Leaked IAAf report on doping

Myles Splitz wrote: »

Link to the followup documentary

Lovely thank u.

http://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/videos/geheimsache-doping-engl-version-100.html

shels4ever wrote: »

kimmage giving away a name on newstalk was fairly funny.

Who did he name?

BBC Sport wrote:

A top UK athlete is among seven Britons with suspicious blood scores.

Seems strange that the UK media reports have been quick to exonerate Farah and Ennis-Hill but not their other athletes. If I was a 'top UK athlete' and I was clean I'd be unhappy that others were confirmed as not being involved but not me. After all, there's only two or three other athletes out there that would fit that billing.

token56 wrote: »

The timing of this just before the World Championships will hopefully make it all the more damaging. I do think professional athletics needs a massive fall before it can become perceived as a clean and fair sport again.

I wonder will having someone like Seb Coe at the head of the IAAF make a difference. It seems like the problem involves so many organisations it probably wont.

Football, Rugby and Tennis are perceived as clean, despite the reality that they are as dirty, if not more dirty that athletics.

Chivito550 wrote:

Quit the suspense. Just tell us who Kimmage named. It's not breaking the charter as it is not our speculation, just reporting what Kimmage said.

Don't think he actually named the person. I can't really be confident. Was fighting the wind at that stage. He alluded to the fact that they take part in celebrity game shows etc. Something like that! Available on podcast.

siochain wrote: »

Wasn't it 3% of those tested ?

Yeh, but with their country being 12 times bigger, you'd imagine there would be significantly more tests taking place there than here, in an absolute sense.

A complete non story. 1/3 athletes, suspicious tests. Give it a rest and get back to us when something actually happens.

For me the the worst part of this story is that it was leaked from iaaf. And in there statement the they say they will do every thing to protect there privacy policy. Which on the face of it sounds fine but it's the same as what the cycling federation done in previous times. I'm not saying that all of these suspicious test should automatically be banned but there seems to be a lack of transparency that the iaaf need to take there head out if the sand and stand up and be counted.
Yes of course there is a drug problem in athletics but brushing it under the carpet is not the answer.

In there defense for hiding the issue some of the biggest sports have been hiding it for years with a perceived it's not a problem in our sport and getting away with it.
In a recent report Golf came out as the highest % of failed test per tested people and the media didn't or chose not to make to much of it. Last year the highest % was Rugby again there was nothing made of it in the media.
Sorry can't link the report at the moment but a quick search will find it.