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Drug test rules upset Isinbayeva


Isinbayeva is against the new dope testing requirements
Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has spoken out against the new rules about athletes being available for drug testing.
World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) rules say athletes on the national testing register must be available for an hour a day three months in advance.
"It's impossible to know where we'll be next week or next month," she said.
"We are not magical that we will know where we will be in two months - this is unfair, it does not work."
Isinbayeva, who is also the world record holder, was speaking ahead of her appearance at Saturday's UK Indoor Grand Prix at the Birmingham Indoor Arena.

"People who never take drugs will miss the appointments with doping control three times and be disqualified for two years," she added.
"But people who take drugs every day but are always in place, they will never catch them and they will continue in the sport."
The new rules have produced a mixed reaction from sportsmen and women, with the likes of Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu saying the rules are necessarily tough, and tennis players Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal coming out against them.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has defended the regulations, saying he understood athletes concerns, but that sport "has to pay a price for suspicion".

i'm tired of hearing athletes complain about this... it's the cost of doing business.

you can update your whereabouts ANYTIME of day via text, email, or logging on to usada's website. yeah, it's a hassle, but i'm glad EVERYONE is required to do it. the US has been more stringent that most other countries about drug testing for a long time. and now that russia, the carribean, and some eastern european countries have to start doing it, i'm happy. if we're lax on this, then the sport will never be percieved as "clean". i will do whatever my governing body says i need to do in order to compete. no one is saying it's fair, but it's worthy and necessary.

trey

Well, USADA is perhaps most efficient. Though, not without flaws. However, the non- USA athletes use ADAMS site and it crashes on a regular basis. So, if you are taking off for a six-meet tour and constantly recieve an <error> message and your flight leaves in the morning and technical support folks for the site are unaware or many instances . It's shite!

And speaking of USADA, an athlete recently submitted updated information five days prior to leaving and it has apparently been lost in the shuffle. I think the real issue for athletes is that the thought of being subjected to being penalized for missing a test because of administrative "flaws" is perhaps stressful and a bit scary when you have a demanding competition schedule that keeps you away frequently and constantly changes.

I agree with Trey.

We could compare and contrast the track and field rules with the NFL:

T & F: Let them know where you are going to be for one hour per day 3 months in advance

NFL: Inform players of random drug tests two weeks in advance.

I think we got it right.

I have no problem with the regulations that are put on athletes in the US, I think its great we are held accountable the way we are but... Today the USADA showed up at my apartment at 6pm to test me, but my time slot was set for 6am, I guess i got lucky i had just gotten home a half hour before that. I dont have a problem being somewhere when they ask me to be but am i supposed to tell them where i will be every hour of the day?

Hollis wrote:I have no problem with the regulations that are put on athletes in the US, I think its great we are held accountable the way we are but... Today the USADA showed up at my apartment at 6pm to test me, but my time slot was set for 6am, I guess i got lucky i had just gotten home a half hour before that. I dont have a problem being somewhere when they ask me to be but am i supposed to tell them where i will be every hour of the day?

you're still subject to regular "random" testing. just like it was before all this. you should have still had to update your schedule on the location forms before you gave them your 1 hour time slot. mine is 10pm, cause i'm always in my apt in bed... always.

Yeah your right, so what if they had come and I wasn't there? Would I still get a missed test?

Absolutley, USADA's mistake would suddenly become your problem. You would then appeal that there was a discrepency if it is indeed that they confused time slot.

Hollis wrote:Yeah your right, so what if they had come and I wasn't there? Would I still get a missed test?

Hollis wrote:Yeah your right, so what if they had come and I wasn't there? Would I still get a missed test?

you're still held accountable for your whereabouts. just like it was before your "1 hour timeslot".