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Two silvers today in the Womans 1500m (Lisa Dobriskey) & Men's 4x400m relay.

 

IAAF 2009 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BERLIN

 

FINAL MEDAL TABLE

 

# Nation G S B Total

 

1 USA 10 6 6 22

2 JAMAICA 7 4 2 13

3 KENYA 4 5 2 11

4 RUSSIA 4 3 6 13

5 POLAND 2 4 2 8

6 GERMANY 2 3 4 9

7 ETHIOPIA 2 2 4 8

8 GREAT BRITAIN 2 2 2 6

9 SOUTH AFRICA 2 1 0 3

10 AUSTRALIA 2 0 2 4

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It's a very respectable position and looking at the top 8 finishes it's looking very good for the Commonwealth Games and the European Championships next year.

 

I'm thinking at least 4 golds in the next World Championships is a reasonable target.

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dobrisky is another one who failed to get a gold, 1 hunderedth of a second too late, if she had dipped for the line and golded then we would have been in 5th pos on the medals table, but nontheless ...well done!

 

im looking foreward now to the zurich grand prix meeting on friday, should be on british eurosport.

The British team did quite well, better than in Beijing, let's hope the improvment continues towards the 2011 championships and of course the Olympics in 2012.
I feel sorry for Semenya but I did find it funny that Caster Semenya is an anagram of "Yes, a secret man"! :lol:

 

:lol: !

 

To go through a gender verification test must be horrid though :( Let alone the doping tests winners go through. Why does this feel like something Frankie Boyle will bring up in Mock The Week.

:lol: !

 

To go through a gender verification test must be horrid though :( Let alone the doping tests winners go through. Why does this feel like something Frankie Boyle will bring up in Mock The Week.

 

He's already cracked a joke about it.

 

"If it looks like a man, speaks like a man and runs like a man, it must be a woman."

 

Still this saga has taken another (sinister) twist today:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8219937.stm

 

Also besides the high level of testosterone, she's been 'coached' by an ex-East German doctor who has previously been in trouble for pumping East German female athletes with steroids so much so that one of them had to have a sex-change to a male.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_spo...ter_semeny.html

 

Still of course there could be an innocent explanation as to why a female athlete has more testosterone on her than Dwain Chambers had when he was caught, and then banned from Athletics and being eligible to compete in the Olympics.

 

...... But some how this cynic, doubts it.

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bugger..... the zurich meeting is on sky only live... its on british eurosport later on friday eve but not live... :(

 

as for caster semenya, ill wait until the relevant tests have been done. i think it is possible that she might naturally have high testosterone levels, but it is deeply suspicious.

When I first heard the Semenya story I thought possibly when she'd been growing up she'd been trained with steroids :unsure: But now it seems her coach has a history of foul play I'm unsure. Still, this is a horrible thing for an 18 year old girl to go through.

the other test will take a few weeks yet. She does look like one of my male friends though lol.

i hope she is female though.

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wot a fantastic meeting (as ever) the weltklasse meeting was , the zurich crowd love there athletics and the stadium was full..

 

brilliant performances by athletes from all corners of the globe, and thats what i like about athletics.... people appreciating real talent, appreciating people from whatever background / race, praising effort in striving towards a personal achievement.

 

they were duly awarded

 

Yelena Isinbayeva got the world record in womans pole vault, 5 metres 6 cms... breaking her own wr by 1 cms... brilliant...

i'm goin to Gateshead to watch the Grand Prix on Monday. My little sis has been called in to do the 800m in the camp with Kelly bit.
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This time Philips Idowu beat Nelson Évora in the triple jump.

 

And Isinbayeva with no marks!

full results here

 

http://www.iaaf.org/gle08/results/eventcode=3920/index.html

 

but i guess its no competition for moronic footy fans <_<

 

At least with Football what you see is the end result, and not as a result of some illusion that Derren Brown would be proud of:

 

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Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:52 pm EDT

Semenya withdraws from race amidst reports she's hermaphrodite

Press Association

By Chris Chase

 

Caster Semenya, the 18-year old at the center of one of the biggest gender scandals in sports history, withdrew from a weekend race in South Africa amidst unconfirmed reports that her gender tests have revealed that she has both male and female sexual organs.

 

She was scheduled to compete in the 4,000 meters at the national cross country championships in Pretoria. Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, says his runner "isn't feeling well".

