knockoff nige

Anyway....

For those who really only watch the Olympics for the 100m men's sprint, set your alarm for 11:23am Monday 15 August AEST. $1.60 on Usain Bolt to win, $3 on Gatlin. Could be the easiest $0.60 you'll ever make.

knockoff nige

Also $7.80 on a new world record.

OzTennis

Frankly it's a joke that Gatlin can still run - he's been rubbed out twice for a total of 5 years already.

knockoff nige

From my perspective if all runners are drug free and it's a great race then alls good with me.

OzTennis

'Drug free' - when they went back and tested 2008 Beijing and 2012 London samples a few months ago with 2016 technology (samples which were previously declared clear at the time) they found a lot of the 'clean' athletes were cheating. The cheats are ahead of the authorities unfortunately and many who win Rio medals will be cleared and years later found to have beaten the system. Tennis luckily, Sharapova's etc notwithstanding, has been relatively free of the scourge of drugs but the same can't be said for athletics, cycling etc (which is a shame for Bolt, Froome etc who excel and most people think 'what are they on').

GarryP

Realistically we can be pretty certain that all russian athletes are drug cheats. Similarly, I doubt that there are many of the chinese team that aren't on drugs (there seems to be a national psyche that cheating is expected). And the US as well, win at all costs.

Put that together and you have to assume that the majority of medals are won by drug cheats.

So it's a competition of how well the doctors can arrange the drugs to avoid detection - the actual events are secondary.

OzTennis

But of course all British and Aussie competitors are drug free and not competing on a level playing field. As a sage said to me down the street - the Olympics and Tour de France are ****ed forever.

GarryP

Personally I'd expect that a good 80% of the competitors are drugs cheats - I was just pointing out the most obvious groups that everyone will assume are on drugs, and how that means the majority of medals must be won by cheats.

In theory you could fix it - but not by the testing they do.

OzTennis

The testing is a PR exercise mainly and tries to convince the public that all is being done to catch the cheats. As with many things illegal the crooks can make more than the authorities can spend on detecting.

Lizzy Armitstead the British cyclist who was defending her gold won at London, should have been rubbed out for Rio after missing 3 drug tests. However she managed to get a ban overthrown on a technicality (protocol wasn't exactly followed on one of the 3 missed tests so she was allowed to compete as she'd only missed 2) but there was relief all round when she didn't win a medal at Rio. She trotted out the excuses last week - 'I missed one test because my phone was turned to silent, I missed one test because I didn't tick a box and enter details of my location and I had a family illness so I missed another'. Of course she's not definitely a doper by missing the tests but there's a good chance she is and it doesn't give the right impression.

knockoff nige

Gatlin is probably as clean as the cleanest at these Olympics as he would be doing far more testing.

Amazulu

Awesome effort from the Aussie women's rugby sevens

Well done ladies

Dreamy

Been super impressed with the Rugby 7s overall... jeez, none of them take any prisoners.

Amazulu

There are indeed some scary women playing that's for sure!

OzTennis

What his teammate thinks:

Rio Olympics swimming gold medallist Lilly King lashes out at drug cheats including teammate Justin Gatlin

The point is he shouldn't be there.

OzTennis

We have a gym at our club and have many of the local ladies rugby team training there - both very impressive what they do and scary as well but good luck to them, they are very dedicated to their sport.