Gatlin conned!!!!!

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Poor Justin Gatlin, man was just trying to make a living and there was those evil white men wit dere needles putting God knows what into his body. I feel sorry for the mofo, he just a dumb brutha what he know about drugs an sh*t!

You know black men the fastest runners in the world, just cause all of them accidently on steroids don't mean nothing.

I think the NAACP should give him an award.


Sprinter Justin Gatlin got injection he thought was vitamin B12 before positive test
By BOB BAUM, AP Sports Writer
August 6, 2007

The top assistant to track coach Trevor Graham gave Justin Gatlin an injection, which he believed to be vitamin B12, two weeks before the world record-sharing sprinter tested positive for steroids.

After Randall Evans gave Gatlin the shot, the sprinter was given what he was told were anti-inflammatory pills as a follow-up, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Monday.

Gatlin said Evans and Graham came to his house and told him the injection could help his troubled hamstring, said the person, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case.

Gatlin answered questions about the injection and medication last week at an arbitration hearing to determine whether a possible eight-year ban should be reduced.

The 100-meter gold medalist at the Athens Olympics, who hopes to run in the 2008 Beijing Games, tested positive for testosterone and other steroids last April but has said he doesn't know how steroids got into his system. A ruling is not expected for several weeks.

Gatlin's attorney John Collins confirmed Gatlin received an injection and pills. "But we have no reason to believe it was anything other than B12 and Voltaren," he said.
 

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Yes the shuffling dumb Jethro defense will be used, The ghosts of Amos and Andy would be proud...
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Maybe I was wrong, this could turnout to be a new Ian Fleming novel before this soap opera is over....
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Gatlin handed Olympic hope by FBI evidence


Duncan Mackay
Sunday August 5, 2007
The Observer

While Tyson Gay was underlining at Crystal Palace on Friday, with another victory in the 100 metres, why he is set to be Asafa Powell's main rival at the World Championships, which are held in Osaka later this month, on the other side of the Atlantic his predecessor as America's top sprinter was desperately hoping he had done enough to save his career.

It is more than a year since the joint world-record holder Justin Gatlin tested positive for testosterone, once more plunging the sport into a crisis of confidence over how bad the problem of drug-taking is. The appalling record of American athletes and Gatlin's association with Trevor Graham, who has coached nearly a dozen sprinters who have been involved in doping scandals, appeared to make this an open-and-shut case.

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But after an arbitration hearing in Atlanta last week, Gatlin, who shares the world record of 9.77sec with Jamaican Powell, was said to be growing increasingly confident that he would at least get his eight-year suspension reduced, possibly by enough to allow him to compete in the Olympics next year and defend the title he won in Athens in 2004. That could put the American authorities on a collision course with the world governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, which could overshadow preparations for Beijing.

The reason for Gatlin's confidence was the testimony of Jeff Novitzky, an FBI agent who led the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (Balco). He testified that Gatlin had secretly recorded more than 10 telephone calls with Graham during which there was no evidence that he had been given or that he had taken any performance-enhancing drugs. Novitzky, who testified for more than two hours, claimed Gatlin was the only athlete to provide undercover assistance willingly during the five-year Balco investigation of steroid use in sports, which has resulted in five criminal convictions and more than a dozen bans for athletes.

Novitzky's compelling evidence could conceivably persuade the panel to look favourably upon Gatlin, which would be something of a remarkable double as six years ago the sprinter managed to convince another arbitration hearing that a stimulant he had tested for was because he was suffering from attention deficit disorder and he served a much shorter ban than he should have done. That is also why he was given an eight-year ban rather than the life suspension as is normal after a second offence.

However, the IAAF is unlikely to be happy if Gatlin's suspension is lifted on the basis of Novitzky's testimony. They operate a strict liability policy that means an athlete who tests positive for a banned substance has to account for what is found in their body. Gatlin has been unable to so far provide a satisfactory explanation as to why he tested positive for testosterone.

