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Gresca Patética Entre Dos Héroes Olímpicos. EL PAÍS AIU to Extend Gresca patética entre dos héroes olímpicos. EL PAÍS AIU to extend blood steroid profiling strategy for Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships following key CAS decision. INSIDE THE GAMES Scientific progress defended after Howman critique of anti-doping system. INSIDE THE GAMES Why is UK Anti-Doping so active in testing youth footballers? BBC Shock as banned Kenyan athlete competes in race. DAILY NATION Premiership in denial despite four players testing positive for cocaine. THE GUARDIAN New study points to systemic shortfalls of scientific integrity in anti-doping. PLAY THE GAME Haile Gebrselassie claims Mo Farah row began when he refused doping scandal suspect Jama Aden access to his hotel as he insists Brit was 'trained' by disgraced Somalian coach. DAILY MAIL EL PAÍS 25/04/2019 Gresca patética entre dos héroes olímpicos Los maratonianos Mo Farah y Gebrselassie se enzarzan en acusaciones mutuas y chantajes por un robo en un hotel CARLOS ARRIBAS En vídeo, las declaraciones de Mo Farah y Gebreselassie. VÍDEO: AP-EPV Las carreras de fondo se corren a ritmo pero se resuelven al sprint, se dice siempre. O en un cuadrilátero, a mamporros, se añade ahora cuando se contempla la gresca terrible y patética en la que se han enzarzado Haile Gebrselassie y Sir Mo Farah, dos de los más venerados atletas de fondo. El mundo del atletismo asiste con la boca abierta, entre sorprendido y dolido, a una pelea entre campeones cuyas razones nadie entiende, que no se sabe dónde acabará y que se inició el miércoles en la conferencia de prensa previa a la maratón de Londres, que se disputa el domingo y en la que Farah es uno de los favoritos. En ella, sin venir a cuento, sin que nadie le preguntara, Farah, británico de 36 años, comenzó contando que se había preparado durante tres meses en Etiopía pero que el día de su cumpleaños, el 23 de marzo pasado, le robaron de la habitación del hotel Yaya Village 3.000 dólares, dos teléfonos y un reloj Tag Heuer que le había regalado su mujer. “Y lo peor”, añadió, “es que Gebrselassie, que es el dueño del hotel, no hizo nada por ayudarme. Ni respondió a mis mensajes. Y solo quiero que asuma la responsabilidad del robo”. Al ataque directo, que consideró gratuito, Gebrselassie, de 46 años, respondió pocos minutos después con un comunicado en el que desmentía que se hubiera evaporado. Contó que colaboró con la policía y que tuvo que aguantar el enfado de sus empleados porque cinco de ellos estuvieron detenidos durante tres semanas en comisaría hasta que se demostró su inocencia. También dijo que Farah era un ingrato al que hacía un descuento del 50% por ser él quien era y que encima se había ido sin pagar los extras de su estancia, que ascendían a 3.000 dólares. “Y el único mensaje que recibí de él parecía antes que nada una amenaza, un chantaje”, añadió. “Me decía: ‘Querido Haile, quiero informarte de que estoy muy decepcionado de que no hayas hecho ningún esfuerzo para encontrar ni dinero robado ni, especialmente, el reloj... Tienes que saber que no soy responsable de lo que diga en la conferencia de prensa de Londres ni de cómo pueda influir en tu personalidad o en tus negocios. Saludos de un amigo muy decepcionado. Sir Mo’”. Y, no contento con ello, Gebrselassie, uno de los más grandes de la historia del atletismo etíope, de la estirpe de Abebe Bikila y Kenenisa Bekele, y exitoso hombre de negocios, prolongó con dureza su contraataque recordando cómo, precisamente, él le había salvado a Farah de una detención policial unas semanas antes. Cuenta Gebrselassie que estando en el gimnasio un día de enero, Farah se mosqueó con una pareja y agredió a patadas y puñetazos a ambos. “La policía le quería detener, pero les pedí que no lo hicieran”. Las relaciones de Farah, héroe de los Juegos de Londres, con la prensa británica no se podrían definir como fluidas. Al atleta, que llegó de Somalia, huyendo de la guerra, cuando era un niño, se le ha recordado últimamente que le gusta rodearse de personalidades sospechosas por sus vínculos con el dopaje, tales como Alberto Salazar, el entrenador con el que se prepara en California, o Jama Aden, el técnico de origen somalí detenido hace unos años por los Mossos en Sabadell en una operación contra el dopaje. A la acusación de haber agredido a una pareja, Farah respondió por medio de su abogado: “Un etíope se estaba burlando de los ejercicios de Mo en el gimnasio e intentó agredir a su compañero de entrenamiento. Mo le defendió soltando el puño, pero luego se tuvo que defender de una mujer, que le atacó armada de unas mancuernas”. La afición acostumbra a medir a sus héroes por sus marcas y por sus títulos, a recordar el maratón en 2h 3m 59s de Gebre, en 2h 5m 11s de Mo; los cuatro títulos olímpicos y seis mundiales en 5.000m y 10.000m del británico, los dos y cinco del etíope. Ahora, perpleja, olvida los cronómetros y las medallas, y espera reteniendo el aliento a ver quién da el golpe de KO. https://elpais.com/deportes/2019/04/25/actualidad/1556208279_653835.html INSIDE THE GAMES 25/04/2019 AIU to extend blood steroid profiling strategy for Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships following key CAS decision By Michael Pavitt The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced plans to extend its blood steroid profiling strategy ahead of the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, following a landmark decision. