World Athletics - Blighted by doping and cheating.

Certainly agree with you Kennine but alas its all money ! money ! money ! 

A number of cyclists have now described how easy it was to avoid the random drug tests......usually by simply 'being elsewhere' when the doping team visited.

Better to accept a warning for missing a test than to fail a test.

How many top athletes have fallen foul of missing tests (including many British athletes)? Does anyone seriously believe that they weren't doing exactly the same thing?

Well, following on from my last post, Lizzie Armistead has just managed to get away with missing three tests in the last year.

She didn't appeal against he first missed test until she had three strikes against her. Her appeal was based on the testers not having made enough effort to wake her. Probably difficult for them, if she was in hiding somewhere!

Disgraceful, but she's on the British team so (like many before her) she gets away with it.

Guilty as anything!

Listening  to  the  latest  news  with  respect  to  drugs,  suspensions  &  appeals  coming  out  of  Rio d J  this  week,  personally  I'll  just  accept  that  they  are  all  "at  it"  and  that  any  records  generated  will  only  be  to  show  how  good  the  respective  Drug  Scientists  are

Brian  A B M

Incidentally  was  it  this  bad  when  the  Olympics  were  75%  amateur  ?  { Don't  think  they were  ever  100%  amateur  }

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When I was training at pole vault all those years ago at lilleshall with all the other young hopefuls for Munich 72 there was never a thought about drugs. For me, it's ruined a sport that I loved. Can't be asked to even watch it now- if there is one cheat, the whole thing is degraded! 

I  never  reached  the  dizzy  heights  of  being  coached,  or  even  considered  for  coaching,  but  nevertheless,  I  lived  for  sport  and,  in  my  tiny  mind,  still  do.

Thats  what  makes  it  all  so  utterly  appalling,  all  those  children  willing  to give  almost  anything  to  represent  Club  or  Country  just  to  try  to  win  a  gong  or  something  ==  all  robbed  of even  the  remotest  chance  of  their  dream  coming  true  by  some  drug  pusher  making  a  not  so  small  fortune  and caring nothing,  nothing  for  the  sport  or  the  competitors.

Its  almost  enough  to  drive  an  old  man  to  tears 

Watching Adam Peaty get His Gold(cleanly) & setting a new record was amazing. Clean Athletes are out there. 7yrs of being under the microscope from His coaches & drug testers & it comes down to 2lengths of a pool. To see His joy is worth it for Him. To the clean Athletes I have nothing but respect & admiration.

Just out of interest, how do you know that this Peaty chap is 'clean' then, Rocky?

Many athletes (including cyclists) were 'under the microscope of the testers' but managed to evade them easily enough and subsequently turned out to have been doping.

As I understand it, this chap managed to break his own record, twice, at just the right time - when he was in line for a gold medal.

Not saying anything one way or the other (I know nothing about him) but is that a remarkable coincidence?

This is the problem with doping and ineffective testing regimes (that allow someone to 'miss' three tests in a year and get away with it). Suddenly everyone's achievements come under suspicion.

Cheating has now become so sophisticated that the testers cant keep up.Dont trust any sportsman, Prof or Amateur.