Ramzi B-Sample POSITIVE

[Hector The Inspector]

Link (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2009/July/sports_July195.xml&section=sports)

[eh]

Ah, the Khaleej Times, where I go for all my sporting news.

jk though, this is expected but still big news.

[Zat0pek]

Good. Now they just need to retroactively strip him of all medals, titles, records and prize money in addition to his ban (which should be permanent IMO).

Yeah, I know, won't happen. But I can dream.

The only way to stop drug cheats in any sport is to make the penalty for using one of the biggies (steroids, EPO, HGH, etc. versus some OTC cold medicine) is to ban them permanently and wipe their records and titles from the books and force repayment of prize money and other money that can be tied even remotely to their use. The penalty has to be so severe that no one is willing to risk even the miniscule chance that they'll get caught.

[schafer]

Muhahahaha http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/527/bananal.gif (http://img43.imageshack.us/i/bananal.gif/)

[JamesCXC]

Jesus, about time. I don't know how I knew, but as soon as that douche bag crossed the line..I'm like "I hope they catch that EPO-using bastard". Hopefully they make an example out of him and ban him for 5-10 years. :P

[Prince]

This is terrible news. Just all bad for track and field.

[bdub525]

This is terrible news. Just all bad for track and field.

ya, i think its good, because we are eliminating all of the cheaters, but bad in the sense that people outside of the sport will be like, meh all good track and field athletes are all on drugs. in a similar way that has happened with baseball.

[IllinoisPhotographer]

Who woulda guessed?

[WildcatXC]

If this has happened to someone we all like it would be sad. Its hard to feel sorry for Ramzi, since i think most of us hate him for whatever reason (mostly cuz we thought he cheated beforehand). But if this had happened to someone else, we wouldn't be saying its a good thing, we'd be saying its bad for the sport. To an outside observer who knows nothing about Ramzi other than that he won the gold in beijing, this will make them look at the sport of T&F in a negative light. The 100 guys like Montgomery, Gatlin, already made the sport look dirty, we don't need distance guys getting busted too. I shiver at the thought of Bolt potentially getting busted for PEDs, because if he did, track would lose all of its credibility. It'd become like cycling or baseball where its just assumed you're cheating.

That being said, a part of me is happy to see Ramzi go down.

[Ray_Ray]

The five athletes were all from different countries... how is it that this spread to different sports and different athletes and no one had a teammate who was also found to be using the drug? Aren't these things usually distributed by coaches to training groups?

They should just legal performance enhancers. That way no one could cheat using performance enhancers, and the sport would be more exciting and generate more audience because the performances would be enhanced.
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Oh yeah, and...
Italy’s Rebellin, the Bahrain runner Ramzi, Greek walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka and Croatian 800m runner Vanja Perisic were also caught in the IOC retests, with the b-sample confirming the original finding, according to the FAZ.

Wtf? Really?

[JMegs13]

:eek: :eek: I'm utterly shocked!

[Stickyrunner01]

ya, i think its good, because we are eliminating all of the cheaters, but bad in the sense that people outside of the sport will be like, meh all good track and field athletes are all on drugs. in a similar way that has happened with CYCLING.

fixed

[JustRun07]

, meh all good track and field athletes are all on drugs. in a similar way that has happened with baseball.

Maybe because they are all on drugs?