Flight schedules to Stuttgart [no Jones]

[spy]

You (or even Marion Jones) can fly out of Raleigh-Durham at 3:15pm on Thursday and get to Stuttgart at 9:10am on Friday. Women's 100 meters is the last event on the schedule on Sunday.

How clairvoyant of the organizers!

[The Kitchen Cynic]

Re: Flight schedules to Stuttgart

You (or even Marion Jones) can fly out of Raleigh-Durham at 3:15pm on Thursday and get to Stuttgart at 9:10am on Friday. Women's 100 meters is the last event on the schedule on Sunday.

I hope there's room on the plane for the US sports writers who wouldn't have even thought about covering the Stuttgart meet, but who will now turn it (and perhaps the World Cup as well) into a Marion Jones media circus.

I also hope she chooses not to run those meets, and I'm sure so do the organizers of both meets.

[gh]

IAAF VP Helmut Digel has gone public saying she's eligible to run in Stuttgart "if she asks." (see front page)

[Dave]

Who knows if she is ready to run....

But, damn, it would be great to see Marion run in this meet.

[spy]

And she might even be convinced to claim her spot on the US World Cup team . . . since there's $60K awaiting the winner in Athens.

[gh]

The way Sherone Simpson has been running of late, putting Jones in the race might just mean the U.S. entrant finishes a closer 2nd :-)

Note that if not Jones, the pecking order is
Williams (hurt)
Edwards (running poorly)
Smith (hasn't run since July)
Lee (hasn't run since July)
M. Barber (hasn't run since USATF)
Durst (hasn't been running too badly)

The Ameircan running best of late (typically 2nd to Simpson) is L. Barber, but she didn't run at USATF at all, so I assume she can't be on the team.

[Dave]

The way Sherone Simpson has been running of late, putting Jones in the race might just mean the U.S. entrant finishes a closer 2nd :-)

Note that if not Jones, the pecking order is
Williams (hurt)
Edwards (running poorly)
Smith (hasn't run since July)
Lee (hasn't run since July)
M. Barber (hasn't run since USATF)
Durst (hasn't been running too badly)

The Ameircan running best of late (typically 2nd to Simpson) is L. Barber, but she didn't run at USATF at all, so I assume she can't be on the team.

If she is second, so be it. I would be happy to see her run.

[bad hammy]

My guess is that she would be a bit rusty. Hard to concentrate full time on the track with the PED test hanging over your head.

[tandfman]

My guess is that she would be a bit rusty. Hard to concentrate full time on the track with the PED test hanging over your head.

Yes, but there are rea$on$ she might want to run, even if she is a bit rusty.

[Sprinter_1997]

I wonder if she has been in training since withdrawing from

Zurich. Why did she withdraw? Has anyone arrived at a plausible conclusion?
Would she not owe the public an explanation of that, given her "exoneration."
I would think that the IAAF, based upon the link to their site provided here, is doing everything it can to stall her and make it physically impossible to run this Sunday. Even if she ran, she might pull, with the attention and perhaps very negative crowd vibes (pure conjecture on my part). If the IAAF disputes the test, she's effectively through for this year. My prediction: lawsuit a la Butch Reynolds is coming. The IAAF will pay an enormous undisclosed amount. They cannot play by their own rules in this one.

[gh]

My guess is that she would be a bit rusty. Hard to concentrate full time on the track with the PED test hanging over your head.

Yes, but there are rea$on$ she might want to run, even if she is a bit rusty.

Stuttgart money: $30K, 20K, 12K, 7K, 5K, 4K, 3K, 2K.

Athens money: $30K, 15K, 10K, 7K, 5K, 6K, 2K, 1K

[26mi235]

Re: I wonder if she has been in training since withdrawing f

Zurich. Why did she withdraw? Has anyone arrived at a plausible conclusion?
Would she not owe the public an explanation of that, given her "exoneration."
I would think that the IAAF, based upon the link to their site provided here, is doing everything it can to stall her and make it physically impossible to run this Sunday. Even if she ran, she might pull, with the attention and perhaps very negative crowd vibes (pure conjecture on my part). If the IAAF disputes the test, she's effectively through for this year. My prediction: lawsuit a la Butch Reynolds is coming. The IAAF will pay an enormous undisclosed amount. They cannot play by their own rules in this one.

I am not sure what you mean by this: "If the IAAF disputes the test, she's effectively through for this year"

As I understand it, she is now considered clean. If the IAAF disputes it and brings it to CAS she is OK until the current situation is overturned.

On the other hand, you might mean that promotors will not include her in the meets. I think that it has been indicated that her doing WAF/WCup depend on the qualifications, not the promoters.

[Sprinter_1997]

26mi235--Thanks for the clarification

So, she is ranked third in the 100m and is therefore eligible for Stuttgart.
She cannot be barred from this or any other meet? Is Stuttgart different than other major European meets which refused to contract with her (although she wasn't competitive the last two years, in any case). because it's under the aegis of the IAAF rather than private meet promoters?

[gh]

See new story on front page.... "too soon" to run in Stuttgart, but will be in Athens

[spy]

The lawsuits Butch Reynolds brought against the IAAF

I think that all of them were eventually tossed out, one by one. My recollection is that he made NO collection.