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Thread.
Interesting statistic:
Since 1957, 72% of Tour de France victories have been achieved by riders implicated in doping scandals. 💊
These riders and their infractions are listed below. 👇
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UK sport pumped £232,000,000 into GB's elite programme for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
14 gold medals so far.
That's approximately £16.5 million per gold medal.
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Excellent detective work. 👏
Sinner's physio told
@itia_tennis
that he cut his finger on 3 March.
But ... he only put a bandage on his finger on 10 March!
Which just happens to be the day of Sinner's doping test.
👀
@itia_tennis
I got into the investigative spirit here, and tracked this man's left pinky finger throughout Indian Wells 2024.
This bandage during the third round match on March 10, the day of Sinner's first positive test, is an outlier; every other match, Naldi's finger was bare, as stated.
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This doping case is almost identical to Sinner's.
Cut finger, Clostebol spray used.
But the player still got a ban.
This happened in Italian basketball in 2021.
Sinner's physio was working for an Italian basketball team in 2021.
🤔
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Do sports commodities worth $158 million get banned?
Not very often.
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Fair play to the Irish journalists for actually asking this awkward question.
Next step for sports journalists: directly ask US sprinters like Richardson and Bednarek about the example they are setting to young athletes by training under Dennis Mitchell.
"How are we supposed to believe that you're running clean today?"
Salwa Eid Naser 🇧🇭 being hounded by two Irish journalists to answer questions relating to her doping ban.
This was just moments after winning her first Olympic medal.🥈🥈
#Paris2024
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pic of the day - Froome turns to see a fan pretending to inject his own arm
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On 4 April Sinner received a letter telling him that he had failed a test.
On the SAME DAY his lawyers put together an explanation and draft a letter to challenge the provisional suspension. This was lifted within 24 hours.
Sounds like collusion between the player and ITIA.
Big news.
World
#1
tennis player Jannik Sinner tested +ve twice for the steroid Clostebol in March of this year.
He has been cleared after successfully arguing that his physiotherapist inadvertently contaminated him with the steroid.
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So if Freeman is found guilty of supplying Testosterone to cyclists, will we still believe that Geert Leinders was hired by Team Sky to take temperatures and dish out cough sweets?
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On the plus side there is proof that Sinner's physio purchased the Clostebol cream, on 12 February. This sort of cream is indeed used to heal cuts.
What I find really impressive is the prescience to buy it for a cut that happened on 3 March.
🤔
@cleans_letsrun
My concern is this is literally the most unbelievable excuse I have ever heard. Including the burrito one.
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Thread.
It was six years ago this week that Chris Froome was cleared of doping by the UCI.
This thread explains in simple and chronological terms what happened.
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Agree on the TUE point, but the "billionth of a gram" defence shows a lack of understanding of the basics of pharmacokinetics.
Every drug has a half-life, and some are so short that the drug has reduced to the point of being untraceable just a day or two after consumption.
Before jumping to conclusions, Jannik Sinner had less than a billionth of a gram in his system.. I believe him 💯.. maybe we should change threshold cater for contamination.
Finally why the uproar for this when we allow athletes in all sports, including tennis, to abuse TUE’s?
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Ingebrigsten has a pop at athletes who are "hiding after big championships."
Athletes who limit their racing are in some quarters considered suspicious, the belief being that they do so because they want to avoid unnecessary drugs tests.
Here are some additional comments Jakob Ingebrigtsen made to NRK:
🗣️ "Today, it's a lot about seeing where the form is. We haven't had time to do much since we ran in Paris, but it's cool that so many people are showing up - and not just going and hiding after big
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Be interesting to see if WADA appeal.
Sinner may be innocent, but what's troubling about the case is the lack of challenge to any of the evidence cited, + failure to sanction the physio. It's as if all parties wanted the case resolved in Sinner's favour as quickly as possible.
Marca says that WADA has until 6th September to appeal in the Sinner case.
