Alberto Salazar: Mo Farah's former coach banned for four years for doping violations

A pleasant bit of news yhtl we've dabbled on this subject with this guy mentioned strongly in the past,wonder why they've decided to pull the trigger now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfbqqAEKwo

you have to laugh

Yeap! you get it

And Mo Farah has never doped either, not ever

survival?

THOUGHT OCCURS why would you spend all that time,money,put your career,reputation on the line drugging athletes who still could,nt get close to your top man,

Just Dope It

This is another from the BBC that adds a bit more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfbqqAEKwo

The Briton has never failed a drugs test and has always strongly denied breaking any rules.

Neither has Lance Armstrong or Marion Jones

All of them are at it

You've even got male athletes competing against the women now

Unless WE as a society do something about it nothing will change, these rich elites wont do a thing because of the power and money it brings, of course if we do try to do something, bring about some common sense we are now deemed "domestic terrorists"... hence the police needing to be put in their place before any uprise occurs.

I assume they're all on something.  Which is sad really.  You win a race.  Whoopy doo.  Sport is taken far too seriously.  It's entertainment, that is all.  Yes, it's awash with money but it's still nothing more than an amusement.  I was in Harrogate last week, which was bad timing as the bike ride was on.  The public toilets were closed, I assume to prevent the cyclists popping in for a quick jab.  Another thing, I'd never seen so many police motorbikes in one place.  There were over 20 of them parked up in the square.  Good to see they had nothing better to do.

Looking back at the old documentaries/records nothing's real since just after ww2 testosterone was being used although cruder versions by Eastern Europeans in the late 40s and was used in the war by German soldiers as well as crack cocaine,the Russian lifters and wrestlers had it sorted by the 1952 Olympics I'm not even sure a man could break 10 seconds for the 100m and a woman 11 seconds clean anymore.

When you put it in those terms yikes

On the drug cheat subject the BBC had a Linford feature today where he denied his guilt and was laughing etc. he's got to be the biggest liar on planet earth.
All anyone needs to do is unfreeze some of his samples and Carbon Isotope ratio test them same for everyone else who can be suspected of using synthetic testosterone.

FWIW when Linford's test was allowed to stand by UK Athletics (rest of the positives over the years were surpressed as he was our star although they admitted a ginseng stimulant in 88 but he was on test also) he was 39 had been retired and was basically finished.
Doug Walker got banned for the same drug and his readings were between 10 and 13 on the scale for Nandrolone when the limit was 2.
Linfords was 200 and Linford still denies it laughing as if nothings happened you couldn't make it up.

Indeed

linford i would say still on the stuff, dont keep body like that without them.Yes it was obvious to anyone that linfordwas on the stuff, was nowhere near winning olympics gold and then was near or over 30 when he was champion .   


Christie faced an International Olympic Committee disciplinary hearing at the 1988 Seoul Olympics because of an adverse drug test for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine after he ran in the heats of the 200m. He escaped sanction after the committee voted by a margin of 11 to 10 and gave Christie "the benefit of the doubt."[7][8] Christie argued that he had taken it inadvertently in ginseng tea.

At the 1994 European championships staged in Helsinki, where British team captain Christie won his third European 100 m title, he was caught up in a doping controversy after Solomon Wariso, a 400 m runner making his international championship debut, tested positive for the stimulant ephedrine. Wariso revealed that he had used an over-the-counter pick-you-up called "Up Your Gas", which Christie had bought at a Florida pharmacy.[9]

In 1998, less than six months before his first positive drug test, Christie won a libel action against the journalist John McVicar. McVicar had insinuated in a satirical magazine that Christie's remarkable rise from 156th in the world to triumph at an age when he should have been in decline could only have been achieved through performance-enhancing drugs. The jury found in Christie's favour by a 10–2 majority. The judge ordered that McVicar should be bound by an injunction restraining him from accusing Christie of taking banned substances. The modest £40,000 damages awarded were outweighed by the legal costs that Christie incurred to bring the case. After the judgment, McVicar called Christie "The Judy Garland of the 100 metres", referring to the emotion that Christie had given before the court.[10]

In February 1999, Christie competed in an indoor meet in Dortmund, Germany. A routine unannounced drug test found the banned substance nandrolone. After a six-month delay, a disciplinary hearing was convened by the British Athletic Federation which found Christie to be not guilty. But the IAAF overruled and confirmed a two-year suspension. He was found to have more than 100 times normal levels of the metabolites of nandrolone in his urine. Various explanations were offered to explain the results, including eating avocado, or using nutritional supplements.[11][12][13] The IAAF rejected that explanation and gave Christie a two-years ban from athletics, despite UK Athletics feeling that there was reasonable doubt whether the drug had been taken deliberately, a decision which ignored the usual drug testing principle of "strict liability".[14]

Christie has always denied any wrongdoing. "If I took drugs there had to be a reason to take drugs. I had pretty much retired from the sport." Furthermore, he denied that his physique was gained through drug use and promoted an anti-steroid approach: "It does not follow that all athletes who are big take drugs... Only by testing all athletes will the sport be kept clean of drugs."[15]

Christie was banned for life from the British Olympic Association, who announced that Christie would not be accredited for any future Olympic Games, in accordance with their regulations. The ban also resulted in Puma opting not to continue Christie's £100,000 sponsorship contract. Three years earlier, at the Atlanta Olympics, Christie had worn contact lenses embossed with the Puma logo at the press conference preceding the 100 m final.[16] Reebok had paid $40 million to be the official sponsor, and Christie's actions were seen as ambush marketing and a breach of Olympic rules on the wearing of sponsor's logos by athletes.[17]

American double Olympic champion Conor Dwyer is to retire from swimming after being given a 20-month doping ban.

The 30-year-old tested positive for an anabolic agent in three out-of-competition urine samples in November and December last year.

He was found to have had testosterone pellets inserted in his body, the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) said.

"My doctor assured me that the United States Olympic Committee had approved the treatment," said Dwyer.

"Regardless of the result of the arbitration ruling, I have decided to retire from swimming to pursue other professional interests.

Dwyer said he was following a doctor-prescribed medical treatment that he did not realise contained the banned substance testosterone and noted that the panel said in its report that he was not significantly at fault for the violation.