He has claimed that a massage therapist, Chris Whetstine, may have rubbed the drug into his legs on the eve of a meeting in May 2006 because he held a grudge against him over an unpaid bonus from the previous year. Whetstine has denied the allegations and claims he even offered to take a lie-detector test to demonstrate his innocence.

Whetstine was unable to attend Gatlin's hearing because he claimed he is suffering from severe headaches as a result of injuries allegedly suffered following a fight with a Nike representative, Llewellyn Starks, at the United States Championships last June - shortly before it was announced Gatlin had tested positive. Nike are Gatlin's personal sponsor and Whetstine is seeking damages from the company and Starks.

Yet Whetstine's evidence could still have helped Gatlin's defence because he claimed that he did not believe he had knowingly taken drugs. Scientific evidence also backed up Gatlin's claim. After he tested positive the US Anti-Doping Agency used a state-of-the-art technique to analyse five of Gatlin's urine samples to try to distinguish natural from artificial testosterone. All five were negative.

A final decision is not expected to be announced by the arbitration panel for several weeks at least. Controversy is guaranteed whatever the outcome. If Gatlin is cleared, a schism could open in the sport between the IAAF and American organisers. If the ban is upheld, it seems unlikely he will take the decision lying down and a potentially expensive court case could ensue.

Since the positive test, Gatlin has returned home to Florida, disassociated himself from Graham, become a volunteer coach for the local schools athletics team, dabbled in the NFL with a tryout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and pushed his training aside in an effort to clear his name.

He probably paid little attention to what happened at Crystal Palace on Friday, an event he won in 2005, but the rest of the world waits in anticipation to see if he will be allowed back on the track. Whatever the outcome, it seems certain that we have not heard the last of Justin Gatlin.
 

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Gatlin banned, won't be eligible to defend Olympic 100-meter title

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Updated: January 1, 2008, 8:56 PM ET

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Sprinter Justin Gatlin got his doping ban reduced, but not by enough to make him eligible to defend his Olympic 100-meter title this year.

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Olympic gold-winning sprinter Justin Gatlin had a potential eight-year ban reduced to four.

An arbitration panel, in a 53-page ruling released Tuesday, reduced the 25-year-old sprinter's potential eight-year ban to four. With the ban set to expire May 24, 2010, it means Gatlin would be on the sidelines for the Beijing Olympics in August.

Still, the panel left open the possibility of a further reduction.

The three-member panel unanimously ruled Gatlin committed a doping offense when he tested positive for excessive testosterone in April 2006, but the sprinter's first doping offense in 2001 troubled the group.

If that doping violation were erased, that would make Gatlin's 2006 case his first offense, clearing the way for a further reduced ban. First doping offenses often result in a two-year ban, which would make him eligible to run in May, a month before the U.S. Olympic trials.

Gatlin has six months to appeal.

Gatlin's mother was outraged by the decision.

"It took them five months to come to this? It's ridiculous," Jeanette Gatlin told Reuters from her Pensacola, Fla., home. "I think everybody is blindsided by this opinion."

The panel called the circumstances surrounding Gatlin's first offense "the real dilemma."

As a 19-year-old competitor at the world junior championships, Gatlin tested positive for amphetamines, part of a prescribed medication he was taking for attention deficit disorder. Gatlin had stopped taking the medicine a few days before the competition, but it didn't clear his system, according to the case records. He received a two-year ban.

The International Association of Athletics Federations, the sport's world governing body, later reinstated Gatlin after he had served only one year of the ban but never specifically said Gatlin had "no fault" in the case.

USADA characterized Gatlin's reinstatement as a reduction in the ban whereas Gatlin contended it vacated the finding of a doping offense.

We have no higher priority than the commitment we have made to clean competition. If that means leaving behind when we go to the Games an athlete who has the talent and ability to break world records but has also cheated, so be it. That's an easy choice to make.

-- USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel

The panel said Gatlin could go through an appeals process to seek a finding of no fault in the first case or ask the IAAF for a clarification on its earlier ruling.

"The actions of the IAAF clearly suggest, at a minimum, a finding of 'no significant fault' in 2001," the panel said. "However, there is no evidence from which this panel may determine that a finding of 'no fault' under the current WADA standard was made or could be inferred."

"No significant fault" would leave Gatlin still somewhat responsible for the positive test, and it would remain a first doping offense. A "no fault" finding would erase the offense.

The 2001 findings came under different standards than those in effect now because the World Anti-Doping Code had yet to be established.

A family member who said he was speaking on Gatlin's behalf told The Associated Press "the fight is not over for us."

"We feel we were wrongly done," said the man who answered the phone at Gatlin's parents home but declined to give his name. "He has a disability. The family is going to sit down. We're going to decide where to go next."

Gatlin, who has denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs, still hopes to compete again, his mother said.

"There is no doubt about that," Jeanette Gatlin told Reuters. "We will be talking to his lawyer later [Tuesday]."

Gatlin's attorney John Collins did not return messages left on his office telephone and cell phone.

The ruling means Gatlin will have no immediate chance to regain his world record in the 100 meters. He shared the record of 9.77 seconds with Jamaica's Asafa Powell. Since then, Powell has improved the record, finishing in 9.74 seconds last September.

Gatlin, who held himself up as a role model for clean competition before his positive test, has said he doesn't know how steroids got into his system before the April 2006 test.

Gatlin accused a disgruntled massage therapist of rubbing a steroid cream on him to trigger the positive test, but the massage therapist has repeatedly denied the allegations.

The panel rejected that defense and noted Gatlin also acknowledged receiving an injection of what was purported to be vitamin B-12 from an assistant coach before the Kansas meet.

"We have no higher priority than the commitment we have made to clean competition," U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said. "If that means leaving behind when we go to the Games an athlete who has the talent and ability to break world records but has also cheated, so be it. That's an easy choice to make."

The panel did note Gatlin's cooperation with a federal doping investigation and his apparent sincerity as a witness.

"While Mr. Gatlin seems like a complete gentleman and was genuinely and deeply upset during his testimony, the panel cannot eliminate the possibility that Mr. Gatlin intentionally took testosterone, or that he accepted it from a coach, even though he testified to the contrary," the ruling said.

USADA general counsel Bill Bock said Gatlin helped federal authorities "in investigating doping in sport, to extent of wearing wire in communications with his former coach," Trevor Graham. Bock also said Jeff Novitzky, the lead investigator in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid investigation, testified about Gatlin's assistance.

"Mr. Gatlin should be commended for his decision to cooperate with authorities following his positive test," USADA chief executive officer Travis Tygart said in a statement. "However, these efforts do not completely remove his responsibility for his second doping offense. Given his cooperation and the circumstances relating to Mr. Gatlin's first offense, the four-year penalty issued by the arbitration panel is a fair and just outcome."

Gatlin's positive test was announced in July 2006.

Gatlin's arbitration hearing -- overseen by the American Arbitration Association -- was held last July and was not open to the public. The case was reopened last August to gather more information on Gatlin's first offense. One panel member dissented with the ruling, saying the first doping offense should be thrown out because it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Seibel said the USOC was "concerned about the length of time it is taking to resolve these cases."

"It should not take 18 months, or longer, to reach a decision in an anti-doping arbitration," Seibel said.

Information from The Associated Press and Reuters was used in this report...... Okay Gatlin's lawyers are using the too stupid to count excuse, wow just go away already, can lies ever end...
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He'll be back in time for the Olympics. Read the report, they cut it in half and they will review the first suspension which will effect the penalty on the steroids. No surprise. Remember the saying "cheaters never win"? That's from the old days, we live in the reverse world of today, now it's "cheaters always win".
 
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