Posted on 07/31/2006 11:54:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Any indication what sport this may be?
"Trevor Graham, insisted on Sunday that the Olympic and world champion and co-world record-holder in the 100 metres was a victim of a set-up. "We are 100 per cent sure who it is," Graham said."
Uh huh. Obviously, with his unsullied and blemish free reputation, we should believe him /sarc.
Funny how these people always have some kind of reason why they are innocent and not in fact cheats...
Running, I think. Track and field. The gentleman holds the world record in 100-meters.
"Any indication what sport this may be?"
Yes, reading the article would give an indication!
track and field
Maurice Greene set him up!
Very creative!
How come the rest of us don't get to use excuses like this? I wasn't intentionally drink driving, a barman with a grudge rubbed vodka into my legs....
OK, smartass, what paragraph & line.
I could infer that, but it doesn not state that anywhere in the article I saw. a 100m race could easily be a swimming race, but 9.7 seconds would be a little fast.
"The International Association of Athletics Federation............Olympic and world champion and co-world record-holder in the 100 metres" pretty much narrows it down, I would have thought.
just for the record I think Landis is clean.
Hmmm, could be swimming, ya know. Yep, narrows it, does not ever define it. Thank you for confirming my point.
One would have thought that, had it been swimming, the comment from the International Association of Athletics Federation would have been "why the hell are you ringing us?" :)
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Well, in all fairness that's not a fair comparison.
Alcohol is not absorbed into the system enough to make a difference in a test for alcohol, which is at a very high level (comparitively speaking).
Two things are at play here. Since the sixties, instrumentation for measuring levels of just about any substance have become ridiculously sensitive, and the level of certain substances may be set absurdly low for banning. Ways of introducing those low levels are so trivial it could happen to anyone... Just eating out at the wrong place will do it. Or contaminating snack food.
Having said that, I think he's guilty; lying under those circumstances is a given.
However, being "set up" is a real and almost unavoidable possibility.
"However, being "set up" is a real and almost unavoidable possibility."
This is true. However, in a hypothetical situation where one had been set up, having both a previous positive test for banned substances and a coach with relationships with several banned drugs cheats would not be particularly helpful with regard to convincing anyone of ones innocence.
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