They cite the case of the 🇪🇸 skater Laura Barquero, based in Italy, who also tested positive for clostebol.
WADA appealed her case but it remains a mystery as to what the outcome of that case was.
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Incredible stuff here. The new ITF head of anti-doping, Nicole Sapstead, is found to have been forewarning players of doping tests as well as inviting the top players to arrange their own doping tests. 👇
Exclusive: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) allows the world’s best tennis players to book their own doping tests.
And players undergo significantly less doping tests than the ITF states they do in official statistics.
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So Froome confidently tells us that doping was a hundred times worse during the Lance Armstrong era. Exaggeration notwithstanding, is Froome aware that there are currently 15 riders banned for EPO, another 21 for CERA, and a further 31 for steroids?
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I have to say, Adam Peaty's not wrong here.
Letting each nation test its own athletes is such an obvious conflict of interest.
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<short thread>
Irrespective of whether Sinner intentionally doped or not (I have no idea), there are some potentially disturbing items in the processing of the case.
I'll list some of these.
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#1
Jacques Anquetil
5 Wins: 1957, 1961-64
During a heated televised debate with a government minister, Anquetil declared “you can’t ride the Tour de France on mineral water. [...] Leave me in peace. Everyone takes dope.”
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Chris Froome
4 Wins: 2013, 2015-17
Froome tested +ve for excessive levels of Salbutamol during the 2017 Vuelta a España. He was eventually cleared by the UCI, although the exact reasons why have never been fully explained.
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Nobody listened to Jo Pavey in 2015.
I'm concerned by the number of athletes reportedly taking thyroid medication. Some might be legitimate but I find the situation worrying.
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Thread on Dennis Mitchell, coach of the three female 100m runners who will represent the USA at Paris 2024.
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She ran 2.33 in April 2022. That's a 21 minute improvement.
🤔
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The great paradox about Team Sky GC riders is how they always seem to perform at their best when they are apparently at their sickest.
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This is very disappointing.
One of the experts asked to review the evidence presented was told beforehand that the athlete involved was Sinner.
Anonymity improves the chances of an impartial response.
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Dwain Chambers may join UK Athletics as drugs adviser.
No, I'm not making this up.
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Men's marathon winner Tamirat Tola managed by Gianni Demadonna.
Women's 10,000m winner Beatrice Chebet managed by Federico Rosa.
Demadonna recently had 5 of his athletes suspended for doping in the space of a year.
In 2016 Rosa faced prosecution in Kenya for doping athletes.
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Big news.
World
#1
tennis player Jannik Sinner tested +ve twice for the steroid Clostebol in March of this year.
He has been cleared after successfully arguing that his physiotherapist inadvertently contaminated him with the steroid.
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"mentally impaired from dehydration"
Literally, any excuse now can be used with UKAD. So long as you are famous enough.
British Double Olympic taekwondo🥇 Jade Jones refused a drug test in December.
It was accepted that Jones was mentally impaired from dehydration. She will not be banned by UK Anti-Doping.
"she became irrational, suffering a complete loss of her cognitive senses".
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For anyone who thinks heavily tested athletes must be clean, read what Lance Armstrong had to say about that.
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Piece on Peter Bol, who is competing for Australia in the 800m at Paris 2024.
The article describes Bol's clearance of EPO charges due to sample degradation, but fails to mention that the athlete was found to be researching micro-doping on the internet.
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Eddy Merckx
5 Wins: 1969-72, 1974
Merckx tested positive for drugs on three separate occasions.
These failures sometimes overshadowed his achievements, as exemplified by race authorities asking him to stay away from the 2007 UCI Road World Championships in Stuttgart.
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All I can suggest is - don't ask your team doctors for advice on recovering lost data.
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This is hilarious when stated plainly:
200+ athletes stayed in a hotel.
A prescription heart medication drug, only available in pill form, found its way into the food served.
The resulting contamination affected Chinese swimmers but not other athletes.
