Sunday Times reports rampant doping at London Marathon

Athletes with suspicious blood scores are said to have collected more than £3m in prize money for winning city marathons.

Fresh revelations from the Sunday Times claim the suspicious results, which constitute nearly 30% of winners in the men’s and women’s London Marathon races between 2001 and 2012, were a combination of tests carried out at the time of competition and at other points during the careers of the athletes in question.

“We proceed to be on the forefront of anti-doping measures for marathon runners as we’re decided to make marathon operating a protected haven from doping however we can’t do all of it on our personal and rely closely on the IAAF”, Bitel stated.

Blood test results from more than 5,000 athletes were leaked to the media last week, suggesting that a third of all medallists in endurance events at the Olympics and World Championships had suspicious test results which were not followed up.

“We believe it is incumbent on the IAAF to demonstrate that all untoward blood test results from athletes of any nationality have been thoroughly investigated and all appropriate action taken. We have never been informed of an adverse test from an athlete tested at the London Marathon between 2001 and 2012, or subsequently”. Those athletes that have been caught… have only been caught because of the tests at the London Marathon.

The bio-molecular perpetuity wrongdoing for “abnormal hematological curves” by Shobukhova confutes her succeeds in Chicago in 2009, 2010, and 2011 along with London in 2010, the two different World Marathon Majors assortment game brands from the time, worthy of usd500,000 each. The newspaper reported that London and Chicago marathon organizers blamed IAAF and their respective national anti-doping agencies for not letting them know that some athletes “were competing with blood so heavily doped that it threatened their health”. The IAAF needs to do more to stop people from starting (a race) that have blood values that are out of normal range. The outcomes have been analyzed by antidoping specialists Michael Ashenden and Robin Parisotto.

In London, seven first places, six second and seven thirds were taken by athletes with blood tests deemed suspicious by experts who analysed the leaked database.

“Athletes who have got nothing to hide won’t fear having their results in the open”, Bitel said.

“Sometimes that can happen and it can be taken out of context”.

UKAD chief executive Nicole Sapstead defended her organization’s biological passport system while insisting on her duty to protect the athletes’ right to privacy.

“We’d encourage British athletes to call for this demonstration of the integrity of the IAAF’s systems, rather than opening up their personal medical data to the public with the attendant risks that this might create”.

Britain’s Sunday Times and Germany’s ARD say the results from the database of the sport’s governing body, the worldwide Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), show evidence of widespread cheating among long distance runners.

“WADA is committed to protecting the confidentiality of athletes; and, therefore, has asked its Independent Commission to commence its investigation with urgency”.