which country will have the most drugs test failures?

[CharlieAddict]

The thing is even clean atheletes take foods and stuff to make them competitive, but if they are trying to be clean they will try to get as close to the illegal stuff as possible but not actually take anything that is illegal.

Then there are the cheats, they will try only to take drugs which will not show up under current testing regimes. So just because someone does not test positive does not mean that they are not a cheat, they could just have found a drug that does not show up under current testing.

and all the new testings are done under secrecy.
no-one outside of the WADA know the procedures - keeps the cheats guessing.

even in local sports where i'm training to compete, there are some athletes on the circuit that are take some form of roids.

 

[Melinda]

Previously banned Russian athlete Valeriy Borchin won the 20K walk today.

He did a one-year ban for doping with ephedrine in 2006, a year where 15 Russian athletes were banned.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Why should he be allowed to compete when chambers wasn't?

 

[Lord Camomile]

I was surprised that a walker would be doing drugs at all

To be honest, the whole event baffles me. Who first thought it'd be a good idea? And at what point in your athletics career do you think "walking, that's for me"?

 

[TrippyLondoner]

I was thinking along those lines to.

 

[Melinda]

Why should he be allowed to compete when chambers wasn't?

Different nationl rulez innit.

Its what half the Chambers fuss is about, I think its only us and Norway that dont send athlete who have served a doping ban to the 'Lympics.

Russianz is eatings the dopes and Putin saiz "yeahhhh!"

 

[Melinda]

I was surprised that a walker would be doing drugs at all

To be honest, the whole event baffles me. Who first thought it'd be a good idea? And at what point in your athletics career do you think "walking, that's for me"?

Less competition, more chance of a medal, I assume?

Soon as themz Africans learn to walk tho... watch outs!

 

[Lord Camomile]

Perhaps, but surely the prestige of "I won an Olympic gold" is scuppered somewhat by "in walking".

And you just know people would ask...

 

[Melinda]

Ive just read that on Tuesday just gone, the IAAF set aside the World Record for the 4x400 set in 1998.

Reason: Antonio Pettigrew admitted doping in court. They have wiped out all his stats.

Also on the team and therefore having their record wiped out were Michael Johnson, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young.

Actually Jerome Young himself was later permabanned for doping in 2004.

The previous World Record has been reinstated- from 1993.

Story here: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=3531006

 

[JTG]

An American athlete doped to the eyeballs and never found out at the time? Well I never

 

[Melinda]

Greece claim another drugs cheat

BBC reporting that the reigning Olympic 400m hurdles champion Fani Halkia has failed a drugs test and will not defend her crown in Beijing.

Halkia, 29, failed a test conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency while she was preparing for the Games in Japan.

The athlete tested positive for the banned steroid methyltrienolone but said she did not know how it had got into her sample.

 

[CharlieAddict]

could this be the 'truest' olympics and champions?

the standard of anti-doping is pretty high...

 

[Nigel Irritable]

could this be the 'truest' olympics and champions?

the standard of anti-doping is pretty high...

The standard of anti-doping is better than ever before. Unfortunately, so is the standard of doping.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Do they test straight after a gold medal is won or is it random and more to the point have they tested bolt since his race????

 

[Jessiedog]

The athlete tested positive for the banned steroid methyltrienolone but said she did not know how it had got into her sample.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

BOLLOCKS!




Woof

 

[grimble]

I was surprised that a walker would be doing drugs at all

To be honest, the whole event baffles me. Who first thought it'd be a good idea? And at what point in your athletics career do you think "walking, that's for me"?

Somebody once described the fast walking event as "as pointless as a loud whispering competition".

 

[Melinda]

Fifth positive test.

Liudmyla Blonska, the Ukrainian Heptathlon silver medallist who had previously been caught doping and served a ban, has tested positive for a banned substance for a second time.

The IOC have opened an investigation but she likely to be slung out out of the Games.

The silver and bronze medals will be redistributed- Hyleas Fountain was third and Tatiana Chernova was fourth.

 

[Melinda]

Horse doping scandal!

Jesus!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Yeah heard about that but didn't hear which countries got caught, who were they?

 

[Flashman]

Lol even the horses are involved.

 

[Melinda]

Ireland and Norway!

Four horses that contested the Olympic show jumping event have tested positive for the banned substance capsaicin.
Ireland's Denis Lynch, riding the horse Lantinus in the individual events, has been suspended from the Games.
Norway's Tony Andre Hansen on Camiro, Brazil's Bernardo Alves on Chupa Chup and Germany's Christian Ahlmann on Coster have also been suspended.

From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/equestrian/7574220.stm

They're all doing it, doing it doing it!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Its good to know people are getting caught.

 

[Flashman]

And horses.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

was gonna say that...

 

[Melinda]

 

[London_Calling]

Hurrah! The IOC caught a horse.

 

[Melinda]