🤪😄😄😄
No explanation as to how the doping substance (heart medication) got into the kitchen in the first place. More than 200 athletes were staying in the same hotel. Why there haven't been more contaminated, if the evil came from the kitchen pots? / 4
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For those of you who consistently argue that elite athletes don't dope or don't need to dope.
Ask yourself then why anti-doping agencies were created, and continue to exist.
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This is why anti-doping is so screwed.
Completely different standards applied to different athletes.
One gets a career-destroying ban. The other gets off scot-free.
🤷♂️
Lastly, officially Sinner was cleared of any intent to cheat.
Also officially, according to the same standard of proof, the case of Stefano Battaglino 🎾(2023) shows that one Italian player has doped with Clostebol.
4-year ban and unable to show he didn't cheat.
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Lance Armstrong
7 Wins: 1999-2005
Banned for life for doping by the UCI in 2012. Armstrong admitted in 2013 to doping with various substances throughout his career.
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What is less well known is that Salazar began his controversial experiments with L-Carnitine after hearing that it had been successfully trialled on a leading British cyclist. (Source = Allan Kupczak, a former therapist within NOP) 2/2
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I've read the full review. However, I didn't wilfully ignore the words 'plausible' and 'could'.
Yes, it is plausible that this is a contamination scenario.
It is also plausible that the athlete was doping with Clostebol and the concentrations found are low due to timings.
‼️👇🇮🇹 To be clear:
- Anybody suggesting that what Sinner had in his system affected ANY tennis *result* hasn’t read the full review.
The EXPERT testimony says the level of the substance was so minimal that it wouldn’t have any effect on his performance WHATSOEVER
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Dear
@olympics
, you have retested samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Can you be open and state whether you have retested samples from athletes representing GB and USA, who between them won 22% and 25% of the available Golds in Beijing and London respectively?
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"Chalmers was left astonished by Pan’s performance, and was asked afterwards whether the incredible time – which took a massive 0.4 seconds of his existing world record – raised suspicions."
No such media questions when the UK and US smash records.
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Bernard Hinault
5 Wins: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985
'The Badger' refused to take a doping control test at the 1982 Critérium de Callac and was subsequently banned.
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Looking forward to Nike and its ambassadors explaining how a doping coach can be at the centre of their training project for so many years.
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Miguel Indurain
5 Wins: 1991-95
Indurain never tested +ve but worked with EPO pioneer Francesco Conconi.
He staunchly defended Lance Armstrong, even after his UCI ban: "Even now I believe in his innocence. He has always respected all the regulations." (2012)
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This could get very interesting.
If USADA did indeed act in violation of the World Anti-Doping Code, as alleged, WADA have the power to declare them non-compliant.
USADA in effect would be suspended as an anti-doping agency.
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Fabulous look for US sprinting.
Dennis Mitchell, the coach who worked with Justin Gatlin.
Dennis Mitchell, banned in 1999 for doping with Testosterone.
Dennis Mitchell, who after his ban received HGH injections from BALCO coach Trevor Graham.
#cleanSport
Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson, TeeTee Terry.
That’s your US Olympic team in the women’s 100 meters.
Dennis Mitchell sweep.
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Doping case made Sinner so ill that he missed Paris Olympics
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Alberto Contador
3 Wins: 2007, 2009, 2010
Contador was named in the Operación Puerto case. He was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title after testing +ve for Clenbuterol.
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Bradley Wiggins
1 Win: 2012
A UK parliamentary report suggested Wiggins used performance-enhancing drugs under the guise of treating a legitimate medical condition in order to win the 2012 Tour de France. He was also accused of violating the UCI's 'no needles' policy.
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Breaking:
Fastest non-African marathoner ever, Daniel do Nascimiento (2:04.51), suspended after testing +ve for 3 steroids.
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View on Community Notes? I downvoted this one.
It omitted an important piece of context: Cowan says this is "plausible based on the explanation given".
In fact, all the experts in the case refer only to *plausibility*.
In other words, the scenario is possible. That's it.
