From what i have heard, from several credible sources, someone on the us women's team tested positive. As of now only the persons family, roommate, and usa swimming know, but im sure it will begin to leak out. Nothing matters though until we get results of the B test.. which could be a few days or even weeks. Not sure when the test was taken, but probably trials. I will try to post more information when I get it, but if anyone could confirm or post what they know, im sure it would be appreciated
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It could explain why her 4 other tests this year all came back negative (or a least they were not reported as positive).
Rob...do you think the testing being done is good enough to catch the majority of cheaters?
Personally I fear there is far more cheating going on than people want to accept and that for the most part the cheaters are way ahead of our testing programs.
something needs to be done about the selection process. either speed up the announcing of positive tests, or move back the deadline.
Hold the trials a bit earlier, perhaps?
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What if she was sabotaged?
what if someone slipped a little something in her water bottle?
You can't be serious. This excuse was old even in the early 90s, maybe it's making a comeback. Even you boy Floyd didn't try that one on for size.
If you know anyone who is subject to testing, you know that it is really easy to stay clean using common sense. A - you don't do drugs. B - you only accept items from people you know or trust or don't accept anything.
There's only one person ultimately responsible, the athlete. Everything else, the excuses, is just noise.
Stanford women's coach Lea Maurer, who coaches Kirk, said her standout breaststroker could petition the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee, but said the possibility of being added to the U.S. team "is most unlikely."
Another drawback is that Kirk is in Western Ireland. She and her boyfriend are vacationing on Achill Island in a house "that has no address, just a few distant neighbors and their 12 cats" Kirk wrote in a blog dated July 21. "As the days pass, I fee the burden of my disappointment less and less," she wrote. "It is by no means lighter. Instead, it's as if the exercise of carrying it and not collapsing under its weight has made me stronger . . . I hoped that Ireland could heal me and I left California shortly after I ran away from Trials . . . Missing making the Team this summer has crushed parts of me."
Now that is sad.
They are already ingesting various chemical compounds to enhance their performance, true?
No. Some do, some don't. Anyone taking supplements these days ought to be damn sure what they're taking.
"USA Swimming now can only add swimmers to the events vacated by Hardy from the available pool of talent already on the squad."
Who sets that rule? Seems like a stupid rule. It seems more logical and more fair to automatically bump up the next highest finisher.
Elise....I find it almost impossible to beleive that a coach would not be aware that something was going on here. if you oversee the training of an elite athlete on a dialy basis its hard to miss anything...again we don't know the whole story but for me i find a coach in this type of situation guilty until proven innocent. The only people I feel sorry for are the innocent temmates, coaching staff for the "O" team and family who didn't know she was a cheater.
I really hope Dave Salo has no connection because he also coached Rebecca Soni. If folks are suspicious of him, I can't help but think they will also wonder if Rebecca is being fueled. Rebecca has already overcome some health problems to make the team, so this is the last thing that she needs.
I doubt that even if the tests came back a few days earlier they would have added Jackson, Kirk, and Weir. The biggest issue would be that they probably haven't trained at all since trials - and I'd much rather put in someone like Joyce and Soni who have been at camp and maybe didn't hit their taper rather than someone who has been out of the water for two or three weeks.
It also makes me wonder if this has anything to do with adding Joyce ... the first test came back negative, positive, negative so they waited to see what happened with the b sample but figured their bases were covered if they added Joyce ... conspiracy theory???
kirk's comments
www.paloaltoonline.com/.../show_story.php
Kirk's comments are not related to Jessica Hardy. Tara's comments are from her blog - which express her OT disappointment during her trip in Ireland.
