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Drug scandal rocks Turkey who could be thrown out of World Championships as 'dozens' of athletes test positive.



EXCLUSIVE: Turkey is at risk of being thrown out of next month's World Championships in Moscow after "dozens" of its athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in a series of recent anti-doping raids last month.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...hips-as-dozens-of-athletes-test-positive.html


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As part of a target-testing operation carried out by the International Association of Athletics Federations, large numbers of Turkish athletes were drug-tested both in and out of competition in the run-up to the Mediterranean Games, which were held in the Turkish city of Mersin from June 20-30. The results of the anti-doping operation have yet to be made public but the number of positive cases is said to run into dozens.

"We’re talking about a lot of athletes," said a senior athletics insider. "It could be as many as 30." It is understood that the athletes have all failed tests on their 'A' urine samples and are now waiting for the test results from their 'B' samples. Only then will the cases be publicly revealed, though a formal announcement is expected within days. If the adverse findings are confirmed - and it is very rare for a 'B' sample to contradict the result of the 'A' - then it would represent one of the biggest ever doping exposes in athletics within a single country.The decision of the IAAF to target Turkish athletes for drug tests follows a series of high-profile recent doping cases involving the country's track and field stars. In May, it was announced that Asli Cakir Alptekein, who won gold in the women's 1,500 metres at the London Olympics, had been provisionally suspended after abnormalities were detected in her blood profile that indicated she had been cheating. If found guilty of a drug violation by a disciplinary tribunal, she will be stripped of her Olympic title and banned for life, having already served a two-year suspension for doping. Another of Turkey's most decorated athletes, two-time European 100m hurdles champion Nevin Yanit, was also charged with a drug violation in May after testing positive for a prohibited substance. Last week, the crisis within Turkish athletics deepened when it was revealed that a further eight of its athletes were facing doping charges, including Esref Apak, the 2004 Olympic hammer silver medallist, who finished third at last month's European Team Championships in Gateshead. Alarmed at the possibility of more Turkish athletes testing positive at the World Championships, it is understood the IAAF sent a team of drug-testers to Turkey in a preemptive strike. The world governing body operates a global "registered testing pool" of elite athletes who are subject to out-of-competition testing, 18 of whom are Turkish, but the recent raids were focused more on second-tier athletes outside the elite pool. The scale of the doping problem in Turkey is said to be so serious that the IAAF could now take the ultimate step of suspending the Turkish athletics federation and barring its athletes from competing at the World Championships, which begin on Aug 10. According to the IAAF rulebook, if a member federation is considered to be in breach of its obligations under the sport's anti-doping regulations, the IAAF's ruling Council has the authority "to suspend the member until the next meeting of the Congress or for any shorter period" and "to exclude the member's athletes from any one or more international competition". While it is not uncommon for a member federation to be suspended, with Tunisia the most recent example earlier this year due to "government interference", it is believed to be unprecedented for a national federation to be suspended for doping offences. To take such a serious step, the IAAF Council would have to be satisfied that the Turkish federation was either complicit in doping or so negligent that it was in breach of its obligations. Turkey will no doubt claim that it is not the only country with a doping problem. India currently tops the IAAF's list of doping shame with 52 of its athletes currently suspended for drug offences, while 44 Russians are serving bans and several others have pending cases. But Turkey's population is considerably smaller than that of India and Russia and the surge in drugs cases within a short time-frame raises suspicions about a systematic doping programme. In purely pragmatic terms, Turkey also carries less political clout than Russia. Suspending the federation that is hosting the World Championships summer was never going to be a serious option for the IAAF. Even if the Turkish federation escapes suspension and is free to send a team to Moscow next month, the latest doping revelations threaten to do untold damage to Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
 

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Good news. Now these Mongols can go back to the only sport they really over-achieve: Raping and sexually harassing foreign women and tourists. And to think about it these Islamic sub-humans want to join European Union :yuck:
 
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With the exception of Guliyev, are there any other Turkish athletes we follow? I don't recall any others. Would be a shame if he is unable to compete because of this.
 