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) endorsed the method used by the AIU in a decision announced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The case saw blood steroid profiling used to determine cases against Ukrainian sprinters Olha Zemliak and Olesia Povh, who were banned based on testosterone measurements in blood. Both athletes had appealed the decisions to CAS, having been sanctioned after samples taken prior to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were found to contain an excessive concentration of testosterone. They were provisionally suspended ahead of the 2017 World Championships in London. The appeals were largely based on the method used, with their defence claiming their samples had been “wrongly used for research” and arguing it had not been approved by WADA. These assertions were rejected by WADA. The CAS decision, referring to the method used, stated there “can be no doubt on the evidence in these appeals that it is scientifically valid, and this in itself was not disputed on behalf of the athletes”. Zemliak was handed an eight-year ban from the sport, with the Ukrainian having served a two- year doping sanction in 2009 following a positive test for norandrosterone. Povh, a bronze medallist in the men’s 4x100m relay at the London 2012 Olympics and Daegu 2011 World Championships, was hit with a four-year ban. Both athletes have been retrospectively disqualified from the Rio 2016 Olympics. AIU chair David Howman welcomed the CAS verdict and stated the body would intensify its use of the blood steroid profiling ahead of this year’s World Championships in Qatar’s capital city Doha. “We take note of the CAS decision which is a confirmation that our profiling strategy to detect the use of exogenous testosterone was scientifically valid and robust,” said Howman. “We are also very grateful for WADA’s support of our blood steroid profiling strategy and their important role in defending the appeal before CAS. “Our success in this case, from detection to prosecution should act as a deterrent to anyone in any sport considering trying to cheat in this way.” https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1078388/aiu-to-extend-blood-steroid-profiling- strategy-for-doha-2019-world-athletics-championships-following-key-cas-decision INSIDE THE GAMES 25/04/2019 Scientific progress defended after Howman critique of anti- doping system By Michael Pavitt Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director general David Howman has been criticised for his claim anti-doping is stuck in the past by the director of a WADA-accredited laboratory in Ghent. Howman, who worked for WADA from 2003 to 2016 and is now chairman of the Athletics Integrity Unit, critiqued the anti-doping system last week at a Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) Conference in London. He claimed some of the processes, such as urine testing, are almost the same today as they were in the 1970s. The New Zealander stated the number of positive cases remained the same each year and claimed real cheats were not being caught by current testing methods. In particular, Howman claimed urine testing had not advanced much and that it was easy for athletes to deceive urine tests. "We've worked out other ways of doing forensic science in terms of solving crime,” he said. "Why aren't we doing something more innovative? "My worry is that we still do it because it's the way to build up numbers, not the way to catch the cheats. "There's a misguided view that perhaps it's deterring people. "Well, it's catching the stupid ones because they just are stupid. "But it's not catching the real cheats." AIU chair David Howman criticised a lack of innovation in testing in a speech last week ©Getty Images In an interview with Reuters, Professor Peter van Eenoo claimed it was “incredible that somebody said this”, asserting that progress had been made. The laboratory director claimed cheats had adapted to advances in science by using different substances or reducing doses. He claimed the rise in athletes being caught in retesting of samples from Olympic Games also highlighted how science had advanced.
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