Official 2008 Olympics Thread
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i don´t know if it was talked about before in this thread, but i couldn´t find it in the english coverage, and i was wondering about transatlantic differences in perception here.
the german press and many of the athletes take it as a given that every athlete who made it to the 100m/200m dash finals was doped. they featured sports scientists, athletes, as well as that mexican doping guy who turned witness recently, and alltogether they explained it very convincingly. considering the consistency of the jamaicans´ perfomances over the season, the fact that all finalists came form countries with no existing post-/preseason anti-doping checks (they said us-americans do their training in jamaica as well), the fact that not a single world/olympic champion in the last 15 years has a clean (doping free) career, huge sponsorships as motive, etc. all made for a very convincing conclusion.
i don´t remember this being mentioned in the nytimes, i guess the same applies for the rest of us media then. are the germans just grumpy for sucking at track&field, or is the us media putting a good face on the thing?
- Don't they check right after you get a medal though? I suppose you could be using something they can't find, but that doesn't always happen.Jaline
- always happen. Unless every single person is in on it, which only makes it easier for information to get leaked.Jaline
- they said the doping gets done pre-season, they can´t detect it. the greek team got nailed before the olympics during training, 1-2 weeks later they would have been clean.********
- training, 1-2 weeks later they would have been clean.********
- the mexican guy explained how he had molecualarly altered and then combined several substances for each athlete individually, so that today´s standard tests can´t get a grip.********
- athlete individually, so that today´s standard tests can´t get a grip.********
- I've heard they preserv all test of every single athletes for eight years because they know there's substances who are illegal that tests can't find yet.elektro
- illegal tests can't find them yet.elektro