WMA president confirms second doping case at Lahti worlds
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Stan Perkins, president of World Masters Athletics, has replied to my query on drug cases at last summer’s Lahti world masters championships. We’ve been aware of the Finnish thrower’s case for a couple months. Now a second shoe is about to drop. Stan writes: “In Lahti there were two adverse analysis results. The first as you have indicated resulted in a disqualification being imposed by the Finnish Masters Athletics organisation. The second has been referred to the athlete’s national Federation and is being progressed in accordance with the provisions established by the anti-doping code. I do not know when an outcome will be known as there are many factors for consideration by the parties involved in the matter.” That’s all I know. I’ll poke around. It would be nice if national federations piped in and said, “Not one of our athletes!” Otherwise, a cloud is over everyone.
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It would be interesting to know how many were tested and how many were there. That way you can get an accurate idea of how many of the untested athletes were dirty. I think we would all be appalled at how many masters are dirty.
One Finnish report said about 50 drug-tests were conducted at Lahti.
http://masterstrack.com/blog/006020.html
If it turns out that two out of 50 tested positive, one can only guess whether 4 percent of the entered athletes were doping (purposefully or not). Since most of the tests were of medalists, the most you can say is maybe 4 percent of medalists might be doping.
Statistically, how big a sample is required to draw solid conclusions? I don’t know.
Come on, Ken! We know it’s you! 🙂
Comment of the Year, Jeff!
I fess up:
I tested positive for performance-detracting substances at Lahti. WMA took pity on me and gave me some steroid-laced HGH to improve my speed.
Come on Ken time to fess up- it was that stuff to grow hair on your head.- if you look closely at Ken’s photo with the relay medal you can see some peaking out from the white headband.
Stop messing around.
The Lahti World Championships ended late August 2009, all of four months ago. Surely it does not take four months to determine whether or not an athlete took a prohibited substance and whether or not the athlete had a TUE? What is going on?
I am glad to see that cheaters are being dealt with. in my thought’s if you are doing a preformance inhancing drug at this age you don’t deserve a second chance.
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