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Witness in Track Doping Case Ready to Name Big Names
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/sport ... ng.html?hp
Will it never end?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/sport ... ng.html?hp
Will it never end?
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Indeed.
The article names only Maurice Greene, but says over 2 dozen elite athletes will be named, including Olympians and medal winners. Ugh. It does say MG is the "most" prominent of those to be named, who had not been named before.
Also this fact:
Mr. Greene, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a five-time world champion, has never failed a drug test.
And this:
In her career, Ms. Jones passed more than 160 drug tests.
And this:
The I.A.A.F. performed 3,277 drug tests last year and barred only 10 athletes for doping. -
They key numbers here are how many of those tests were done during winter training and how many of those were unannounced? I suspect most of those tests were during competition and if so, why would anyone expect them to test positive at that time?Originally posted by tjallenComment
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The 3 page article is quite interesting, and everyone should read it.
I note that we hear many of the same things VC says, for example:
“All these people are talented,” Mr. Heredia said. “The thing is they needed an extra boost. It’s a difference between running 10 flat all year, or 9.8 four times a year when you had to.”
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For years, Mr. Heredia said, he helped his clients flout the rules and easily avoided detection. Substances like human growth hormone and the blood booster erythropoietin, or EPO, are still virtually impossible to detect, and “it is still easy to use testosterone” with fast-acting creams, he said.
“You combine all these things — boom! — you get amazing results,” Mr. Heredia said.
These quotes from the NYTimes article mentioned above.Comment
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