So I'm just catching up on some of the old racing (Triathlon Live is free at the moment to subscribe to if you didn't know)
I've gone through the World championships in chronological order, those old school among you will remember how dominant Simon Lessing was back then....
##########Race Spoiler Alert##########
Lessing drops everyone with about 300 meters to go and pulls a gap of about 5/6 secs GAME OVER you think.....
Then all of a sudden this dude who's just been dropped Dmitriy Gaag (who was not among the pre race favourites) starts this sprint, closes the gap and completely blows Lessing away leaving him in his dust.
I've never been one to doubt a performance before and I usually defend athletes to the hilt who are accused of wrong doing based on absolutely nothing (innocent until proven guilty) but this aroused my suspicions so I decided to do a bit of research.
Low and behold I stumbled across this...
https://www.triathlon.org/...s_2-year_ban_on_gaag
The dude was caught out and banned for 2 years for doping in 2008!
Was there any suspicion over that 99 performance at the time?
Should a doper get stripped of all honours won?
Did Simon Lessing ever comment and raise doubts over that performance?
I've gone through the World championships in chronological order, those old school among you will remember how dominant Simon Lessing was back then....
##########Race Spoiler Alert##########
Lessing drops everyone with about 300 meters to go and pulls a gap of about 5/6 secs GAME OVER you think.....
Then all of a sudden this dude who's just been dropped Dmitriy Gaag (who was not among the pre race favourites) starts this sprint, closes the gap and completely blows Lessing away leaving him in his dust.
I've never been one to doubt a performance before and I usually defend athletes to the hilt who are accused of wrong doing based on absolutely nothing (innocent until proven guilty) but this aroused my suspicions so I decided to do a bit of research.
Low and behold I stumbled across this...
https://www.triathlon.org/...s_2-year_ban_on_gaag
The dude was caught out and banned for 2 years for doping in 2008!
Was there any suspicion over that 99 performance at the time?
Should a doper get stripped of all honours won?
Did Simon Lessing ever comment and raise doubts over that performance?