Athletic World Champs London 2017

[TheKingObv 10,646]

Just celebrated Gatlin winning. Buzzing. 

[blueballss 2,969]

shockin..bolt still getting all tv coverage

[TheKingObv 10,646]

Gatlin has won and they're showing Bolt

Pathetic

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

Gatlin is a junkie bastard drugs cheat. Shouldn't even be there.

[Blue Nosed Babe 20,695]

Would have preferred anyone but drug cheat Gatlin to win. 

[keithgersbear 3,225]

If Gatlin won clean, then fuck what anyone says. Deal with it. 

[TEFTONG 60,131]

The pee pee test after the race will be interesting..

But to be fair Bolt has been up his own arse for too long now...

The boy Coleman looks like he could dominate for a few years now..

[Blue Nosed Babe 20,695]

7 minutes ago, TEFTONG said:

The pee pee test after the race will be interesting..

But to be fair Bolt has been up his own arse for too long now...

The boy Coleman looks like he could dominate for a few years now..

Coleman looked good. 

[TheKingObv 10,646]

Convinced Coleman has the best first 30m in history. It's ridiculous, race after race.

[jackg93 441]

Got tickets for the relay heats next week. What are chances these guys will be in heats or will they save them just for final? Was reading somewhere bolt may be rested for example 

[don logan 8,068]

Feel sorry for big Usain. Didn't go according to the script. Party time.

[dummiesoot 16,006]

We witnessed the end of an era, a guy that transcended his sport, much like Ali did. Win or lose the coverage was always going to be like that. Perhaps the greatest athlete in history,  his record and popularity speak for itself.

Gatlin was a cheating cunt, caught not once but twice, that should have been a sine die ban.

[left winger 14,202]

5 minutes ago, dummiesoot said:

We witnessed the end of an era, a guy that transcended his sport, much like Ali did. Win or lose the coverage was always going to be like that. Perhaps the greatest athlete in history,  his record and popularity speak for itself.

Gatlin was a cheating cunt, caught not once but twice, that should have been a sine die ban.

Yeah, should have been sine die for the second one. First one - another chance is ok.

[JamieD 18,949]

2 hours ago, dummiesoot said:

We witnessed the end of an era, a guy that transcended his sport, much like Ali did. Win or lose the coverage was always going to be like that. Perhaps the greatest athlete in history,  his record and popularity speak for itself.

Gatlin was a cheating cunt, caught not once but twice, that should have been a sine die ban.

The first ban was for medication he had been taking since he was a kid. Still a doping violation, but they accepted it wasn't intended for performance enhancement. 

[left winger 14,202]

55 minutes ago, JamieD said:

The first ban was for medication he had been taking since he was a kid. Still a doping violation, but they accepted it wasn't intended for performance enhancement. 

Would he not have been able to get an exemption for that, one of those TUEs? 

[JamieD 18,949]

24 minutes ago, left winger said:

Would he not have been able to get an exemption for that, one of those TUEs? 

He didn't need one, prescribed amphetamines for ADD weren't banned except in competition, and supposedly he would usually stop taking them before competition, and did in the instance where he tested positive too.

 

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(1) Gatlin was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) at the age of nine and had been taking prescribed medication for ADD ever since.

(2) From the age of 14 onwards, Gatlin’s condition was treated with Adderall. Adderall contains amphetamine which, in 2001, was permissible for out-of-competition use but prohibited in-competition.

(3) Gatlin was open about his ADD and had disclosed his use of Adderall to his doctor at the University of Tennessee. Consistent with the advice then given by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and USA Track & Field (USATF) to athletes with ADD, Gatlin would typically stop taking his medication a few days before his competitions.

(4) Aged 19, Gatlin competed at the USATF Junior National Championships on 16 and 17 June 2001. As was his usual practice, Gatlin stopped taking his medication approximately three days before the start of the competition.

(5) Gatlin underwent doping control tests on both days. Small amounts of amphetamine were detected in both samples. The sample collected on 17 June 2001 contained even less amphetamine than the sample collected on 16 June 2001. USADA and the AAA Panel both agreed that the small and decreasing amounts of amphetamine detected in his samples were consistent with Gatlin’s assertion that he had stopped taking his medication while still out-of-competition.

The AAA Panel was emphatic in its ruling that Gatlin was ‘certainly not a doper’ and that his violation was ‘at most, a technical or a paperwork’ violation. The following passage of the decision is particularly noteworthy:

9. This Panel is very concerned that Mr. Gatlin’s reputation not be unnecessarily tarnished as a result of this decision. Anti-Doping rules are like other sporting rules in that sometimes there are adverse consequences even when an athlete is not at fault. The Panel specifically notes that, in this case, Mr Gatlin neither cheated nor did he intend to cheat. He did not intend to enhance his performance nor, given his medical condition, did his medication in fact enhance his performance. At most, his mistake was in not raising his medical condition for a review with the appropriate authorities before the race, instead of after it. The Panel requires that this fact be made clear in any public release describing or relating to this decision.

http://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/demonising-justin-gatlin/

I mean, he might have been at it, and was popping speed for performance enhancement, although I'm not sure what use it would really have in the steroid era except to make you more likely to false start. Carl Lewis was off his tits on stimulants between 1987 and at least 1988 and he got repeatedly schooled by Ben Johnson. But in any case, even if he was cheating in 2001 with the amphetamines, that was not the finding of the authorities, and THAT'S why he didn't get a life ban for the second doping violation, which was considered to be the first instance where he sought performance enhancement.

[JamieD 18,949]

In fact I hadn't even read that whole article, which makes it clear that even in the second instance, he was not found to have sought performance enhancement, they simply banned him because he couldn't explain why he had the substance in his system. I'm fairly sure he was on steroids for performance enhancement, but failing to prove that, and accepting that his first ban had mitigating circumstances, that's why he didn't get a life ban.

[left winger 14,202]

Scottish lad, Calum Hawkins, in with an outside chance of a medal in the marathon at the moment.

[left winger 14,202]

Finished up with fourth and a personal best - equalling best ever Gb performance in men's world marathon ?

[Blue Nosed Babe 20,695]

9 minutes ago, left winger said:

Finished up with fourth and a personal best - equalling best ever Gb performance in men's world marathon ?

Nice! UK seems to have a good crop of promising young talent.

[left winger 14,202]

Just now, Blue Nosed Babe said:

Nice! UK seems to have a good crop of promising young talent.

Hopefully, the olympics will give us a decent legacy. And the commonwealths, as well.

[Blue Nosed Babe 20,695]

3 minutes ago, left winger said:

Hopefully, the olympics will give us a decent legacy. And the commonwealths, as well.

True. 

[wullyRFC 5,230]

Load of shite but I'd fuck that Katarina Johnson-Thomson with her javelin

[left winger 14,202]

3 hours ago, JamieD said:

In fact I hadn't even read that whole article, which makes it clear that even in the second instance, he was not found to have sought performance enhancement, they simply banned him because he couldn't explain why he had the substance in his system. I'm fairly sure he was on steroids for performance enhancement, but failing to prove that, and accepting that his first ban had mitigating circumstances, that's why he didn't get a life ban.

Even if we assume he deliberately took steroids for the scone ban, he's been treated somewhat hypocritically by the British media and athletic community..

[JamieD 18,949]

1 hour ago, left winger said:

Even if we assume he deliberately took steroids for the scone ban, he's been treated somewhat hypocritically by the British media and athletic community..

Absolutely.