World doping news

[Aeglos]

Found this page on ole’ IG just now that looks useful for staying up to date on world doping news.
Also, major LOLs that 55(!) weightlifters across the 2008 and 2012 Olympics have now tested +ve

 

[Aeglos]

Nigerian weightlifter done for doping.
Good thing they didn’t test too many 16 y/old Australian weightlifters back in the day

 

[Satan]

Inside Russia’s Failed Doping Cover-Up (Published 2019)

A World Anti-Doping Agency report outlines how Russia fabricated evidence to try to discredit a whistle-blower.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Aeglos]

Egyptian Weightlifting Coaches Jailed Amid Doping Scandal | BarBend

Egyptian national weightlifting officials Mohamed Moussa and Mohamed Hosni face jail time and charges for supplying banned substances to Egyptian athletes.

barbend.com

 

[Aeglos]

It gets better for weightlifting lol.
#drugtestednotdrugfree

IOC concerned by ‘very serious’ doping allegations in weightlifting

The International Olympic Committee has expressed its concerns over “very serious and worrying” new allegations of doping and corruption in international weightlifting

www.theguardian.com

 

[Aeglos]

Ah the old “my boyfriend’s semen was contaminated”

Canadian canoe star Laurence Vincent Lapointe has been cleared of doping charges

The panel convened by the International Canoe Federation made the decision after it accepted that the 11-time world champion did not knowingly take ligandrol.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

 

[Arctic fox]

Obviously didn't use the "strands in the cable" system.

 

[yaco55]

North America, especially the USA is soft when imposing penalties on athletes who test positive for prohibited substances - Tygart the head of USADA fails to practice what he preaches.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Watching now on the tube
Took me a while to workout how to put subs on lol

 

[Aeglos]

Russian team suspension halved by CAS

https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Media_Release_6689_decision.pdf

Russia’s Doping Ban Is Cut to a Largely Symbolic Two Years (Published 2020)

The ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced a four-year ban to two. It will keep Russian teams — but not necessarily Russian athletes — out of the next two Olympics.

www.nytimes.com

 

[yaco55]

This is no surprise - Politics, funding and influence are important factors in world sport, especially at the Olympics level.

 

[Aeglos]

Now at 61 retrospective positive tests across the Beijing and London Olympics in weightlifting.
According to the post Aug this year was the last they could test old urine samples so unlikely to see any more +be tests.
Suggest there’s a few athletes breathing a big sigh of relief.

 

[sosos]

Why is the testing of stored samples limited by time?

I understand that there might be technical reasons why, for example the samples may lose integrity naturally over the period so results become unreliable.

And there might be financial reasons, as it can't be cheap to maintain the samples.

Are there any other reasons?

 

[Aeglos]

Why is the testing of stored samples limited by time?

I understand that there might be technical reasons why, for example the samples may lose integrity naturally over the period so results become unreliable.

And there might be financial reasons, as it can't be cheap to maintain the samples.

Are there any other reasons?

seems to just be a statute of limitation thing.
technically even Lance Armstrong should have retained 3-4 of his TDF titles because of the time lapse to him getting caught.
just doing a bit of reading now and apparently they destroy samples with adverse findings after the suspension is handed down which is . . . Interesting

 

[yaco55]

seems to just be a statute of limitation thing.
technically even Lance Armstrong should have retained 3-4 of his TDF titles because of the time lapse to him getting caught.
just doing a bit of reading now and apparently they destroy samples with adverse findings after the suspension is handed down which is . . . Interesting

Lance Armstrong would have only lost 2 years of results if he pleaded guilty during the USADA investigation - It was nothing to do with the Statue of Limitations.

 

[Aeglos]

Lance Armstrong would have only lost 2 years of results if he pleaded guilty during the USADA investigation - It was nothing to do with the Statue of Limitations.

there was an 8 year statute until recently when it was increased to 10 years

2015 World Anti-Doping Code

Following on from the first two versions of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), which were introduced in 2004 and 2009 respectively, the global anti-doping community agreed that the latest revision of the Code would take effect on 1 January 2015.

www.wada-ama.org

 

[yaco55]

there was an 8 year statute until recently when it was increased to 10 years

2015 World Anti-Doping Code

Following on from the first two versions of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), which were introduced in 2004 and 2009 respectively, the global anti-doping community agreed that the latest revision of the Code would take effect on 1 January 2015.

www.wada-ama.org

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Others ( which is nearly all ) who co-operated ( pleaded guilty ) with the USADA enquiry received eitherreceived discounted sentences or the conventional two year penalty - Lance assists and pleads guilty, so then under the WADA Code he can only receive a two year penalty - Anyway, USADA as an agency has done little to combat doping over the years - I'd love to be a high-profile USA athlete.

 

[Aeglos]

wonder if it’s more whereabouts violations

Brianna McNeal, Olympic hurdles champ, provisionally suspended

Brianna McNeal, the Rio Olympic 100m hurdles champion, was provisionally suspended after being charged with tampering with part of a doping control process.

www.google.com.au

 

[Aeglos]

Gotta wonder what this person was thinking
Provisionally suspended on Jan 7 yet still travelled to Aus for the open.
to cap things off was on a compromised flight, will serve their 14 day hard quarantine and probably get put on a flight back to Europe without stepping foot on a tennis court!

Plot thickens in tennis ‘photo of the year’

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has rejected an attempt by Ukraine’s world No. 29 Dayana Yastremska to get her doping ban lifted.

www.news.com.au

 

[yaco55]

Yastremska was entitled to travel to Australia under the current rules - You can compete while appealing a provisional suspension - This is standard under the WADA Code.

 

[Aeglos]

Not many violations for Test.
Clears the system too quickly?

Doping practices in international weightlifting: analysis of sanctioned athletes/support personnel from 2008 to 2019 and retesting of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games - Sports Medicine - Open

Background The pervasiveness of doping and findings of anti-doping corruption threaten weightlifting’s position at the 2024 Olympic Games. Analysing the practices of doping in weightlifters could identify patterns in doping that assist in future detection. Methods We analysed publicly available...

sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com

 

[sosos]

Not many violations for Test.
Clears the system too quickly?

Doping practices in international weightlifting: analysis of sanctioned athletes/support personnel from 2008 to 2019 and retesting of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games - Sports Medicine - Open

Background The pervasiveness of doping and findings of anti-doping corruption threaten weightlifting’s position at the 2024 Olympic Games. Analysing the practices of doping in weightlifters could identify patterns in doping that assist in future detection. Methods We analysed publicly available...

sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com

Not sure but I love the retrospective penalties and long term sample storage.

Incredible to read the story of how they are attacking the dopers.

Like all crime, we're never free from it, but we must never give in trying. At Blackcat, they might all be doing it, but eventually some are caught.

 

[sosos]

Why the Tokyo Games do nothing to address Russian doping

The Kremlin has turned what was supposed to be an Olympic ban against Russia into a hashtag and the punchline of a joke.

www.theage.com.au

Russia, China, USA, Australia. I don't believe any of it anymore. I sit and watch the Olympics like I might watch a soap opera.

 

[Aussie in exile]

I wonder how many Chinese participants will be found guilty of any drug taking at these winter Olympics?

 

[TWLS]

I wonder how many Chinese participants will be found guilty of any drug taking at these winter Olympics?

Well the situation with the Russian girl is typical - She gets off because of her age - The Olympic boss with a german name - Bach - is to put it mildly a bit dodgy.