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[Occasional Hope]

Yeah, no one believes those excuses any more.

[Grassmarket]

Italian shot putter Nick Ponzio retires/gets ban after a three strikes whereabouts failure. Insisted it was dodgy kit & confusion, but that won’t wash anymore.

[LuckySpikes]

World Record holder for the 10km, Rhonex Kipruto has been charged with doping based on his biological passport.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/may/17/kenya-10km-world-record-holder-rhonex-kipruto-suspended-for-doping

[Laps]

Apart from infringing that doomed to failure and irrelevance 'Nannying Adults rule' I'm not sure what else Reider did?
Anyway whatever it was it doesn't seem to have much relevance to Salazar.

[Occasional Hope]

Yes, and he got more of a ban for that than Reider, who has been 'censured' for inappropriate relationships, but is now allowed to coach again.

[Laps]

Or they didn't exist. The CAS appeal crawled over all available evidence and still nothing popped up.
Ethically dubious medication yes. Any number of failed TUE attempts but doping there was none.

The US Safe Sport ban was supposedly based on sexual misconduct, emotional abuse and weight shaming allegations.

[Ladyloz]

USADA did go after Salazar and NOP to be fair; they spent years investigating them. Salazar got a 4 year ban (later US Safe Sport investigations resulted in a lifetime ban) and Nike Oregon Project was shut down.

Unfortunately they couldn't nail Salazar's doping methods to individual athletes.

[Laps]

Grassmarket

That would be an extreme example of whataboutery.
If it hadn't been Sala*ar and for his annoyance of USADA over the years (about rules, TUEs etc) it must be very doubtful that they would have gone after him at all.
In the end he got a 4 year suspension for very little.
Namely possession of testostone gel with no evidence it was ever used on competing athletes, only himself and his sons.
Being involved in an L-carnitine experiment on a coach.
Misleading USADA a lot.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal verdict concluded that the misleading was the more serious of the rule breaches.
There was no evidence at all of elite athlete performance doping.

[philipo]

The cost of american lawyers for one and I suspect Salazar and NOP not quite as bad

[Grassmarket]

As somebody pointed out on totallympics, it’s great that this guy is having the book thrown at him, but how come Salazar & the Nike Oregon Project get a pass?

[RunUnlimited]

Holy ****, I'm reading these filings and they are DAMNING against Blessing Okagbare.

They paint a picture of an athlete who was a seasoned drugs cheat (read the complaint from the FBI regarding the incriminating messages she sent to the person supplying her EPO and hGH, Eric Lira, where she provided a list of drugs that she wanted, including EPO and hGH. Also how she expressed how "pleased she was" with the 100m time she ran last year (10.63 with a 2.7m wind) and told Lira that whatever he had done was working well.)

They also showed a manipulative character who knew how to bend the rules to suit her needs, like how she deliberately missed a test so that it would be a whereabouts miss, because she wanted to avoid getting tested following a recent dosage.

Seeing Okagbare then flail around trying to claim that the AIU had targeted her by leaking the results of the positive B sample to the Nigerian press, that the samples had been incorrectly stored, denying that she'd taken hGH or EPO, or that she'd never known Eric Lira, was just pathetic to read. They had her bang to rights and the 10 year ban was entirely justified.

Based on this ruling, I'd be fairly confident in stating that Okagbare had been cheating for years, considering the evidence presented in the case.


Good riddance to bad rubbish.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/65531036

Further developments on this case.... The guy who supplied Okagbare with the HGH ultimately lead to her huge doping ban, Eric Lira, could get up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty under a new US law to tackle the criminal aspects of doping violations, something that should have been done ages ago in my opinion.

[Runner88]

And will forever throw into doubt his performance in 2012. With Amantle Montsho busted for doping it also doesn’t look great for athletics in Botswana. Two major stars of the sport there tainted with doping. They have a really bright crop of youngsters who I hope have nothing to do with the coaches or set up of these cheats

[Stew-Coach]

What's extremely more disappointing about this, is the initial denial and trying to find the loophole!
I'm innocent, test the B sample
I'm innocent its my supplements test them
OK I did it! I knew what I was doing!

[Occasional Hope]

Three years for Nijel Amos.

[Occasional Hope]

Not, I feel, one of the more unexpected positives.

Do we have a time frame? The link suggests her WC gold could be in jeopardy, but that would mean Getachew would be elevated which could be awkward given the recent decision by WA about DSD athletes.