Ethiopia is up next for doping bans

[booond]

On front page.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3468428/Ethiopia-set-doping-bans-drug-testers-turn-focus-distance-dominating-nation.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

I'm unsurprised.

[1runner1]

Deja vu Chinese women

[Pakilo]

Not sure what kind of press DailyMail is but they had those bombastic headlines last year before Beijing and not much of it really happened afterwards.

[gh]

think National Enquirer

[jazzcyclist]

Hopefully, only B-list athletes will be implicated. I don't think a sport is hurt that much when second tier athletes are brought down, it is hurt when the Lance Armstrongs and Marion Joneses are brought down.

[tandfman]

Although the Daily Mail is indeed a sensationalist tabloid, this story has been picked up by mainstream media all over the world.

[ExCoastRanger]

I get your point, but I'm sure those B-listers who might be A-listers but for the dopers would disagree.

[jazzcyclist]

I get your point, but I'm sure those B-listers who might be A-listers but for the dopers would disagree.

Of course I want the A-listers to get popped if they're doping, but hopefully they aren't.

[NotDutra5]

Although the Daily Mail is indeed a sensationalist tabloid, this story has been picked up by mainstream media all over the world.

Isn't it sourced from the Daily Mail?

[tandfman]

Isn't it sourced from the Daily Mail?

No.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/29/ethiopia-athletes-under-investigation-doping

[26mi235]

...five of whom are top athletes [Guardian piece]

And there is also Ethiopian-born (and trained?) Aragawi

[NotDutra5]

So we have the "suspicious" test angle again.

[TN1965]

Is this one of the nine under investigation? (And one of the five "top" runners?)

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1034922/ethiopian-tokyo-marathon-winner-negesse-reportedly-fails-drugs-test-for-meldonium

[NotDutra5]

Is this one of the nine under investigation? (And one of the five "top" runners?)

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articl...-for-meldonium

I may be reading too much into it but I thought the implication is that it is.