Fecking irritating that the yanks don't fight doping but allow their athletes in track and field to compete doped and there's nothing anyone can do about it. No wonder that they win every event as cheating is allowed. As they allow doping it basically forces the clean athlete to take doping in order to be able to compete with the doped one. Consequently we can assume that none of the yanks on the top of track and field are clean. Read in another paper that it was something like 15 that got caught but that were allowed to compete.
From ny times.
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I.A.A.F. and U.S. Body Have Drug Dispute Settled
By FRANK LITSKY
The American and world governing bodies of track and field have argued bitterly over the Americans' refusal to disclose the names of a handful of athletes who failed at least a part of drug tests between 1996 and 2000. Yesterday, the dispute ended in more or less a draw.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world body, argued that its rules required that it be given the names of track-and-field athletes who tested positive for banned drugs. USA Track and Field, the American body, said its confidentiality rules prohibited that in some cases.
Last July, the I.A.A.F. and USA Track and Field agreed to take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. After a two-day hearing in November, the three arbitrators issued a 48-page ruling yesterday.
The American body had argued that while it might have interpreted the I.A.A.F.'s rules incorrectly, it explained its rules to the world body and asked to be informed if it was wrong. It said the I.A.A.F. never responded.
The court said the world body had the right to require identification of those who failed drug tests. However, it said, "the I.A.A.F. was turning a deaf ear to repeated requests" by USA Track and Field to explain the reporting rules, "failing even to state in what manner a refusal to disclose, grounded in domestic confidentiality regulations, comprised a break of I.A.A.F. rules."
When an athlete is tested for drugs, the urine sample is split in two. If the first half, or A sample, tests positive, the second half, or B sample, is tested later. Positive B samples normally result in public disclosure and penalties. However, USA Track and Field refused to publicly identify athletes when the B sample tested negative or the athlete was cleared on appeal, sometimes because of a breakdown in the testing procedure.
One American athlete tested positive for anabolic steroids, but was cleared on appeal by the American body and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. That athlete and others involved have not and will not be identified, the arbitrators ruled, saying it would be unfair to reopen the cases because "the case clearly concerns the lives, livelihood and reputations" of those athletes.
A similar dispute should not happen because the World Anti-Doping Agency, founded in 1999, now handles the drug testing in Olympic sports. Dick Pound, that organization's chairman, had urged the I.A.A.F. to expel the American body.
In a statement, USA Track and Field said its rules and those of the I.A.A.F. and the anti-doping agency "are now in agreement on disclosure and confidentiality matters."
From ny times.
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I.A.A.F. and U.S. Body Have Drug Dispute Settled
By FRANK LITSKY
The American and world governing bodies of track and field have argued bitterly over the Americans' refusal to disclose the names of a handful of athletes who failed at least a part of drug tests between 1996 and 2000. Yesterday, the dispute ended in more or less a draw.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world body, argued that its rules required that it be given the names of track-and-field athletes who tested positive for banned drugs. USA Track and Field, the American body, said its confidentiality rules prohibited that in some cases.
Last July, the I.A.A.F. and USA Track and Field agreed to take the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. After a two-day hearing in November, the three arbitrators issued a 48-page ruling yesterday.
The American body had argued that while it might have interpreted the I.A.A.F.'s rules incorrectly, it explained its rules to the world body and asked to be informed if it was wrong. It said the I.A.A.F. never responded.
The court said the world body had the right to require identification of those who failed drug tests. However, it said, "the I.A.A.F. was turning a deaf ear to repeated requests" by USA Track and Field to explain the reporting rules, "failing even to state in what manner a refusal to disclose, grounded in domestic confidentiality regulations, comprised a break of I.A.A.F. rules."
When an athlete is tested for drugs, the urine sample is split in two. If the first half, or A sample, tests positive, the second half, or B sample, is tested later. Positive B samples normally result in public disclosure and penalties. However, USA Track and Field refused to publicly identify athletes when the B sample tested negative or the athlete was cleared on appeal, sometimes because of a breakdown in the testing procedure.
One American athlete tested positive for anabolic steroids, but was cleared on appeal by the American body and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. That athlete and others involved have not and will not be identified, the arbitrators ruled, saying it would be unfair to reopen the cases because "the case clearly concerns the lives, livelihood and reputations" of those athletes.
A similar dispute should not happen because the World Anti-Doping Agency, founded in 1999, now handles the drug testing in Olympic sports. Dick Pound, that organization's chairman, had urged the I.A.A.F. to expel the American body.
In a statement, USA Track and Field said its rules and those of the I.A.A.F. and the anti-doping agency "are now in agreement on disclosure and confidentiality matters."
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