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He is the only one I know of and he just transfered his citizenship there. He is not Turkish and he is not one of the athletes on the list. What a damn shame that so many people would try an cheat. I hope they get what they deserve!
 
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He is the only one I know of and he just transfered his citizenship there. He is not Turkish and he is not one of the athletes on the list. What a damn shame that so many people would try an cheat. I hope they get what they deserve!
If this turns out to be true why can't the powers that be catch the Jamaicans? Ten years ago only 3 Jamaicans went sub 10.1 in the 100 meters. Last year it was 23. I'm not trying to change the subject but the entire thing just stinks. Maybe if this Kristoffer Hari progresses we won't need to root so much for Lemaitre in the coming years.
 

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I agree twinkletoes. Jamaica is as dirty as any country that has ever participated in athletics in my honest opinion. They swept the mens 200 meters in London. Think about the odds of that happening? Just not possible for a tiny island to dominate the whole world. It's hard enough for a super power country to do it. Where there is smoke there is fire but as I've said countless times they will do anything to protect the majority of Jamaicans and especially the biggest sprinter on earth, Usain Bolt. I would bet my house on it that they are cheating!

I hate cheaters period whether they are black or white. It ruins the sport. Baseball has suffered and will continue to. I don't want to see athletics which has little popularity continue to have it's biggest stars caught cheating but that is the reality most of the time.
 
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It has been mentioned here many times but there probably is not another clean sprinter other than Lemaitre running sub 10 at the moment.
I find it funny how the Japanese and Chinese ( especially surprising ) have put a ton of eye popping times two months ago and now they have vanished.
And how did Justin Gatlin only run a 10.1 after Lemaitre ran him down with a + 2.9 wind? Something stinks here.
Prediction time.
I think we could see Yamagata, Bintian Su, Piemeng Zang, Gemilli, Lemaitre, Rues, Guliyev, Tumi and Kiryu all make it to thw quarters and even the semis in the 100 at the World Championships next month. What do you think WL?
 

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Those names are sound like they have a descent chance to make the semis and without a doubt the quarterfinals. I would add a few more possiblilities like Sakalauskas, Jakubzcyk, Horvat, Smelyk, Dimitrov, Cackett, and Keller. You may even see a an aussie or two make it if they can return to form.


I really want to see Reus and Tumi step up their A Game. At the moment, Reus is doing a better job but he is still underacheiving. It's time to join the big boys club. With his speed endurance he can do it.

It would be a shame if Guliyev couldn't run because of the actions of some of the other idiots from the Turkish Team. He is innocent and he hasn't competed at a major championship since 2009.
 
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It has been mentioned here many times but there probably is not another clean sprinter other than Lemaitre running sub 10 at the moment.
I find it funny how the Japanese and Chinese ( especially surprising ) have put a ton of eye popping times two months ago and now they have vanished.
And how did Justin Gatlin only run a 10.1 after Lemaitre ran him down with a + 2.9 wind? Something stinks here.
Prediction time.
I think we could see Yamagata, Bintian Su, Piemeng Zang, Gemilli, Lemaitre, Rues, Guliyev, Tumi and Kiryu all make it to thw quarters and even the semis in the 100 at the World Championships next month. What do you think WL?
I think the biggest problem the Asians have always had is they don't perform well outside their respective countries. However they seem to have an unusual amount of fast guys this year. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Gatlin hasn't ever been clean, it's a damn joke that he is allowed to run at all. I think Lemaitre will make the finals. Reus is my wildcard to make the final. He seems to be ramping up as to peak at the right time. I won't be shocked if he makes some kind of history. Gemilli, Guliyev and Tumi all could go either way in my opinion. Haven't seen much of any of them thus far but I'm hoping they all put an effort in! Where is Shane Crawford and Jared Connaughton? Wish these guys would run more!
 

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He is the only one I know of and he just transfered his citizenship there. He is not Turkish and he is not one of the athletes on the list. What a damn shame that so many people would try an cheat. I hope they get what they deserve!
Does anybody think Nevin Yanit is clean? She looks like she could enter a female bodybuilding competition, short of a thick goatee she has all of the eye ball test signs of PED abuse........:scared::thumbdown:
 
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