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Probably the quote of the week so far on Team Sky, courtesy of Floyd Landis:
"The little pieces add up and no one with more than two brain cells would add it all up and conclude that it was all just coincidental"
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Remarkable claims against the University of Freiberg, accused of being a doping facilitator for many years.
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Amazing stat - no World Cup player has failed a doping test since 1994.
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Did any of you watch the Dublin 2022 Marathon?
Guess what. It was a sham.
A doper won it.
When you watch a marathon, very often there's a doper on the podium.
That's not a view - it's statistically true.
The winner of the 2022 Dublin Marathon, Taoufik Allam of Morocco, has tested positive for EPO and been provisionally suspended by
@aiu_athletics
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Charly Gaul
1 Win: 1958
Gaul was famous for being able to consume more amphetamines than other riders.
Marcel Ernzer warned Charly that he might die from taking too many pills.
"But everybody takes them." replied Gaul.
"Yes, but Charly a lot more than the others."
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For the Simona Halep case, CAS threw out the claim by Dr Daniel Eichner that Halep would have needed to have consumed 50kg of the alleged contaminated supplement a day(!) in order to produce the concentration found in her sample.
Eichner is a world expert on Roxadustat doping.
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Jan Ullrich
1 Win: 1997
DNA evidence linked Ullrich to Operación Puerto. He admitted in 2013 that he had doped during his career.
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USADA bust Alberto Salazar. The AIU bring down Asbel Kiprop. The Anti-Doping Agency in Kenya nail Rita Jeptoo.
UKAD go after Love Island.
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It has been revealed that Peter Bol, cleared of doping last year, had downloaded information on how to micro-dose EPO.
😲👀💉💪💰
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This is a must-read.
A great example of how cheats try to co-opt the narrative with aggressive gaslighting.
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Athletes and coaches know by now that off-season doping gives them the primary benefit and, whilst in-competition doping might help a little, it's not worth the risk.
IS WADA DRUG TESTING AT OLYMPICS TOTALLY INEPT? Does Every Athlete Get Drug Tested at Olympics? Yes all 10,500 athletes were tested at 2024 Olympics by
@wada_ama
& ONLY TWO POSITIVES FOUND. Normal + rate is 1% or 10 positives. ONLY 2 is NOT BELIEVABLE
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Marco Pantani
1 Win: 1998
'The Pirate' failed a blood test in 1999. Insulin was found in his room in 2001, leading to a UCI suspension.
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UK relay team announced for Paris 2024:
Ujah - returns from doping suspension
Kilty - said he'd never forgive Ujah
Prescod - walked out on relay team last year
Mitchell-Blake - trains with disgraced coach Lance Baumann
Should be drama-free, right?
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It should be flagged up that UKAD obstructed the Salazar investigation by refusing a request from USADA for Mo Farah's samples for retesting.
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Great point.
Why fine Sinner a huge chunk of money if he is innocent?
Can you imagine going to court, the jury find you innocent of the charges, and yet the judge takes your house away?
I like
#Sinner
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I noticed that also.
Sinner was clearly forewarned.
Sinner suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for just 24 hours after failing two drugs tests. In that time his lawyers wrote to it to offer an explanation. What’s surprising is how quick the agency accepted the explanation before suspension lifted.
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Funny how we get this narrative for British and Aussie athletes. But when it's a Kenyan or Eastern European who tests +ve it is simply assumed that they doped and that's the end of it.
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This is the second almost identical case I have seen to Sinner's.
In both of those cases the athlete received a ban.
Definitely preferential treatment for this big fish.
And his lawyers didn't even need to work hard to get the desired outcome.
Yeah. Clearly Sinner's case was treated differently and preferentially.
Exact same case for a low ranked futures level player - 15 month ban.
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Laurent Fignon
2 Wins: 1983, 1984
Fignon twice failed drugs tests and admitted to having used cortisone, amphetamines and other drugs.
