Is it true that they did not do any drug-testing at IMAZ (not even the Top 3)?
That would be really sad and a step in the wrong direction…
On the other hand I do not expect anything from WTC (except making wads of money)
WTC or IMNA do not do drug testing. USAT does. the current ‘rule’ is that one IMNA is chosen every year and they test there, but that’s it.
A couple of years ago at the pro briefing at IMFL someone asked if there would be tests (everyone thought it was an odd question…to say the least) and the answer was no.
Testing the top 3, including for EPO is about $1000 ($300 each). That’s $2000 per race. That’s not a lot of money for IMNA or WTC but maybe is for USAT.
Any race can drug test. In the USA the race director has USAT to oversee the process who in turn hires USADA (US Anti Doping Assoc) to conduct the test. USASA follows the rules and protocols as set by WASA (World Anti Doping Assoc). If IMNZ did not test, it was the race director’s decision, not WTC. WTC does not organize IMNZ. THe NZ tri federation should be involved in the process for that race.
I want my USAT fees be used for that, please!
Why can’t USAT get WTC and IMNA to pay for it?
This really rubs me the wrong way, if you are right. It should be IMNA and WTC who cough up the money (at least to test athletes who go to the big dance).
You see I get agitated…
I am talking about Ironman Arizona.
Last time I looked that was still in the USA.
Didn’t they test at ImNZ either?
A couple of years ago at the pro briefing at IMFL someone asked if there would be tests (everyone thought it was an odd question…to say the least) and the answer was no.
Nice, who asked? If they’d been asking me, my response would have been “We are now.”
Oops, my mistake. I’ve been staring at the computer screen for most of the day and obviously its time to go eat dinner. I don’t know why IMNA did not test at IMAZ.
My understanding, based on what I recall Gordo saying, is that they tested 1st and 3rd in the male division at IMNZ.
Based on article in the attached post, three men and three women were tested at IMNZ as part of a contractual obligation at IMNZ.
http://www.coachgordo.com/forum2/upload/index.php?showtopic=3135&hl=tested
I have a hard time believing there was no testing at IMAZ, but you would have to ask someone who finished on the podium.
I have a hard time believing there was no testing at IMAZ, but you would have to ask someone who finished on the podium.
Sergio?!
would have been first and third for the women at imaz and second for the men. my understanding is the protocol flip flops (male to female) from im to im (south africa was under a different contract so there have been four qualifers – nz, ralphs, aust and then az), which means sergio would not have been tested. however, i have not read anything official that indiciates that this is the protocol, but rather interpolated it from other posts.
Flip-flop it must have been. Winner says he wasn’t tested.
Anyway, I hate flip-flops… and the predictability of drug-testing
How about if Barry Bonds is forced to pay for everyone else’s drug tests? That’d be fair, right???
Fair? Fairness? In professional sports? HAHAHAHA!!!
Compared to his weaseling out and all the Charity-BS going on to cover things up, it would be a “conviction” to my liking.
Can’t wait to have him pay for my test.
If you go read the online sanction for US races, you’ll see that the race director can request, or USAT can say, that a given race will be tested. When it is USADA does the testing, but in either case the race director foots the bill.
I heard the Monk was out back of a pub smoking some dewbies with some local ASU college kids the night before IM-AZ and he got away with it scott free! He may even have a picture for us…
barefoot no doubt, hence the bloody mess his feet were the next day.
I’m not saying yes, and I’m not saying no. I am saying I wasn’t alone in Spleef-City.
There was no drug testing in IMAZ. I wasn’t surprised, drug testing in the US is almost no-existant at every level. No wonder the two greek sprinters were staying in the US before the Olympics, it was safe…
yep…and wait tomorrow that they announce that Tyler is cleared and allowed to race 
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Hello all,
USAT doesn’t drug test either. The drug testing authority in the United States is USADA. I may be wrong, but am pretty sure that USADA (which answers to WADA–World Anti-Doping Association) is funded through IOC/USOC.
Race directors do not foot the bill, USADA does. Race Directors and race owners (read IMNA and WTC) don’t pick and choose what races and which athletes are tested. USADA does.
WADA and USADA are meant to function independently of the national governing bodies for a variety of reasons. Think about it.
Have a great Boston Monday