I am all for keeping the integrity of sports by testing for performance enhancing drugs, but an American Sprinter is getting 2 years for missed tests. And the rules for “whereabouts” are extremely “Big Brother”.
Agreed. You only need a “tester” who’s on your side and gives his/her own sample on your behalf.
Or in this case, have a tester who’s not on your side and will make sure you miss your appointment (aka write down a different hour so that you’re not home) or in this case where they didn’t call the athlete.
I don’t think it is a majority, but quite a few.
The “out of competition” testing can be borderline draconian.
There are also some sports that pretty much look the other way or have such lax penalties that the punishment is no deterrent.
I follow MMA and Jon Jones once hid under a ring in his gym for hours to avoid a tester that came into give him a random U/A.
There are several documentaries on it, and Lance Armstrong’s ESPN special talks a lot about it.
It is pretty interesting to me.
My daughter like watching it too. Science and biology are a thrill for her.
Reading the story it appears the guy is kind of an airhead.
Could you or I put together a quarterly itinerary of every day?
One of the misses he was literally at a meet with testers there and they wouldn’t allow him to test.
The last one he was shopping and has receipts.
Now, to be fair, if my livelihood depended on me being in a certain place at a certain time, I would set up a reminder on my phone, but there is not even a hint of him trying to “dodge” the testers.
I’m not clear on all the details, only skimmed. But it seems there are a certain number of possible days when he could be tested and must let them know where he’d be. But he wasn’t where he was supposed to be on those days. Three times. Yes, it requires some organization, but if I’d already screwed up twice and knew that I was facing a ban, I think I’d have skipped the shopping trip.