iaaf world championships 2017
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@Salacious-Crumb said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@mikedogz said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Bolt third, New talent Justin Coleman Second and Justin Gatlin First in the mens 100m. In my mind there is an Asterix by Gatlins name because of his drug cheat history.
If Bolt, the greatest of all time, can accept the result and plaudit the winner, I see no reason for anybody else being so churlish, cynical and small-minded as to deny Gatlin his victory. They lined up, they ran, he won. They drug-tested, he passed. Bolt didn't get the win, but he walks away with even more grace and class. Pity his supporters can't follow his lead and do the same.
Actually, the reason I'm not a supporter of Bolt and am pretty cynical about most sports is precisely because of people like Justin Gatlin. Drug takers have cast a long shadow over sport for their own aggrandizement and enrichment. So fuck those guys.
So I'll certainly wear "cynical" - but I'm inclined not to wear "churlish" and I'm certainly not going to wear "small-minded".
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@Chris-B. said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Actually, the reason I'm not a supporter of Bolt and am pretty cynical about most sports is precisely because of people like Justin Gatlin. Drug takers have cast a long shadow over sport for their own aggrandizement and enrichment. So fuck those guys.
List below of the fastest 100 m times ever. Drug cheats ruled out in red. Basically, you have to believe that Bolt, clean, out-ran everyone else in history by a fair margin (>0.2s), while they were doing drugs.
It's like Lance who was clean when he beat Jan Ullrich, the cyclist of the generation, while Jan was doping. Oh wait, hang on, Lance was juiced as well.
Fark me, I"m getting cynical in my old age.
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@Rapido said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@Siam said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@dogmeat I definitely believe he was mate 😊
Fresh Up.
Note to self: Never take Rapido angling
"I see a fish, you want me to throw stones at it so you can see it too?"
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@nzzp said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Also, this is interesting and seems to sum up where my cynical brain is at.
https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e
PS: stole the list above from Reddit. Fair play to source that shit.
Great read, and presented this way it certainly makes you think 'how gullible am I to fall for this again?'
The only thing I'm holding on to is Bolt has had so many winner's tests over a long period of time, with him as an athlete under different training regimes and 'masters', that for only him to slide through undetected seems very implausible.
Or is he 'too big to fail?'
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@MiketheSnow said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@nzzp said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Also, this is interesting and seems to sum up where my cynical brain is at.
https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e
PS: stole the list above from Reddit. Fair play to source that shit.
Great read, and presented this way it certainly makes you think 'how gullible am I to fall for this again?'
The only thing I'm holding on to is Bolt has had so many winner's tests over a long period of time, with him as an athlete under different training regimes and 'masters', that for only him to slide through undetected seems very implausible.
Or is he 'too big to fail?'
That's the worry isn't it? We all want him to be clean so badly. Are there too many vested interests? I really hope this isn't the case. The thing I cling to is that he could have retired after Rio with his position cemented in, why risk things further when he'd already accomplished so much? He didn't look like he was going to break any records again.
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@Catogrande said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@MiketheSnow said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@nzzp said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Also, this is interesting and seems to sum up where my cynical brain is at.
https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e
PS: stole the list above from Reddit. Fair play to source that shit.
Great read, and presented this way it certainly makes you think 'how gullible am I to fall for this again?'
The only thing I'm holding on to is Bolt has had so many winner's tests over a long period of time, with him as an athlete under different training regimes and 'masters', that for only him to slide through undetected seems very implausible.
Or is he 'too big to fail?'
That's the worry isn't it? We all want him to be clean so badly. Are there too many vested interests? I really hope this isn't the case. The thing I cling to is that he could have retired after Rio with his position cemented in, why risk things further when he'd already accomplished so much? He didn't look like he was going to break any records again.
Messiah Complex? Drinking his own Kool-Aid?
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@MiketheSnow Ha! Could be either but he comes across as a bit too grounded. Maybe I'm just looking for reasons to believe he's clean.
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@Catogrande said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@MiketheSnow Ha! Could be either but he comes across as a bit too grounded. Maybe I'm just looking for reasons to believe he's clean.
Me too.
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@Catogrande said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@MiketheSnow said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@nzzp said in iaaf world championships 2017:
Also, this is interesting and seems to sum up where my cynical brain is at.
https://medium.com/@tomnew/usain-bolt-lance-armstrong-and-the-duck-test-303b7b891e7e
PS: stole the list above from Reddit. Fair play to source that shit.
Great read, and presented this way it certainly makes you think 'how gullible am I to fall for this again?'
The only thing I'm holding on to is Bolt has had so many winner's tests over a long period of time, with him as an athlete under different training regimes and 'masters', that for only him to slide through undetected seems very implausible.
Or is he 'too big to fail?'
That's the worry isn't it? We all want him to be clean so badly. Are there too many vested interests? I really hope this isn't the case. The thing I cling to is that he could have retired after Rio with his position cemented in, why risk things further when he'd already accomplished so much? He didn't look like he was going to break any records again.
I think he definitely is too big to fail. I think it is likely he's tested positive already, and JADCO have covered it up.
JADCO have been shown to be, at best, incompetent (No blood tests! No out of competition testing!) and at worst PED-complicit. It pretty convenient that their period of total non-compliance with WADA standards just happened to coincide with a hugely medal-laden era in Jamaican athletics, a situation that has since normalised.
Some will view this as tinfoil-hat stuff, fair enough, but sadly there is precedent for this. In 1988 Carl Lewis, the Usain Bolt of the era (an era when athletics was much more popular), tested positive for steroids at the US Olympic Trials, and USATF covered it up ahead of the Seoul games happening two months later.
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@Catogrande said in iaaf world championships 2017:
@TeWaio I want to unlike that post because it plays upon my fears.
@TeWaio shares my cynicism
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Great evening of action for 'minor' and major disciplines.
W Javelin and M Pole Vault were both right down to the wire.
Expected result at M 400m but controversy leading into it.
Barnstorming M 800m and M 3000m Steeplechase
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@antipodean I have that on my watch list...
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Just read a follow up article on Stuff about Tom Walsh. Apparently Crouser protested a second time, then turned up to the track in his podium gear. The three medallists didn't know what the fuck was going on, literally right up until the ceremony.
Crouser sounds like a right prick.
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It's like there's not enough cameras to cover both GB celebrating and Bolt injured.
So GB relay team go and celebrate 50m back down the strait just metres away from the huddle around the prone Bolt. Get it all in one camera shot.
Very helpful. Almost like the producer is directing them.