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Luis Ocaña
1 Win: 1973
Ocaña failed a test on Stage 18 of the 1977 Tour de France, remembered as the 'Tour de Dope' due to the number of positive tests recorded.
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Doping quotes thread.
I'll start.
This is from former world number one 400m runner David Jenkins.
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WADA to investigate why athletes in China + other countries who are testing +ve for banned drugs are escaping discipline.
WADA should know. In 2016, as part of retesting, they swept under the carpet multiple Clenbuterol +ve's from Jamaican sprinters.
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Incredible.
UK double Olympic Gold Medallist cleared to compete in Paris Olympics despite REFUSING drugs test.
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Bernard Thevenet
2 Wins: 1975, 1977
Thevenet admitted to using steroids for the two Tours de France which he won.
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Dutch football commentator accuses Pogacar of doping.
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Gastone Nencini
1 Win: 1960
In 1960, Tour de France doctor Pierre Dumas, checking up on the riders, entered a hotel bedroom and discovered Nencini on his bed with plastic tubes running from each arm to a bottle containing hormones.
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Probably one of the most overlooked quotes ever. This is from former Canadian 100m star Anson Henry, who refused to dope and thus remained on the fringes of high level success in his field.
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Why is it that certain sportspeople seem to be utterly meticulous and professional when it comes to winning, but are 'careless' and 'unprofessional' when it comes to anti-doping?
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The Ghost of Marginal Gains. I'm going to make this my Pinned Tweet.
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French marathon runner Medhi Frere will not run in his home Olympics as he has been suspended for whereabouts failures.
Eyebrows had been raised over his improvement from 2:14.25 to 2:08.55 in just one year.
Coached by Thierry Choffin.
The AIU has provisionally suspended Medhi Frère (France) for Whereabouts Failures
Details here:
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Jonas Vingegaard missed test because of "broken doorbell"
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Bahrain found to have facilitated the doping of its athletes with blood transfusions and the employment of a banned coach.
🇧🇭 World Athletics announces the Bahrain Athletics Association (BAA) has admitted to “conducting itself in relation to doping, negligently and/or recklessly and/or so as to prejudice the interests of World Athletics or bring the sport of athletics into disrepute."
– As a
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Russia accuse UK Anti-Doping of creating 'wall of mistrust' over Mo Farah drug samples via
@TelegraphSport
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So,
@iaaforg
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Sobering statistic.
70% of the fastest men's 100m times have been run by athletes who have failed doping tests.
Out of the 30 fastest 100m sprint times ever, only 9 of them were run by a clean athlete. And all 9 were by Usain Bolt.
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Floyd Landis
1 Win: 2006
Landis was found to have illegal limits of testosterone in his body during the 2006 Tour de France. In 2010 he admitted to doping during his career with multiple banned drugs.
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Lol.
Simona Halep would have needed to consume each day 9 kilos of her allegedly contaminated Keto MCT supplement in order to produce the concentrations of Roxadustat found in her 29 August urine sample.
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The Times has seen evidence that WADA were indeed notified of USADA's plan to use doping athletes as informants.
This contradicts WADA's own claim that they were not informed of the practice.
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So doping is widespread in amateur sport, but the amateurs give it up when they turn pro?
🤔
NEWS | UK Anti-Doping and British sports come together to combat ‘widespread’ problem in amateur sport.
Full story ➡️
#CleanSport
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USADA has accused WADA of being unduly lenient in respect of the 23 Chinese doping +ve's.
Here's an interesting fact:
According to published figures, USADA is the world's most lenient national anti-doping agency.
USADA sanctions just 26% of athletes who fail a drugs test.
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8 year ban for Olympic Gold medallist Gil Roberts.
Previously tested +ve in 2017. USADA fast-tracked his case so he could make the US trials. His excuse that the +ve was caused by kissing his girlfriend was accepted.
Incredible leniency.
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Sixth fastest marathon runner ever receives 10 year ban for doping.
(Yes, he's Kenyan.)
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What sport has the most cheaters and dopers?
My vote goes to marathon running.
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