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Leaked IAAF doping files: Wada 'very alarmed' by allegations
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says it is "very alarmed" after fresh allegations of suspected doping emerged in a leak of test data.
The Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WRD have obtained access to the results of 12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes.
According to the newspaper, the evidence - which has been seen by the BBC - reveals the "extraordinary extent of cheating" by athletes at the world's biggest events.
Wada's independent commission will investigate the claims in the ARD/WRD documentary Doping - Top Secret: The Shadowy World of Athletics.
Wada president Sir Craig Reedie said his organisation was "very disturbed by these new allegations... which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide".
The files belong to world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), but have been leaked by a whistle-blower.
The Sunday Times and ARD/WRD used two of the world's "foremost anti-doping experts", scientists Robin Parisotto and Michael Ashenden, to review the data.
According to the experts, the database reveals:
A third of medals (146, including 55 golds) in endurance events at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests. It is claimed none of these athletes have been stripped of their medals.
More than 800 athletes - one in seven of those named in the files - have recorded blood tests described by one of the experts as "highly suggestive of doping or at the very least abnormal".
A top UK athlete is among seven Britons with suspicious blood scores.
British athletes - including Olympic champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill - have lost out in major events to competitors who were under suspicion.
Ten medals at London 2012 were won by athletes who have dubious test results.
In some finals, every athlete in the three medal positions had recorded a suspicious blood test.
Russia emerges as "the blood testing epicentre of the world" with more than 80% of the country's medals won by suspicious athletes, while Kenya had 18 medals won by suspicious athletes.
Stars such as Britain's Mo Farah and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt recorded no abnormal results.
Athletes are increasingly using blood transfusions and EPO micro-doses to boost the red cell count.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says it is "very alarmed" after fresh allegations of suspected doping emerged in a leak of test data.
The Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WRD have obtained access to the results of 12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes.
According to the newspaper, the evidence - which has been seen by the BBC - reveals the "extraordinary extent of cheating" by athletes at the world's biggest events.
Wada's independent commission will investigate the claims in the ARD/WRD documentary Doping - Top Secret: The Shadowy World of Athletics.
Wada president Sir Craig Reedie said his organisation was "very disturbed by these new allegations... which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide".
The files belong to world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), but have been leaked by a whistle-blower.
The Sunday Times and ARD/WRD used two of the world's "foremost anti-doping experts", scientists Robin Parisotto and Michael Ashenden, to review the data.
According to the experts, the database reveals:
A third of medals (146, including 55 golds) in endurance events at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests. It is claimed none of these athletes have been stripped of their medals.
More than 800 athletes - one in seven of those named in the files - have recorded blood tests described by one of the experts as "highly suggestive of doping or at the very least abnormal".
A top UK athlete is among seven Britons with suspicious blood scores.
British athletes - including Olympic champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill - have lost out in major events to competitors who were under suspicion.
Ten medals at London 2012 were won by athletes who have dubious test results.
In some finals, every athlete in the three medal positions had recorded a suspicious blood test.
Russia emerges as "the blood testing epicentre of the world" with more than 80% of the country's medals won by suspicious athletes, while Kenya had 18 medals won by suspicious athletes.
Stars such as Britain's Mo Farah and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt recorded no abnormal results.
Athletes are increasingly using blood transfusions and EPO micro-doses to boost the red cell count.
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'suspicious test' seems an odd term.
Conjures up an image of a test tube wearing a fake moustache. |
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What they do is take out 1 pint of blood two months racing and then one week before the race they put that blood back in their system giving them a increased level of the oxygen carrying cells. This is illegal under IAAF rules.
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I don't watch athletics anymore
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So they have a pint taken (hope thy put that to god use).
During the next two months they make up the loss so, in effect, they are full. How the heck do they get the fresh pint in? They might burst! Actually, whilst typing this rubbish, I realise that they will take out another pint first....(and put that to good use too)! A lot of grateful people must be running around like Usain Bolt, and don't be surprised when walking around town if someone does a back flip with a 360 aerial and half pike. |
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....good use, for Christ's sake
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Name and Shame.
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They may remove most of the plasma before re-introducing the oxygen carrying blood cells so as not to over-pressurise blood system.
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The header is completely wrong on several levels.
First it's not a 3rd of medals Second it doesn't apply to the Olympics Third it's about tests that warrant further investigation. The facts according to the article.. It's a third of "endurance events only between 2001 and 2012" it's not all medals and neither does it apply just to the Olympics. Looking at the results more closely it says there were 10 suspicious results amongst Olympic medallists from 2012, which I make just under 200, so that's just over 5%, not 33%. Plus it says that 80% of Russian results were suspicious. Well there 20 Russian medallists in 2012 in athletics, so if all the suspicious results in 2012 were Russian (which they won't be) that's only 50% of Russian suspicious tests in 2012. So the upshot is that athletics was a helluva lot cleaner in 2012 that it was on average between 2001 and 2011. |
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Clearly athletics has a problem. It's had a problem for decades, but its probably the cleanest it's been for 40-50 years now. It's been getting better but far too slowly.
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*off the chart
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Far more money in other sports that aren't perceived to have a problem.
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Lord Coe in full denial mode today - straight from the Blatter / Verbruggen handbook. I wonder why he could be so keen to defend dopers and their enablers from the people trying to expose them
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Am sick of drug cheats in my favourite sport. Sick of paying good money to go to big events (Olympics, Diamond League etc) to have to watch druggies participating, then getting no recompense when they get subsequently busted. Close to giving up on it to be honest.
The can start with the men's 1500m at the London Olympics. Farcical situation where an unheard of Algerian came from nowhere to smash his PB and win gold. During the medal ceremony the next day, I was sat next to possibly the only two people in the stadium wearing Algeria football shirts. I refused to stand for the anthem. The atmosphere was a bit frosty from then on  . Incidentally the Turkish winner of the women's 1500m (a convicted cheat) was subsequently busted again and got a life ban.Athletics has a perfect example of the damage that can be done by sticking their heads in the sand, by looking at cycling. But also the positive example of what can happen if the sport makes a genuine effort to eradicate it. |