ICTChris Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 A German TV documentary has been broadcast, containing allegations that the majority of athletes selected to represent Russia use banned substances. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/30324812 Several Olympic gold medalist are implicated in this. What does everyone think of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Psychosis Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Has the potential to be the biggest doping scandal ever, if true. I don't follow athletics all that closely. Will be interesting to see what proof the Germans have, I guess they wouldn't have run the broadcast unless they were fairly confident that they were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 If anyone knows anything about systematic doping, it would certainly be the Germans. East Germans in particular. For that reason alone I would imagine them to be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Not proof of systematic doping by any means, but possibly no coincidence that it was a Russian athlete who was stripped of her European gold medal in the 800m in 2012 that saw Lynsey Sharp upgraded from silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 Another leak, this time to the Sunday Times, has exposed seemingly widespreadh use of blood-doping in athletics. Russian athletes are the biggest group implicated but there are a lot of Kenyans with suspicious results and just about every country has some athletes with dodgy results, including the UK. Some of the red blood cell counts were so high that the athletes concerned were at serious risk of health problems due to this, even death. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33752070 It all sounds familiar to those who followed the eventually revelations about doping in cycling. With blood doping it can be difficult to definitively prove that cheating is going on but with the testing you can say almost for certain if someone is being boosted. As in cycling I think that sporting administrators don't want to admit that they have a huge problem as they think it could destroy public confidence in the sport and drive away sponsors, ticket sales etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Seb Coe is making a fool of himself over the Sunday Times/German TV "leak" and story. He questioned the credentials of Michael Ashenden and Robin Parisotto, two of the most prominent anti-doping experts. Their response was superb and exposed both his ignorance and hypocrisy. What is he afraid of? The IAAF is like the UCI under Verbruggen and McQuaid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 London marathon hit by doping scandal - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33836491. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 IAAF have been rescreening results from the 2005 and 2007 World Championships http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33867962 I think re-screening is a good method to discourage drug use. I wonder who has failed the tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Seb Coe voted head boy of IAAF. Will anything change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Seb Coe voted head boy of IAAF. Will anything change? Not much if his terrible and predictable dismissal of the Sunday Times' doping reports is typical of his attitude. His dissing of Michael Ashenden was an utter disgrace. Athletics, swimming, tennis and football have huge doping problems but the authorities will not admit it. Coe's election just means that the IAAF will just carry on as before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 The majority of all athletes are on banned substances especially sprinters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 .aaaannddd there is the womens 100m final just won by a previously banned drug cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 The majority of all athletes are on banned substances especially sprinters I wouldn't say especially sprinters. I'd imagine athletes in sports with less vigorous testing, like rugby and tennis, have a higher proportion of players who are at it and on stronger stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds are Forever Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I wouldn't say especially sprinters. I'd imagine athletes in sports with less vigorous testing, like rugby and tennis, have a higher proportion of players who are at it and on stronger stuff. I'd say it's more related to the skill level of the sport. Talentless, endurance based sports will be full of cheats as any mug who dopes enough can be succesful. Sports like Tennis, whilst obviously having some cheats, wont have the same level of doping as athletics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Looks like the shit is about to hit the fan! WADA about to release they're report into the IAAF and it doesn't sound as though they're going to pull any punches. Russians apparently to be suspended from international competitions http://bbc.in/1QlYYZW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarto Mutiny Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 It's those Russians who spent all that time doping but still couldn't beat Paula Radcliffe I feel sorry for. They should demand their money back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Coe is up to his kneck aswell,asleep on the job?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Got to hand it to channel 4 news earlier who went completely off the scale on the irony meter. Studio guest to discuss the current doping scandal? Linford Christie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky88 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 It's those Russians who spent all that time doping but still couldn't beat Paula Radcliffe I feel sorry for. They should demand their money back.I wonder how Paula Radcliffe broke the marathon world record in those circumstances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 I wonder how Paula Radcliffe broke the marathon world record in those circumstances? Cause she wasn't setting records in Athens anyway, when she saw the medals disappearing off down the road. Mind you, this scandal's taking the heat off the Brit's & Yanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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