Olive Loughnane set for gold

Slow_Runner

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/loughnane-set-for-gold-after-iaaf-suspends-five-athletes-for-suspected-doping-658850.html

Delighted for her. Sad state of Russian athletics tough.

Ceepo

Slow_Runner wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/loughnane-set-for-gold-after-iaaf-suspends-five-athletes-for-suspected-doping-658850.html

Delighted for her. Sad state of Russian athletics tough.

Delighted for her. I hope Rob gets the 2 bronze medals as well.
That's if the IAAF have the balls.

Tombo2001

So that means we have two world champion walkers.....

That's pretty cool.

Gleedog

Even though they were both beaten by drug cheats, if I was beaten by a cheat, and presented with a medal for a race I done 4/5 years ago, it wouldn't have the same value as winning it right now.

Maybe its because I'm a bit impatient, but it'd nearly mean nothing to me-because on the day, I wasn't good enough (even if I was beaten by a cheat).

Anyone else feel like this?

Great for Irish athletics though.

Tombo2001

Gleedog wrote: »

Even though they were both beaten by drug cheats, if I was beaten by a cheat, and presented with a medal for a race I done 4/5 years ago, it wouldn't have the same value as winning it right now.

Maybe its because I'm a bit impatient, but it'd nearly mean nothing to me-because on the day, I wasn't good enough (even if I was beaten by a cheat).

Anyone else feel like this?

Great for Irish athletics though.

I think its great for Irish athletics, I agree, because it is ultimately recognition. She will be remembered as a World Champion.

How I would personally feel, I don't know - but Rob Heffernan was pretty happy to be awarded a European medal recently.

“This means so much to me, to receive the medal here in Cork in the presence of my family and friends, because without the support of those people I couldn’t have done what I have done in the sport,” said Heffernan.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/other-sports/heffernan-heroics-finally-earn-reward-with-european-bronze-303584.html

Picture the scene if the two of them were awarded the medals as part of the opening ceremony of the Dublin City Marathon for example.

Thud

Gleedog wrote: »

Even though they were both beaten by drug cheats, if I was beaten by a cheat, and presented with a medal for a race I done 4/5 years ago, it wouldn't have the same value as winning it right now.

Maybe its because I'm a bit impatient, but it'd nearly mean nothing to me-because on the day, I wasn't good enough (even if I was beaten by a cheat).

Anyone else feel like this?

Great for Irish athletics though.

She's been robbed of the podium, sponsorship deals, national acclaim, sports council funding etc that she would have got if she'd got the medal on the night so in that sense it's value is less but I'm sure on athletic terms she'll value it around the same, she can now call herself world champion

Tombo2001

Thud wrote: »

She's been robbed of the podium, sponsorship deals, national acclaim, sports council funding etc that she would have got if she'd got the medal on the night so in that sense it's value is less but I'm sure on athletic terms she'll value it around the same, she can now call herself world champion

I hadn't considered the commercial side of it. Do you think this would have been substantial? Its hard to know.

rodge68

She just gave an interview on Off The Ball on Newstalk..such humility and so down to earth..not one bit bitter as she was so happy just to celebrate on the podium..Sounded like such a lovely person.Delighted for her and her family.

runjb

Well worth a listen alright: http://www.newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/Off_The_Ball/Off_The_Ball_Highlights/75762/2/Olive_Loughnane_-_Ireland_4th_Athletics_World_Champion

Rob Heffernan's medal not as clear cut as Russian anti-body claims Seregi Kirdyapkin was clean from May - October 2012. IAAF will rule on this and hopefully overturn that part of their conclusion, and impose a retrospective ban from before the Olympics.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/russian-doping-cases-causes-major-concern-to-iaaf-659060.html

Chivito550

Great discussion on it here: http://jumping-the-gun.com/?p=2687

rom

Tombo2001 wrote: »

Picture the scene if the two of them were awarded the medals as part of the opening ceremony of the Dublin City Marathon for example.

