heywoodu 13,609 Posted July 5, 2021 #1751 Share Posted July 5, 2021 13 hours ago, Grassmarket said: This was discussed during the DL today. The pretext, or reason, is that he has not been involved in the Kenyan drug testing regimen for the required length of time. Don’t know whether this comes from Athletics Kenya or WADA or whoever. That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,720 Posted July 5, 2021 #1752 Share Posted July 5, 2021 2 hours ago, heywoodu said: That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,609 Posted July 5, 2021 #1753 Share Posted July 5, 2021 10 minutes ago, Dragon said: Ugh. It's both so unsurprising and so sad that Athletics Kenya is basically just an awful and incredibly incompetent federation. Quasit 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodge 744 Posted July 5, 2021 #1754 Share Posted July 5, 2021 2 hours ago, heywoodu said: That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified. Maybe they wanted him in the programme so they can give him the good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,353 Posted July 5, 2021 #1755 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Interesting... Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,189 Posted July 5, 2021 #1756 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic. Bermuda will have two athletes then....? intoronto 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,796 Posted July 5, 2021 #1757 Share Posted July 5, 2021 6 hours ago, heywoodu said: That would be rather sad and very irresponsible from Athletics Kenya (again). It's not his responsibility to get tested....it's his responsibility to make sure he doesn't test positive, but being tested is on the federation. On every side this smells like they just don't want him there even though he rightfully qualified. Seemingly Kenya are under a special jurisdiction as a consequence of a long series of unfortunate misunderstandings, contaminated beef, people taking prescriptions meant for their grandmother or her dog etc etc & it is not quite as simple as all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,353 Posted July 5, 2021 #1758 Share Posted July 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, dcro said: Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic. Bermuda will have two athletes then....? All in the name of improved results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,796 Posted July 5, 2021 #1759 Share Posted July 5, 2021 3 hours ago, Dragon said: All too common in African sports where things hum along smoothly enough for three years & eleven months but break down when vouchers for first class air tickets & five star hotel rooms arrive at the Ministry of Sports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerSaxony 205 Posted July 5, 2021 #1760 Share Posted July 5, 2021 11 minutes ago, dcro said: Yeah. Seems like World Athletics started insisting at some point on the universality athletes entering 100 m events. I guess to round up their already controversial universality system. Pathetic. Bermuda will have two athletes then....? Actually, the athlete from Timor Leste who got an universality place for the 100 meters is a 5000m runner. Guess he's not the only one. It's a shame. All that WA/IOC wanna have is as most flags as possible and the pretense of universality - they do not care about the athletes AT ALL. dcro and NearPup 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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