 

Yesterday, unsubstantiated reports from Australia and England said that Semenya's tests showed that she has no womb or ovaries and produces testosterone levels three times higher than a normal woman. The IAAF thinly denies the reports. (The organization's spokesman says he hasn't "seen" the results, which doesn't mean he hasn't "heard" the results. Nor has the IAAF come out and said that the reports are false.)

 

Let's operate under assumption that the tests were accurate and that Semenya is a hermaphrodite. If so, then there are three main questions that will need to be answered soon:

 

1) Will Semenya be stripped of her gold medal?

 

Probably. It's hard to imagine that the IAAF would allow Semenya to keep the gold after what these tests reveal. The rules explicitly state that a "gender verification" situation has to be approved and overseen by medical authorities. Semenya didn't do this. Fair or not, a rule is a rule.

 

2) Will Semenya ever be allowed to run again?

 

Reading the IAAF rules, it would appear that Semenya would be allowed to run if her condition was treated. Whether or not she would want to is anyone's guess. But there's also a chance she could be banned from running based on the answer to the next question.

 

3) Who knew about this and when did they know?

 

We haven't gotten this far down the road yet, but the next logical step in the progression of this sordid affair is whether there was a coverup involved. Regardless of whether the intentions of Semenya and her handlers were nefarious, they had to know of her ambiguous sexuality. (My memories of fifth grade family life are sketchy, but I think it's safe to say that a woman not having ovaries is something that wouldn't go unnoticed.) If they did, then at what point did this turn from an unfortunate medical situation into outright deception?

 

If Semenya was an innocent running without knowledge of her condition, then there's not much the IAAF could do other than strip her medal and advise her on how to regain eligibility. But if it can be determined that she knew she was running illegally (which would be tough to prove, but I'm starting to get the feeling that people knew -- how else would other coaches have known to order gender tests?) then there could be heavy sanctions down the road.

 

These questions will be discussed in the coming weeks and will be the center of attention when the IAAF officially releases its findings in November. If you thought the tale of Caster Semenya was strange before, it's just getting started.

 

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Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:11 pm EDT

Jamaican athletes admit to doping

Press Association

 

Four Jamaican athletes have admitted to taking a banned substance.

 

The four are Yohan Blake and Marvin Anderson, who train with triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt, as well as Allodin Fothergill and Lansford Spence.

 

"The athletes have admitted they took a banned substance," said Jamaican Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal (Jadco) chairman Ransford Langrin.

"We have to decide what is the sanction we apply - the minimum sanction is a reprimand or up to a two-year ban."

 

Relay runners Blake, Fothergill, Spence and Anderson as well as Sheri-Ann Brooks were withdrawn by Jamaica from the World Championships in Berlin last month.

They tested positive for methylxanthine at Jamaica's championships in June, but were initially cleared by a disciplinary panel on the basis it was not on the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) banned list.

 

But Jadco then appealed against the verdict stating the substance had a similar structure to tuaminoheptane, a banned stimulant according to Wada.

Brooks, the Commonwealth 100m champion, was cleared in August on a technicality because Jadco tested her B sample without her knowledge.

 

Lincoln Eatmon, a member of the athletes' legal team, added: "We have no control over what World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) or the the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) might do.

"Even if the athletes are found not guilty, the prospect of them facing a lengthy, expensive battle to go to arbitration on all that, it was felt that we should try to resolve the thing as amicably as possible."

 

Blake, who won bronze in the 100m at the world junior championships in 2006, is Olympic champion Bolt's training partner and has recorded the fifth-fastest time over 100m this year.

Anderson is also a 100m runner, while Fothergill and Spence compete in the 400m.

 

Jadco is due to announce its punishment for the four athletes on 14 September.

 

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And what a coincidence: :rolleyes:

 

Friday, 11 September 2009 12:14 UK

"Tired" Bolt calls off trip to Asia

BBC Sport News

 

World and Olympic 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt has opted out of races in China and South Korea later this month because of fatigue.

 

He was due to run in Shanghai on 20 September and in Daegu five days later.

 

But the Jamaican, who runs in Greece this weekend, said on his website: "I have been suffering from fatigue.

"After careful discussions with my coach and management team, even with medical advice, we felt it necessary to close the season."

 

Bolt, 23, will now head home after competing in the 200m at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki.

 

"The season has been long and challenging with the early challenges I faced," he added referring to the minor injuries he suffered in a car crash in April.

"In addition the risk of injury becomes greater and if I compete in the shape I am in, I may be at great risk."

 

Bolt smashed his own world 100m and 200m records at the World Championships in Berlin in August.

 

Nothing to do with his colleagues who have the same training schedule being caught for taking a banned substance then.

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