mpjmcevoy 233 Posted July 1, 2021 #1691 Share Posted July 1, 2021 6 hours ago, Makedonas said: Obviously I'm thrilled for Vasiliou, especially since she made a long post yesterday on Instagram about not qualifying and how much she was crying and also originally she said she would retire after Tokyo (pre-covid days). However, I'm really surprised about the Namibians! Does anyone have more information about them? I'm surprised this hasn't really been discussed much. If this is true, if they have dropped the 400, for which one of them was a cast iron gold medal favourite, it pretty much confirms the growing suspicions that we have another two intersex athletes on our hands. The 400 is one of the athletes covered by the Semenya rule. Tellingly, 200m is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 233 Posted July 1, 2021 #1692 Share Posted July 1, 2021 6 hours ago, Olympian1010 said: Right, but Mboma ran a 400m just a few days ago, and set her best time. If she was a DSD athlete, she would have already had to have lowered her testosterone level to compete at that meet, and thus that wouldn’t be a problem for the Olympics. The only thing I can think of is this is the Namibian federation trying to kept an ace(s) up their sleeve for down the line, but even that doesn’t make much sense. This could perhaps also be her coach’s decision. Sometimes coach’s have a set plan for developing their athletes, and so they’ll reject participation in bigger events from time to time in order to follow that plan for success. More likely, given their youth, I suspect, is simply that the coach ran them in the 400m when he probably should not have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldira 76 Posted July 1, 2021 #1693 Share Posted July 1, 2021 If news from tonight. Shacarrie Richardson fails drug test at US trials. rybak and Makedonas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplecast 120 Posted July 2, 2021 #1694 Share Posted July 2, 2021 3 minutes ago, Oldira said: If news from tonight. Shacarrie Richardson fails drug test at US trials. It's only on Jamaican media so far, not yet being reported in the USA. However, its said on Twitter by @OlympicStatman that the Jamaican breaking the story has impeccable credentials. Nickyc707 and Oldira 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 233 Posted July 2, 2021 #1695 Share Posted July 2, 2021 32 minutes ago, Triplecast said: It's only on Jamaican media so far, not yet being reported in the USA. However, its said on Twitter by @OlympicStatman that the Jamaican breaking the story has impeccable credentials. He does, and Sha' mysterious tweeted "I am human" about 6 hrs ago, which gives a lot of credence to this, If she has smoked weed the week of trials, she's a fool. Ban may be very short or even non-existent; the problem will be the invalidation of her trials results. If she is gone, seems likely to be a straight battle between Shelly Anne and Dina in the 100. Also tonight, namibian prodigy Mboma withdrawn from the 400 but not 200, strongly suggesting rumours of another Semenya situation are in fact true. Hell of a night for Athletics fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplecast 120 Posted July 2, 2021 #1696 Share Posted July 2, 2021 12 minutes ago, mpjmcevoy said: He does, and Sha' mysterious tweeted "I am human" about 6 hrs ago, which gives a lot of credence to this, If she has smoked weed the week of trials, she's a fool. Ban may be very short or even non-existent; the problem will be the invalidation of her trials results. If she is gone, seems likely to be a straight battle between Shelly Anne and Dina in the 100. Yes, incredibly stupid. She's young though, but she'll learn a painful lesson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khadidja Aisha 29 Posted July 2, 2021 #1697 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I hope she fails the test, and disqualified all the american team, exept 5, so they are eual to the Russians. heywoodu and Adriano 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,579 Posted July 2, 2021 #1698 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Adriano and hckošice 2 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 327 Posted July 2, 2021 #1699 Share Posted July 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Khadidja Aisha said: I hope she fails the test, and disqualified all the american team, exept 5, so they are eual to the Russians. How can you equate the possible actions of a foolish individual with state sponsored industrial scale cheating? mpjmcevoy, szy123 and Makedonas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Fastovsky 124 Posted July 2, 2021 #1700 Share Posted July 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Nickyc707 said: How can you equate the possible actions of a foolish individual with state sponsored industrial scale cheating? Respect to her. Running so fast while high?? Daaaamn. It's not steroids, really stupid that it's still a rule szy123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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