Nice find, Devans. I'm really interested in the 1500 tomorrow, so if you find a clip of it, please post.
Meanwhile, we occasionally feud here about the ubiquity of juicing by Jamaican sprinters. Here's a bit from a column today by British great Steve Cram. It's about a new kind of stimulant that the Jamaican (and apparently Nigerian and American) sprinters all use: (what follows is all Steve Cram's writing)(but one note by me: this drug sounds even more ideal for distance runners, so I'll be curious to see if they've started using it, too)
The drug Osayemi has been found to have been using,
methylhexaneamine, is the one that has been causing trouble in the last
18 months, and it has only recently gone on the banned list.
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It's a geranium extract which is fairly commonly used. The stimulant
is used by bodybuilders to help bring their core temperatures down so
they can pump more iron.
And I'm also told the New Zealand government is considering banning it because it is readily available as a party pill there.
Several
Jamaican sprinters tested positive for it and 11 Indian athletes from
different sports were also found to have been using it recently.
When
you are in a system, like the British one, you are told clearly not to
take anything without checking with a team physician or the governing
body.
But Osayemi is not working with her national federation -
as she is based in the United States - so she probably thought that, if
other people were taking it, it would be OK.
It could be easy to
point the finger at Nigeria because they don't yet have a national
anti-doping programme, but Osayemi should be subject to random testing
in the US.
