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Nigerian sprinter Grace Nwokocha (PB 10.97 from this year) has been suspended by the AIU for a failed drug test https://twitter.com/aiu_athletics/st...C87cSMjLwrAAAA
Raises several issues for me :
First of all towards the NCAA. Nwokocha was a member of the NC A&T squad, trained by Duane Ross, infamous for his own disgrace as an athlete, and lately for his son's, Randolph, caught tampering with testing process in June. Some may say this is an epiphenomenon, largely dependent on the dubious profil of Ross father, and has nothing to do with the larger scale of college T&F.
Some may note that, (un)surprisingly, those two athletes were quietly doing their thing in the NCAA and problems came later, when they had to face the international circuit and its much less loose anti-doping protocol.
The independent and, let's say it, deficient (and the word convey the idea that this is more by lack of means than lack of will) anti-doping collegiate system, is given too much leeway in my opinion. I regularly see rants about how the WA ranking system is biased towards NCAA athletes. I think they're already awarded more than what they should. As long as the NCAA doesn't abide by the global law, the performances should be considered non-existent.
This case also concerns a Nigerian athlete, once again ...
Raises several issues for me :
First of all towards the NCAA. Nwokocha was a member of the NC A&T squad, trained by Duane Ross, infamous for his own disgrace as an athlete, and lately for his son's, Randolph, caught tampering with testing process in June. Some may say this is an epiphenomenon, largely dependent on the dubious profil of Ross father, and has nothing to do with the larger scale of college T&F.
Some may note that, (un)surprisingly, those two athletes were quietly doing their thing in the NCAA and problems came later, when they had to face the international circuit and its much less loose anti-doping protocol.
The independent and, let's say it, deficient (and the word convey the idea that this is more by lack of means than lack of will) anti-doping collegiate system, is given too much leeway in my opinion. I regularly see rants about how the WA ranking system is biased towards NCAA athletes. I think they're already awarded more than what they should. As long as the NCAA doesn't abide by the global law, the performances should be considered non-existent.
This case also concerns a Nigerian athlete, once again ...
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