Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Orangehair43 285]

15 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Thing about Dwain was that he was actually punished far more harshly than any other athlete of his own or this era.  He had to pay back all his winnings, had all his medals annulled, was forbidden from all Diamond League meets for life & served a full two year ban.  After his ban he was only allowed to run in Championship races for which he had qualified through the British trials. 

 

When does that ever happen now?  No-one ever pays back their winnings, only results from one year are cancelled, medals from previous years still stand & the Diamond League & other commercial circuits welcome all dopers back with open arms and full wallets.

That only happened as he admitted to the BBC what date he started using the drug  - he still has his medals from the 1999 Worlds and 2001 Goodwill games as he claims he didn’t start using it till 2002. When he was initially banned he didn’t lose his 2002 results as he told the IAFF nothing about his 2002 use. 

 

Very few athletes admit to when they started doping. 
 

 

[Grassmarket 4,030]

31 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

And he did say he doped for performance gains. He must be looking at Justin Gatlin soaking up all the Nike cash and think WTF. I have to say I'm not really mad at Chambers anymore. At least he was honest in the end. Put that against Marion Jones who even lied to FBI, she was so far in her denial

And the other thing was: Chambers never complained. He never said it was anyone else's fault. After his ban he happily turned out for Team GB in all those low prestige relays like the European Cup, qualifying races etc and always put in a good job.  Also: he played an extremely useful role every year at the UK trials. Year after year we would get all these over-praised young 100m runners with big egos. At the vital part of the season they would come up against an angry motivated Dwain at the UK trials and every single year he would slice them down & win the title.  In fact, he still turns out at the trials, although he doesn't win anymore!

[Orangehair43 285]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

And the other thing was: Chambers never complained. He never said it was anyone else's fault. After his ban he happily turned out for Team GB in all those low prestige relays like the European Cup, qualifying races etc and always put in a good job.  Also: he played an extremely useful role every year at the UK trials. Year after year we would get all these over-praised young 100m runners with big egos. At the vital part of the season they would come up against an angry motivated Dwain at the UK trials and every single year he would slice them down & win the title.  In fact, he still turns out at the trials, although he doesn't win anymore!

I met him once back around the time he was undertaking legal action against the BOA. He was quite friendly.

 

[JonPhi 250]

Dominican Republic is also reinstated, so Germany is out.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Apparently it’s impossible to get DSQ in a relay nowadays…

 

The  getting reinstated is a mockery of the sport. I’m sorry, but at the Olympic Games, you should full well know how to find the proper exchange zone on your own. I get that it was likely an honest mistake, and I feel bad for the athlete, but WA shouldn’t be reinstating teams at this level for things like this.

[Orangehair43 285]

The BBC highlights show points out the issue also occurred during the second heat and it affected Brazil in that race. 

[Monzanator 4,768]

2 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

The BBC highlights show points out the issue also occurred during the second heat and it affected Brazil in that race. 

 

We all know if Brazil was the only DQ team nobody would give a damn about it But once they decided to re-instate USA everyone else went for a free ride.

[Monzanator 4,768]

False start in women's 400H heat Nobody DQ.

[intoronto 6,410]

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

 

 

 

Part of Nigeria's brilliant tactics @hckošice?