Christine Ohuruogu - what a legend

[Questions]

The independent committee, headed by leading lawyer Charles Flint QC,

There is no suggestion, nor any grounds for suspicion, that the offence may have been deliberate in order to prevent testing. The omissions are too haphazard for any such suspicion to arise.
"The athlete was tested negative on several occasions during this period and has always co-operated with doping control officers. She did notify changes to her schedule on many occasions but failed in these three instances. Those failures are understandable given all the circumstances.
"Accordingly, if the committee had... a discretion to order a fair penalty, we would have imposed a sanction of three months, consistent with the [World Anti Doping Agency] code. But... the committee is obliged under IAAF rules to impose a fixed penalty of one year's ineligibility."

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The independent committee, headed by leading lawyer Charles Flint QC,

There is no suggestion, nor any grounds for suspicion, that the offence may have been deliberate in order to prevent testing. The omissions are too haphazard for any such suspicion to arise.
"The athlete was tested negative on several occasions during this period and has always co-operated with doping control officers. She did notify changes to her schedule on many occasions but failed in these three instances. Those failures are understandable given all the circumstances.
"Accordingly, if the committee had... a discretion to order a fair penalty, we would have imposed a sanction of three months, consistent with the [World Anti Doping Agency] code. But... the committee is obliged under IAAF rules to impose a fixed penalty of one year's ineligibility."

Absolutely no difference whatsoever - she broke the rules, therefore as guilty as anyone who manlines smack.

 

[Questions]

Absolutely no difference whatsoever - she broke the rules, therefore as guilty as anyone who manlines smack.

Don't be ridiculous. She was punished for her mistakes on failures within testing notifications and was not within the rules but no one within the sport thought she had taken any banned substance......
What has mainlining smack got to do with anything. Performance enhancing is it ?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

What has mainlining smack got to do with anything. Performance enhancing is it ?

heroin addicts are famed for their athletic prowess

 

[atfc village]

heroin addicts are famed for their athletic prowess

You try and catch one when they've robbed a wallet.

 

[keaton]

Don't be ridiculous. She was punished for her mistakes on failures within testing notifications and was not within the rules but no one within the sport thought she had taken any banned substance......
What has mainlining smack got to do with anything. Performance enhancing is it ?

Where's the bit about no one withing the sport thought she had taken a banned substance?

Because all I can see is a statement from a committee.

Also they had no proof or evidence she was doing to avoid detection so they can't state otherwise and put that bit in there as they have to be as clear as possible in case there's an appeal.

 

[keaton]

Regardless, I was cheering on Ohrururogu last night and it was a gutsy run. I thought she'd left herself too much to do but she never gave in and gave her absolute all dipping for the line, breaking the British record in the process. She now has 6 medals in major championships, including 3 golds which puts her up there in the top echelon in terms of the best female athletes these isles have ever produced. Whether that's enough in the eyes of some people is another matter, .

Why would how many medals she won make anyone less suspicious about her?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Regardless, I was cheering on Ohrururogu last night and it was a gutsy run. I thought she'd left herself too much to do but she never gave in and gave her absolute all dipping for the line, breaking the British record in the process. She now has 6 medals in major championships, including 3 golds which puts her up there in the top echelon in terms of the best female athletes these isles have ever produced. Whether that's enough in the eyes of some people is another matter, but I take my hat off to her achievement, not least because her medals have been won over several years with it looking like she had passed her peak only for her to find further inspiration to win again.

To be honest, your arguments are not helping her cause. The manner of her victories (how she has SO much more left than everyone else over the last 50m) is one of the very things that does make (some) people suspiscious. That and the fact that her physique at times over her career, has looked close to unnatural.

 

[marshy68]

I assume we are talking about the same woman who conveniently missed three drugs tests?

Agreed - tarnished you don't miss three drug tests unless you have something to hide - a cheat for me.

 

[edna krabappel]

CO is never going to get any great weight of public / media love behind her. Partly because of the cloud cast by those missed tests, but more so simply because she is a munter.

True story.

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

 

[marshy68]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

I quite fancy CO but she is still a cheat.

 

[Stat Brother]

Agreed - tarnished you don't miss three drug tests unless you have something to hide - a cheat for me.

Not unless the thing she's hiding is the fact she's a fookin idiot.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

That's very unfair Edna.

The male athletes get judged on how fit their WAGS are.

 

[Stat Brother]

Not to mention the oppression convicted drug cheat Linford Christie had to suffer over his penis.

 

[marshy68]

That's very unfair Edna.

The male athletes get judged on how fit their WAGS are.

Shirley its there lunchboxes?

 

[Hillian1]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

Sally Gunnell.

The defence rests.

 

[keaton]

And therein lies the inequality of it all: Andy Murray is ugly as sin but makes every front page (even when he was losing finals). Nobody talks about his looks or bad hair. To be a popular sportswoman in the eyes of the British media, you need to be deemed fit by the writers. Even in 2013, female athletes are judged on their looks in a way that males rarely are.

Apart from Ennis and Ohuruogu the most popular British sportswomen I think of are Rebecca Addlington, Ellie Simmonds, Laura Trott and Laura Robson. I think that's a 50/50 split between attractive and otherwise.

 

[Stat Brother]

Apart from Ennis and Ohuruogu the most popular British sportswomen I think of are Rebecca Addlington, Ellie Simmonds, Laura Trott and Laura Robson. I think that's a 50/50 split between attractive and otherwise.

Oh how quickly we forget Ms Pendleton.

 

[keaton]

Oh how quickly we forget Ms Pendleton.

You're right. But i've since then i've remembered Beth Twaddle which evens it up

 

[Stat Brother]

You're right. But i've since then i've remembered Beth Twaddle which evens it up

I'll raise you Keri-Anne Payne.