Cheaters never prosper

[Long Run]

Flanagan, Goucher Get Silver-Medal Upgrades
A Turkish competitor failed a retroactive drug test and will be stripped of her results.
By Erin Strout Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 1:33 pm

Elvan Abeylegesse, a Turkish Olympic and world championships medalist in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, was handed a two-year competition ban and stripped of her results from August 2007 to 2009, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced on Wednesday.

Abeylegesse’s sample from the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, was retested and found to contain a banned steroid. In Osaka she placed second in the 10,000 meters and Kara Goucher placed third. Goucher is now set to receive an upgrade to the silver medal. Jo Pavey, of Great Britain, will be upgraded to bronze.

The IAAF also said that Abeylegesse would lose two Olympic silver medals from the 2008 Beijing Games, which means that Shalane Flanagan, who won the Olympic bronze in the 10,000 meters, is to receive the silver medal.

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IAAF officials also announced that Gamze Bulut, another Turkish medalist, was given a four-year ban for violation of the biological passport program. She won silver in the 1500 meters at the 2012 London Olympics—a race that will likely go down as one of the most tainted in history.

Asli Cakir Alptekin, from Turkey, was the 2012 gold medalist in the 1500 meters, but was stripped of her title for biological passport violations. Maryam Yusuf Jamal from Bahrain, who was third, will likely be awarded the gold.

Tatyana Tomashova, of Russia, placed fourth in that race, however she served a two-year suspension before 2012 for “fraudulent substitution of urine” before a drug test and Russia is currently banned from IAAF competition for a state-wide supported doping system. In fifth was Abeba Aregawi from Ethiopia, who has since tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

That leaves American Shannon Rowbury, who was sixth in the 1500 meters at the 2012 Games. Will she receive a retroactive medal? She’s never tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, so the possibility is still on the table. Officials still have a lot to sort out before annulling any further results or naming new medalists in that event.

[Lord Jim]

Cheaters never prosper

Unfortunately, they frequently prosper...

[BoSoxGal]

The world is full of cheats who prosper - often at great cost to other people. Most of these cheats operate with callous indifference to, if not perverse pleasure in, the suffering caused to those directly or collaterally damaged.

Hell is other people.

[Burning Petard]

.' Most of these cheats operate with callous indifference to, if not perverse pleasure in, the suffering caused to those directly or collaterally damaged.'

They might even get to be elected to some high office.

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