130 of 182 riders dropped out of a recent AMATUER bike race in Spain when anti-doping agents showed. Seems like athletes of all levels in Spain have issues with PEDs.
My country needs to take this more seriously. The should be banned from 8 to 10 years. With that kind of sanctions athletes would think twice before doping
They should be banned for life. That said, we have know idea how many countries appear to be taking this seriously while simply covering up positives like the US, Russia and many more
If you cheat, you should get all titles striped from you In a minimum of a five year band. Or just let the athletes cheat because of anything else it’s unfair to the rest of the competitors.
@@torontocitizen6802Of course there are clean athletes. The vast majority is. When you are on this level, you are subject to unscheduled out of competition test, and almost every top 3 performance at major championships are tested. The tests are extremely sensitive. Way more than just 10 years ago. Doping should NEVER be allowed or encouraged (making special events for “enhanced” athletes with huge prizes). It trickles downward. Once you normalize doping, will young athletes beg for these to compensate for lack of talent or discipline, and ambititous coaches might dope athletes without consent. This possibly happens already, and it will happen much more often, once you get cynical and categorically states, that everyone dopes.
@@StangspringDK I’m not convinced that the athletes that test clean are actually clean. It just means that they are better at cheating and weren’t caught this time. All sports should just fully embrace roping and stop pretending that they can ensure clean athletes. Too much time and money is being wasted on futility.
@@torontocitizen6802 You overestimate the "skill" of athletes, to actually defeat the system. Not saying that it can't be done, but the level of medical control that is required, the "luck" of not getting randomly tested at the wrong time, and get the timing exactly right prior to championships is substantial. As stated, the levels that are detectable has increased significantly, and the substances that can be tested for, have also increased. The vast majority of athletes you see in major championships, even those that occasionally grabs a medal, scrape by economically. They don't have the resources to hire expert medical help. They are not medical experts themselves. Not everyone is in NOP (as it was under the wings of Salazar and Dr. Brown). The cynical approach, that the system doesn't work, and everyone does it, will ruin sports. I know, that some parents are that ambitious on their kids behalf, and will gladly get their kids whatever they (or the parent) desire. One thing that might be rampant, is the use of TUE's. There are probably a few unwarranted TUE's out there. I don't know if you are a parent to an aspiring athlete, but what would your response be, if he/she requested PED's?
@@StangspringDK gimme a break. tests are very easy to pass, especially for endurance athletes, they take very specific compounds which are hard to detect unless you have inside information when and what exactly the athlete is taking. if you don't take dope, and this sport is what brings food to your table you're just a fool IMO
Weren't there two other Spaniards banned recently (maybe late 2023), a women's 100m hurdler and a pole vaulter? They were both top-level in their events, able to reach semis in world-class competitions. Both those cases revealed the Spanish doping authorities had some questionable practices in their home country documentation as the two were caught in foreign competitions with other countries doing the testing.
I do believe many are natural. The difference between natural and enhanced athletes within bodybuilding and powerlifting is insane. We don’t see that difference in athletes. And my logic here is not that means they aren’t doping but rather that if they are then I don’t care because the difference between enhanced and natural is so small.
I hope this is satire. There is a huge difference between natural and enhanced athletes. And even so with your “logic” a small difference of .3 seconds in a 1500 meter race can be the difference between winning gold and losing.
This happens everywhere.. I'm pretty certain that some of the contestants in the recent Miss World competition were using *appearance enhancing cosmetics*... is terrible.
I find it funny that if two elite guys like this are doping, why can't people imagine that probably most elite athletes from all over the world are also doping!
SO why aren't they caught though? I'm not saying that some of the ones that aren't caught are not doping, I bet some are, but not all. He is doping because he's not as good as the top athletes and he wanted to get closer to them. I did cycling (mountain biking) and I do running and I know many cases of guys that dope, and we're talking about amateurs. Some people don't give a damn about their health, all they care is performance to be among the best in local events.
I am 100% against doping and PEDS in the sport of track and field and cross country/road racing ect . The problem is that we get so used to super shoes and intense training and the question laid in front of us is “what if”. That “what if” is why people get addicted to anything and that could be PEDS, drugs, phones, and other forms of instant gratification. I think the only solution to this is to keep it the way body builders compete and there should be a place for these athletes. I DO NOT think we should have a doping Olympics or doping worlds finals however I do think we need to have races where these athletes can compete either unattached for no points or rewards or in their own division against dopers.
As a former elite athlete who left my sport due to being tired of competing with chemically enhanced “athletes,” I can attest that the VAST majority are cheating. I can’t even watch sports anymore.
@@k1ngn1ko Lance Armstrong never failed a test. How is Ingebrigtsen beating all the juicers if he is clean then? I'm sorry kid but IRL isn't like the movies. IRL, the bad guy wins. And boy does Ingebrigtsen win. Take nothing away from him though they are all on it so it is fair. Just don't tell me a natty athlete could run the kms Jakob runs on a normal day and recover to do it all over again the next day.
@@JohnSmith-pn1vvJakob has been running for so long now, and seeing what his training is like, it is easy to see how he can be the greatest without doping. I would be extremely surprised if I found out he was taking something to enhance his performance.
The Enhanced Game will finally remove the ongoing hypocrisy. All professional athletes use pharmaceuticals to recover and enhance their performance. 100%. Just like the nonsense with "amateur" athletes prior, it should be corrected.
I mean realistically yeah, you don't break records or win races without PEDs period. Especially running. Accept that and racing is sort of clean again, well not clean, but fair.
False. Most athletes don't cheat. In reality, 30% of them probably do or probably have. Most athletes rise to the top being clean because they grow up to resent cheating and strive to be the best. There are the weaker minded individuals that are groomed or do anything to win that cheat for the wrong reasons. But most are clean. To reach the highest level requires training and consistency that no normal human can appreciate unless they experience a few weeks of trying to train at the intensity and volume it takes..
@@christophersmith3254 Every single cheating athlete swears that they are clean. I don’t trust a single one and it’s best to assume that they are ALL doping. Sports should just embrace the truth. Doping is just a part of all sports.
To be honest i don't care. I bet every one of your favorite athletes in all sports is taking peds. Just remember that these are just the athletes that got caught.
personally im fine with doping in sports, almost everyone in the history of the Olympics is on something just some are on more and some are just better at hiding it i dont get why we disallow doping and things like certain shoes and swimsuits, when the olympics is about showing the potential of humans and that should include drugs and technology then we can have a separate event where everyone is tested at complete random and we keep all the tech the same forever
Shoes and swimsuits are available to everyone. Doping protocols are very secretive and are only available to people with the right connections and deep pockets. Instead of putting everyone on the same footing, allowing doping would just end up with the athlete with the combination of "best" doctor and willingness to take serious health risks winning every competition.
That is an argument but you have to understand swimsuits and shoes don't have major health risks. A lot of athletes dedicate their lives to a sport. It is kind of sad when people assume they take PeD's even when they are clean. Don't get me wrong there are people who take PeD's and get away with it. I couldn't imagine almost qualifying for the finals and then later figuring out you were cheated out of it by someone who was too lazy to actually race fair. Shoes and swimsuits can be obtained through being a good athlete and getting a good sponsorship. I think having to separate leagues could be cool but it could lead to magor heath risks and many people (including me) wouldn't stand to watch it. (However, I do think as long as there are no electric compounds involved and not too much leverage added shoes and swimsuit technologies should advance on their own terms. )
@@kovy689 Doping protocols are high level science and there's no way to mandate that everyone gets the same quality of doping. Look back at cycling during the Lance era, sure everyone was doping, but only the guys with the right doctors (e.g. Michele Ferrari) had any chance of winning because they had the best doping strategy. In high dollar sport, doctor's proprietary protocols are going to be secret and sold to the highest bidder. Everyone acknowledges that Jan Ulrich was a better talent than Lance (and also was doped to the gills), but Lance had the better drugs so he won. It made the sport less fair and more dangerous.
Please do not make assumptions from such a shallow analysis about the professionalism of a federation. 2 cases do not imply a whole country is corrupted, Spain is a decent size country, americans.
130 of 182 riders dropped out of a recent AMATUER bike race in Spain when anti-doping agents showed. Seems like athletes of all levels in Spain have issues with PEDs.
That's f-ing insane.
Sounds like the India track meet.
Was there another reason for them dropping out? What race was this?
Am I living in only country in the world which is running out of competition testing aka home testing? All dropped 132 should be tested..
Think about how Club running in Spain is extremely high level, with lots of the best Kenyan cross country runners. Sad to think about
My country needs to take this more seriously. The should be banned from 8 to 10 years. With that kind of sanctions athletes would think twice before doping
They should be banned for life. That said, we have know idea how many countries appear to be taking this seriously while simply covering up positives like the US, Russia and many more
Why 8-10 years?! That’s absurd
Crazy years
Lifetime ban.
@jp05598 its just a sport. They can do regular jobs like the masses. They don't need the option to compete again
Yared Naguse - 3:53 to 3:43 in one year - FKNG dirty
Clean as a 🚽
@@XDF745 dirty bird
Seems likely that Katir was also taking this substance, that's why he refused to permit testing.
I'm shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
I would be more shocked if an elite level runner wasn't on PEDs.
Those damn spaniards
I wouldn't go that far.
Deport
bro cant go a video without mentioning jakob ingesbrigston
Why should he? Jacob ran a 7:50 two mile and one of the cheating Spaniards pushed him to the limit last year in Budapest maybe causing the injury.
If you cheat, you should get all titles striped from you In a minimum of a five year band. Or just let the athletes cheat because of anything else it’s unfair to the rest of the competitors.
Don’t they all cheat? Is there such a thing as a clean athlete?
@@torontocitizen6802Of course there are clean athletes. The vast majority is. When you are on this level, you are subject to unscheduled out of competition test, and almost every top 3 performance at major championships are tested. The tests are extremely sensitive. Way more than just 10 years ago.
Doping should NEVER be allowed or encouraged (making special events for “enhanced” athletes with huge prizes). It trickles downward. Once you normalize doping, will young athletes beg for these to compensate for lack of talent or discipline, and ambititous coaches might dope athletes without consent. This possibly happens already, and it will happen much more often, once you get cynical and categorically states, that everyone dopes.
@@StangspringDK I’m not convinced that the athletes that test clean are actually clean. It just means that they are better at cheating and weren’t caught this time. All sports should just fully embrace roping and stop pretending that they can ensure clean athletes.
Too much time and money is being wasted on futility.
@@torontocitizen6802 You overestimate the "skill" of athletes, to actually defeat the system. Not saying that it can't be done, but the level of medical control that is required, the "luck" of not getting randomly tested at the wrong time, and get the timing exactly right prior to championships is substantial.
As stated, the levels that are detectable has increased significantly, and the substances that can be tested for, have also increased.
The vast majority of athletes you see in major championships, even those that occasionally grabs a medal, scrape by economically. They don't have the resources to hire expert medical help. They are not medical experts themselves. Not everyone is in NOP (as it was under the wings of Salazar and Dr. Brown).
The cynical approach, that the system doesn't work, and everyone does it, will ruin sports. I know, that some parents are that ambitious on their kids behalf, and will gladly get their kids whatever they (or the parent) desire.
One thing that might be rampant, is the use of TUE's. There are probably a few unwarranted TUE's out there.
I don't know if you are a parent to an aspiring athlete, but what would your response be, if he/she requested PED's?
@@StangspringDK gimme a break. tests are very easy to pass, especially for endurance athletes, they take very specific compounds which are hard to detect unless you have inside information when and what exactly the athlete is taking. if you don't take dope, and this sport is what brings food to your table you're just a fool IMO
1:45 it was the European cross country champs, not worlds
Weren't there two other Spaniards banned recently (maybe late 2023), a women's 100m hurdler and a pole vaulter? They were both top-level in their events, able to reach semis in world-class competitions. Both those cases revealed the Spanish doping authorities had some questionable practices in their home country documentation as the two were caught in foreign competitions with other countries doing the testing.
He had such a bright future. I Remember his performance when he came 2nd to Jakob.
He was cheating In my eyes, it doesn’t matter anymore. It doesn’t count.
Hard to tell if it was bright future or had been cheating.
It's easy to have a bright future or "talent" if you dope.
Now you know why his future seemed so bright.
@@XDF745 Exactly
I’d be more surprised if anyone was natural.
I do believe many are natural. The difference between natural and enhanced athletes within bodybuilding and powerlifting is insane. We don’t see that difference in athletes. And my logic here is not that means they aren’t doping but rather that if they are then I don’t care because the difference between enhanced and natural is so small.
@@biguzivert Your first sentence made me laugh so hard. Aw man, my stomach hurts. lol
I didn’t bother to read the rest after that.
I hope this is satire. There is a huge difference between natural and enhanced athletes. And even so with your “logic” a small difference of .3 seconds in a 1500 meter race can be the difference between winning gold and losing.
@@biguzivertHAHAHAHA!!!
I don’t believe that there is an all natural elite athlete in any sport.
Katir like magic juice!
We should allow performance enhancing drugs. The stigma around them is insane.
This happens everywhere.. I'm pretty certain that some of the contestants in the recent Miss World competition were using *appearance enhancing cosmetics*... is terrible.
Off to the drug olympics
This is good.
I find it funny that if two elite guys like this are doping, why can't people imagine that probably most elite athletes from all over the world are also doping!
SO why aren't they caught though?
I'm not saying that some of the ones that aren't caught are not doping, I bet some are, but not all.
He is doping because he's not as good as the top athletes and he wanted to get closer to them.
I did cycling (mountain biking) and I do running and I know many cases of guys that dope, and we're talking about amateurs.
Some people don't give a damn about their health, all they care is performance to be among the best in local events.
My buddy Andrew Richard can strict press 525 pounds drug free with the right genetics you can break records naturally
I am 100% against doping and PEDS in the sport of track and field and cross country/road racing ect . The problem is that we get so used to super shoes and intense training and the question laid in front of us is “what if”. That “what if” is why people get addicted to anything and that could be PEDS, drugs, phones, and other forms of instant gratification. I think the only solution to this is to keep it the way body builders compete and there should be a place for these athletes. I DO NOT think we should have a doping Olympics or doping worlds finals however I do think we need to have races where these athletes can compete either unattached for no points or rewards or in their own division against dopers.
If it's proven that it was premeditated cheating, then it should be a lifetime ban, from the very first offence.
No excuses.
Better free Mo.
They a cheat they just haven't gotten caught
As a former elite athlete who left my sport due to being tired of competing with chemically enhanced “athletes,” I can attest that the VAST majority are cheating. I can’t even watch sports anymore.
Ingebrigtsen is doped too
He takes all his tests so have fun proving that lmao
@@k1ngn1ko Lance Armstrong never failed a test. How is Ingebrigtsen beating all the juicers if he is clean then? I'm sorry kid but IRL isn't like the movies. IRL, the bad guy wins. And boy does Ingebrigtsen win.
Take nothing away from him though they are all on it so it is fair. Just don't tell me a natty athlete could run the kms Jakob runs on a normal day and recover to do it all over again the next day.
@@k1ngn1ko C'mon....
drug testing is a joke, drug development is ahead of drug testing, Chinese swimmer in 2000s come to mind@@k1ngn1ko
@@JohnSmith-pn1vvJakob has been running for so long now, and seeing what his training is like, it is easy to see how he can be the greatest without doping. I would be extremely surprised if I found out he was taking something to enhance his performance.
Fuck sakes this is ridiculous, too many people doping and there would be plenty more out there.
They all cheat.
Now do Jamaica. They are on track to send at least four dopers to the Olympics this year.
Abs they’re?
The Enhanced Game will finally remove the ongoing hypocrisy. All professional athletes use pharmaceuticals to recover and enhance their performance. 100%. Just like the nonsense with "amateur" athletes prior, it should be corrected.
Spain the new Russia 😂
Very disappointing
How is this terrible? Expose all the cheaters!!!
Next will be UK athletes getting exposed
what athletes? UK has like 2 top athletes. Maybe Netherlands and Norway
It is easy to blame and make fun when you do not know the reality of things
The reality is that he's been caught doping. Unless you are talking about alternative realities...
Not proper Spanish
I am convinced that every single athlete in every sport got there and stays there by cheating. There is no such thing as a clean elite athlete.
I mean realistically yeah, you don't break records or win races without PEDs period. Especially running. Accept that and racing is sort of clean again, well not clean, but fair.
False. Most athletes don't cheat.
In reality, 30% of them probably do or probably have. Most athletes rise to the top being clean because they grow up to resent cheating and strive to be the best.
There are the weaker minded individuals that are groomed or do anything to win that cheat for the wrong reasons. But most are clean.
To reach the highest level requires training and consistency that no normal human can appreciate unless they experience a few weeks of trying to train at the intensity and volume it takes..
@JohnSmith-pn1vv that's false news.
To dismiss elite performances and label them as cheating does no good.
@@christophersmith3254 Every single cheating athlete swears that they are clean. I don’t trust a single one and it’s best to assume that they are ALL doping. Sports should just embrace the truth. Doping is just a part of all sports.
@@christophersmith3254 I never dismissed them, you did. I accept that nobody can make it to the olympics without PEDs.
Many = large number.... I think you'd be better using the word; some... less bigging everything up please.
moroccans
"Spaniards"...
To be honest i don't care. I bet every one of your favorite athletes in all sports is taking peds. Just remember that these are just the athletes that got caught.
They're all being subjected to the same testing regime.
Both are from Marrocos 😮
Free mo
personally im fine with doping in sports, almost everyone in the history of the Olympics is on something just some are on more and some are just better at hiding it
i dont get why we disallow doping and things like certain shoes and swimsuits, when the olympics is about showing the potential of humans and that should include drugs and technology then we can have a separate event where everyone is tested at complete random and we keep all the tech the same forever
Shoes and swimsuits are available to everyone. Doping protocols are very secretive and are only available to people with the right connections and deep pockets. Instead of putting everyone on the same footing, allowing doping would just end up with the athlete with the combination of "best" doctor and willingness to take serious health risks winning every competition.
@@JRunsBut doping would no longer be secretive and hard to find if it were made legal in the first place. So it’d be much easier for all athletes.
That is an argument but you have to understand swimsuits and shoes don't have major health risks. A lot of athletes dedicate their lives to a sport. It is kind of sad when people assume they take PeD's even when they are clean. Don't get me wrong there are people who take PeD's and get away with it. I couldn't imagine almost qualifying for the finals and then later figuring out you were cheated out of it by someone who was too lazy to actually race fair. Shoes and swimsuits can be obtained through being a good athlete and getting a good sponsorship. I think having to separate leagues could be cool but it could lead to magor heath risks and many people (including me) wouldn't stand to watch it. (However, I do think as long as there are no electric compounds involved and not too much leverage added shoes and swimsuit technologies should advance on their own terms. )
@@kovy689 Doping protocols are high level science and there's no way to mandate that everyone gets the same quality of doping. Look back at cycling during the Lance era, sure everyone was doping, but only the guys with the right doctors (e.g. Michele Ferrari) had any chance of winning because they had the best doping strategy. In high dollar sport, doctor's proprietary protocols are going to be secret and sold to the highest bidder. Everyone acknowledges that Jan Ulrich was a better talent than Lance (and also was doped to the gills), but Lance had the better drugs so he won. It made the sport less fair and more dangerous.
@@JRuns Yea, that’s the whole point of legalizing it. All top athletes can freely use the best of the best juice.
Please do not make assumptions from such a shallow analysis about the professionalism of a federation. 2 cases do not imply a whole country is corrupted, Spain is a decent size country, americans.
Ban Spain