Christine Ohuruogu

[Subby]

**** that if she thinks she'll be allowed back into the olympic team

the athletics federation will bottle it....be wanting more money so will let her go and hope she wins....then she'll get caught using drugs or forgetting to go to a test and bob's your uncle....we'll be a laughing stock again

[kemm1]

**** that if she thinks she'll be allowed back into the olympic team

the athletics federation will bottle it....be wanting more money so will let her go and hope she wins....then she'll get caught using drugs or forgetting to go to a test and bob's your uncle....we'll be a laughing stock again

Athletics are held to a much higher standard and test far more than most other sports. Didn't Davids actually TEST positive for performance enhancing drugs and only got suspended a few games or something? Where was the ****ing outrage there. Wenger also admitted that Vieira went 4 YEARS without getting tested, what's your opinion on that.

The level of drug use in athletics is NO HIGHER than other sports, there is just more testing.

I say congrats to Chrisitine and I hope to see her in the Olympics next season, there is no evidence that she is dirty.

Take a look at this article, this NFL player admits taking human growth hormones and get's a 4 game suspension!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2999994

[Neil Young]

Davids got a four month ban which ran over the summer, resulting in him missing very little football.

link

Of course, maybe drug-taking only happens in Italian football.

[dww]

Davids got a four month ban which ran over the summer, resulting in him missing very little football.

link

Of course, maybe drug-taking only happens in Italian football.

There was a brief spate of positive around then wasn't there, mostly Dutch players if I remember correctly? All of their punishments were pathetic and for once the FA looked good considering its handling of Rio.

[Neil Young]

There was a brief spate of positive around then wasn't there, mostly Dutch players if I remember correctly? All of their punishments were pathetic and for once the FA looked good considering its handling of Rio.

Couto, etc. You didn't click the link, did you, Dave?

I don't think the Ferdinand decision was too bad actually, given it was a first offence.

[dww]

Couto, etc. You didn't click the link, did you, Dave?

I don't think the Ferdinand decision was too bad actually, given it was a first offence.

Nope

All though it missed the players I remember which were Jaap Stam and Frank De Boer.

The Ferdinand decision would have been fine if it was in some way set as a standard. The decisions related to drugs both performance enhancing and recreational and with respect to testing in the lower leagues seem all but completely random.

[Neil Young]

Nope

All though it missed the players I remember which were Jaap Stam and Frank De Boer.

The Ferdinand decision would have been fine if it was in some way set as a standard. The decisions related to drugs both performance enhancing and recreational and with respect to testing in the lower leagues seem all but completely random.

Maybe Stam and de Boer (I'd forgotten about him - didn't he clone himself anyway? Surely that's not legal) were at a different time.

It does seem a mess although I confess I don't follow it closely.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

The players isn't tested often enough.

Every player should be tested once a month, at least in the PL. They can afford it IMO so why not do it?

The reason to why so many athlets and cyclist tests positive is because they are tested very often compered to other sports.

I love how Skandos translate the present tense into English. My Swedish mate used to send me texts like this:

"He arrives in Copenhagen and he takes the 14:05 train from Hamburg." What he meant to say was "I will arrive", but I've seen this mistake made quite a lot.

Back on topic.

I seriously doubt that any professional athlete with a manager/agent does not have their performance enhanced by one substance or another.

[Fiddy]

I'm normally very sceptical about these things but actually believe she is innocent and deserves a fair chance.

It's not like the Ferdinand case where the testers were actually at ManUres training ground, told him he was to be tested, then he 'forgot' they were there. Very suspicious and he deserved his 8month ban....

In athletics as someone has mentioned you have to tell the testers where you are, for one hour of the day, 5 days out of seven. Apparently for the third missed test she went to the track she trained at and there was a school sports day there so they had to go and train somewhere else. The testers turned up and obviously she wasnt there. She didnt even know the testers had turned up til a week later and hence that she'd missed a test. She was tested by blood sample a week before also and no drugs found.

Now is it just me or couldnt a better system be implemented. I mean in todays modern age surely a contact number for the athlete and coach might be useful. Hence if the testers turn up and the athlete isnt there they can at least ring and say..'where the **** are you!', allowing the athlete to return or meet the testers that day.

Even Darren Campbell ( the moaning slow ****) believes her and he's the first to condemn anyone. In fact he thinks that anyone who has ever beaten him must be on drugs he's such an arrogant dick.

Good to see there's at least a few people on this thread who have some idea what they're on about and the circumstances

AF for example seems under the misguided impression that she just decided not to turn up for/ran away from, 3 tests, 'proof of cheating'. IMO she was just a victim of circumstance and possibly her being a bit disorganised, nothing more sinister. From what I read the other day practically every athlete has missed at least one test in a similar way, and a lot are on two which means they're walking a tightrope. The BOA or whoever can see how ridiculous this situation is (it's far stricter than in other countries) hence the fact they're now looking into changing the system, or at least allowing athletes to specify times after 7PM when they could pretty much guarantee being at home

[The incredible igor]

Christine Ohuruogu is a cheat. Just like Michelle Smith is a cheat. Anyone that tries cheating in sport should be banned for life.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

So she got herlife time ban lifted how many times do you need to miss a drugs test to actually get a real punishment for it