whisperNaija at 14-07-2013 09:41 PM (10 years ago)
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US sprinter and the world's second fastest man, Tyson Gay, has tested positive for banned substances and has pulled out of next month's World Championships in Moscow.
Gay, 30, said he was notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency on Friday that his 'A' sample from an out-of-competition test in May had returned a positive.
Gay didn't reveal the substance in a phone conversation from Amsterdam on Sunday but said: "I don't have a sabotage story. I don't have any lies. I don't have anything to say to make this seem like it was a mistake or it was on USADA's hands, someone playing games. I don't have any of those stories. I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down." Tyson is now awaiting the result of of his 'B' sample.
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UNKNOWN123 at 14-07-2013 11:11 PM (10 years ago) (m)
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Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson also tests positive for banned substances…..
The list reads like a Who's Who among the world's best sprinters: Jamaican Asafa Powell, the former world-record holder at 100 metres. American champion Tyson Gay who went out of his way to promote himself as an anti-drug athlete. Jamaican Sherone Simpson, who has a gold and two silver Olympic medals to her credit.
Word came Sunday that all three had failed drug tests. "A sad day," one former track official called it — and certainly a day that punctured the myth that the oft-troubled sport has cleaned up its act.
"I am not now — nor have I ever been — a cheat," Powell said in a message released through his Twitter account. The 30-year-old Powell, whose 100-meter record of 9.74 stood until Usain Bolt beat it in 2008, was calling for an investigation as to how a stimulant called oxilofrine entered his system and caused a positive test at Jamaica's national championships in June.
Simpson, who tested positive for the same stimulant, said she "would not intentionally take an illegal substance of any form into my system."