5 Jamaican athletes have received threats

[rudeboy]

See article on front page. I am not surprised by this. However, we should allow the cases to play out first. Jamaica is a dangerous, but prideful country.

[knite]

Re: 5 Jamaican athletes have received threats

See article on front page. I am not surprised by this. However, we should allow the cases to play out first. Jamaica is a dangerous, but prideful country.

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=2299

[sprintblox]

Re: 5 Jamaican athletes have received threats

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=2299

"German scientists even did studies on Jamaica’s yellow yam and found out it’s complex nature has a molecular structure that mimics steroids."

Are they serious? :roll:

[americantrackfan]

Re: 5 Jamaican athletes have received threats

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=2299

"German scientists even did studies on Jamaica’s yellow yam and found out it’s complex nature has a molecular structure that mimics steroids."

Are they serious? :roll:

Yes. :?

[knite]

LOL....shouldn't have let the secret out...hahahahahahaha :lol:

[rudeboy]

Re: 5 Jamaican athletes have received threats

http://www.trackalerts.com/?p=2299

"German scientists even did studies on Jamaica’s yellow yam and found out it’s complex nature has a molecular structure that mimics steroids."

Are they serious? :roll:

I was told the same thing about 14 years ago. Just before I left Jamaica. The man who told me, is a chemical engineer. I doubted him then, but this information validates what he told me.

[bhall]

Yams do contain a precursor to steroids called diosgenin, although no study has proven the body can convert it into a steroid hormone, according to Jim Duke, a North Carolina ethnobotanist and expert on plants' medicinal properties.

"A lot of herbalists will claim that they will make estrogen, and progesterone and testosterone, but all the chemists say bull-ticky."

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/484793

[guruof track]

Now imagine the word America was substitued for Jamaica...........who would take this serious???

This is becoming comical at this point.

[rudeboy]

What is comical about it? Yam is a natural product. anyone can access it.

[guruof track]

Just like all 5 people drank from the same water bottle theory.

Comedy hour at its finest.

[rudeboy]

Guru -

something is seriously wrong with you. You keep making stuff up. Who said the 5 athletes drank from the same bottle. I don't even know if they are all friends.

[guruof track]

Guru -

something is seriously wrong with you. You keep making stuff up. Who said the 5 athletes drank from the same bottle. I don't even know if they are all friends.

Someone had a theory VERY similiar to it. I'm glad you don't buy it as a possiblity, because I don't think it is plausible either.

But I digress. You guys can continue, I'll just read the comments.......as not to derail a good (comical) thread. :lol:

[TrackDaddy]

This sounds like a propagandist attempt to dissociate Jamaica with the current allegations or to make them seem so foreign that this is a once in a lifetime occurrence.

That article is anything but objective.

Cheating is global and every nation has issues with it.

[onlooker]

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Cheating is global and every nation has issues with it.

Some of us would like to believe this don't we...to make it fit conveniently with our own guilt.

[Speedfirst]

This sounds like a propagandist attempt to dissociate Jamaica with the current allegations or to make them seem so foreign that this is a once in a lifetime occurrence.

That article is anything but objective.

Cheating is global and every nation has issues with it.

Agreed TD...I also feel that when there is this projected notion that a particular country or countries somehow cannot be involved in these types of activities, is really when you open yourself up to scrutiny.

Case in point, with onlookers post. :roll: