labour despite hundreds of millions of pounds being pumped into an establishment which had a responsibility to sort the...

Kermit; Keep believing that Sam. Had it not been for a Labour Party you may not be a coach. Utter rubbish kermit, keep politics out of it, all the best coachs made it through their own efforts, new labour coachs are the grimmest to date and the lowest qualified and abled ever, they after all funded ...

A truly dreadful state of affairs Sam, bloody rugby and football have access to plenty of fields that is all they need, why do they want the centre of every athletics facility at the expense of the throwers, Why not put them on the top field or a school field which would bring in income to the schoo...

If every top twenty athlete had to have a blood passport and had to be tested at least four times a year then we might start making real in roads into doping, until such times then it is a case of catch me if you can!

I think we are long over due for a blood passport system, profiling, we could lead the world in this and show at the Olympics just how clean our athletes are.

flumpy On what grounds? There i no evidence that the food poisoning that he supposedly had was anything to do with clembuterol. Just because he says it's the case (Without producing any evidence of it being the case) it doesn't mean that you have to believe him. On the grounds that UKA did not act i...

That seems a very fair anolgy, besides throwers need all the encouragement they can get since the sprinters always steal the limelight.

http://www.foodfacts.org.za/Articles/FoodPoisoning.asp Why Don't We Hear About Food Poisoning In South Africa? In South Africa, food poisoning is a notifiable disease, but the surveillance system is not effective. South Africa reports just a few hundred cases of food poisoning per year, whereas the ...

Sorry but I simply don't see why anyone would save food on an outward bound course in case there was food poisoning after the event. what use is the food then? It doesn't matter whether or not you do not see why we kept samples what matters is that we did and we did it for obvious reasons, had sampl...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382130/pdf/pubhealthrep00054-0108.pdf This makes for interesting reading and shows such things do happen, is it any surprise that a young man attaches blame to the only thing he is taking (supplements) how could he possibly know that his food was tainted ...

BigGut said Please have a brain. I have a brain and a conscience and always accept the responsibility for young people in my care, please keep your rude comments for those types with whom you associate. Admin please remind this poster not to abuse fellow members. I stand by what I have said, if I to...

By going on google and reading the side effects of clenbuteral it seems to match the symptoms that the athletes suffered from. What we do know is, there has been big cases of it in China, Mexico, even portugal was mentioned, it is readily available in South Africa. What cannot be ruled out is spikin...

Official taster and tester required for UKA away team, sounds like another job title

Seriously though tainted meat is a known factor therefore it should be tested , there are no cases of this substance in fruit or veg or beer is there?

Now we have heard all the evidence and excluded meat and personal use we are left with the possibility that the food or drinks was spiked. Was anyone else tested at this time?

BigGut Flash, Can you show me the hordes of failed tests by atheletes from Africa as a result of this supposed issue. I just don't buy it. If there was a problem with the food supply then people living there would be failing for clenbutarol left right and centre. I did not say they had BigGut I said...

Yes kermit you are correct to say a chef/nutritionist should be taken with them, samples of all foods could be taken and stored. Is this so unreasonable given how many problems Africa has with steroids intheir meat. This is a well documented problem UKA could have made sure all athletes especially y...