Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

I just found this interesting article from By Bob Baum; AP Sports Writer and I thought it might be of interest:Here's an interesting article from AP Sports writer Bob Baum: The top assistant to track coach Trevor Graham gave Justin Gatlin an injection, which he believed to be vitamin B12, two weeks before the world record-sharing sprinter tested positive for steroids. After Randall Evans
 
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Why is he waiting until now to appeal?  So he could make up a fool-proof story??

and do people really inject B12 into them??

B12 has pretty crappy oral viability, so yeah, lots of people inject b12.

It seems Gatlin is 'covering all the bases.' He's taking an unusual approach to getting off the doping violation….admitting that the test was right but that he was sabotaged….either by a masseuse or by injection. What do you believe? [I've added a poll]

I'm always amazed at how many poor athletes get taken advantage of by having someone stick a needle into them without bothering to ask what it is  :barf:

Sarcasm aside, I do believe that Graham is a glorified pusher, somewhere down the line, he had to know what was going into his body. Believe it or not, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, and saying that he is not just a huge idiot that lets random drugs into his body.

Did Dennis Mitchell really use that excuse?

Does it really matter where it came from?

mortac8 - 07 August 2007 05:05 PM

Does it really matter where it came from?

Not to the IAAF by the current rules. If you test positive it doesn't matter how it happened.

davan - 07 August 2007 01:38 PM

Did Dennis Mitchell really use that excuse?

Sprinter DENNIS MITCHELL: a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood
One sleepless night, five beers, four bouts of sex: why doesn't every athlete use this defence?

Mitchell, one of the best-known U.S. sprinters of the 1990s, was nailed for excessively high levels of testosterone in 1998, but said that was caused by a long night of horizontally jogging with his wife, fuelled by the magic of five beers, on the eve of the test. Good enough for us, declared the U.S. Track and Field Association, which cleared Mitchell only to have that ruling overturned by track and field's international body.
From: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/10-doping-excuses.html

mike - 07 August 2007 05:48 PM

mortac8 - 07 August 2007 05:05 PM

Does it really matter where it came from?

Not to the IAAF by the current rules. If you test positive it doesn't matter how it happened.

Maybe he had a legitimate need for test.  I bet he had an anti-aging doc diagnose hyopgonadism caused by his ADD medication.    In fact, he's probably ADD, narcoleptic, asthmatic, AND hypogonadal so he's good for adderall, modafinil, ephedrine, and test.  THAT would be my excuse :eureka:

mortac8 - 07 August 2007 06:06 PM

Maybe he had a legitimate need for test.  I bet he had an anti-aging doc diagnose hyopgonadism caused by his ADD medication.    In fact, he's probably ADD, narcoleptic, asthmatic, AND hypogonadal so he's good for adderall, modafinil, ephedrine, and test.  THAT would be my excuse :eureka:

I would add that I'm also diabetic and short of stature which explains my insulin and HGH use.

Why complicate things?  Let's go with the old Flip Wilson excuse:  "The Devil made me do it."

:thumbdown:

Gatlin is clearly pulling out all stops (can you blame him….especially in the event that he actually is innocent and / or was sabotaged) to try to run in 2008. I wonder how he'd be accepted if he were reinstated in time to compete next year. I don't think that will happen but it would be an interesting case study on the effects of taking a year off from world class training. We saw what happened to Marion when she took time off….it took about 3 years to return to top level form and even then she was way off her old form (although that could have been due to other reasons as well).

mike - 08 August 2007 06:38 AM

I don't think that will happen but it would be an interesting case study on the effects of taking a year off from world class training. We saw what happened to Marion when she took time off….it took about 3 years to return to top level form and even then she was way off her old form (although that could have been due to other reasons as well).

This might be an isolated case, but look at Matt Hemingway back in 2000. He hadnt competed since about '97 and came back to jump 2.38 that year! Over that time he did play b-ball almost everyday though.

mike - 08 August 2007 06:38 AM

Gatlin is clearly pulling out all stops (can you blame him….especially in the event that he actually is innocent and / or was sabotaged) to try to run in 2008. I wonder how he'd be accepted if he were reinstated in time to compete next year. I don't think that will happen but it would be an interesting case study on the effects of taking a year off from world class training. We saw what happened to Marion when she took time off….it took about 3 years to return to top level form and even then she was way off her old form (although that could have been due to other reasons as well).

Are we sure he isn't training how he was prior to all the events which have happened?

Well he'd have to have subjected himself to random (and scheduled) tests to be allowed back to contests within 2 years. At least, that's the way every other athlete has had it when they have had a non-life ban.