That would be a travesty almost on par on them not getting the medals in the first place with them both being from Cork.

joking aside:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/3-russian-olympic-race-walk-champs-suspended-doping-122923167--spt.html

"In the case of Kirdyapkin, who won the men's 50K, his ban is written to allow his 2012 results from June 12 to Oct. 14 to stand, in between periods in which other results have been annulled.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency general director Ramil Khabriev said in a statement that the periods of the annulled results were chosen for purely scientific reasons."

http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/athletics/1025027-australia-s-jarryd-calls-for-ban-on-russian-athletes-saying-he-was-cheated-out-of-olympic-gold

physiopad

Gutting for Aussie Jared Tallent. Silver medalist in Beijing and London with both gold medalists banned for doping but still have their Olympic titles.

Don't know how he is so calm considering. Beyond farcical

https://soundcloud.com/sen1116/the-run-home-jared-tallent

Ceepo

rom wrote: »

That would be a travesty almost on par on them not getting the medals in the first place with them both being from Cork.

joking aside:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/3-russian-olympic-race-walk-champs-suspended-doping-122923167--spt.html



"In the case of Kirdyapkin, who won the men's 50K, his ban is written to allow his 2012 results from June 12 to Oct. 14 to stand, in between periods in which other results have been annulled.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency general director Ramil Khabriev said in a statement that the periods of the annulled results were chosen for purely scientific reasons."

http://www.insidethegames.biz/sports/summer/athletics/1025027-australia-s-jarryd-calls-for-ban-on-russian-athletes-saying-he-was-cheated-out-of-olympic-gold

IAAF will loose all credibility if they don't ban him outright. Imo

HenrysLeftHand

Olive Loughnane is from Loughrea, Co. Galway.

rom

HenrysLeftHand wrote: »

Olive Loughnane is from Loughrea, Co. Galway.

Loughane was born in 1976 in County Cork, the eldest of seven children. She moved to Carrabane, County Galway with her family when she was a child. She currently lives in Coachford, Cork with her family. Certainly ain't Dublin

rom

Things are looking up for Rob http://balls.ie/athletics/ireland-may-getting-another-bronze-medal-2012-olympics/

eliwallach

rom wrote: »

Things are looking up for Rob http://balls.ie/athletics/ireland-may-getting-another-bronze-medal-2012-olympics/

That article is dated 20 Jan.
So it seems it's not "new" information? Would love if I were wrong....

rom

eliwallach wrote: »

That article is dated 20 Jan.
So it seems it's not "new" information? Would love if I were wrong....

True. I don't know. He posted it 10hrs ago on facebook. I didn't check the date.

NetwerkErrer

The independent today. Can't link so here's a copy and paste.

Boost for Robert Heffernan’s Olympic bronze hopes



There was potentially good news for Robert Heffernan yesterday when the IAAF confirmed they have filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland against the decisions rendered by RUSADA in the cases of six Russian athletes which, if successful, would see the Corkman land Olympic bronze from London 2012.

Heffernan (Togher AC) finished fourth in the 50km race walk in London behind champion Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin who was banned for doping violations on January 20. However, Kirdyapkin’s three-year, two-month suspension was backdated to October 15, 2012, with his results annulled only from the following periods: January 25, 2011 to March 25, 2011, from June 16, 2011 to August 16, 2011, and from April 11, 2012 to June 11, 2012.

That cherry-picking by Russian anti-doping authorities allowed Kirdyapkin to hold on to his gold medal but the IAAF, the world athletics governing body, have appealed this to CAS along with the cases of fellow Russian race walkers Valeriy Borchin, Olga Kaniskina, Sergey Bakulin, Vladimir Kanaykin and Yuliya Zaripova.

The IAAF confirmed in a statement: “The IAAF confirms having filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland against the decisions rendered by RUSADA in the cases of Valeriy Borchin, Olga Kaniskina, Sergey Bakulin, Sergey Kirdyapkin, Vladimir Kanaykin and Yuliya Zaripova. All six cases arose from the IAAF Athlete Biological Passport programme launched in 2009 and had been referred to the Russian authorities for adjudication in accordance with IAAF rules.