In a message dated Fri, 8 Feb 2002 4:55:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Oleg Shpyrko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Someone should correct me if I am wrong but in the past USATF has tried to protect >Slaney and Mitchell - and were overturned by IAAF. Has anything changed to think they >wouldn't try protecting their athletes now? They definitely appear to have a conflict >of interests here.>> Of course they do. And the DLV originally tried to shield Baumann, and Moorcroft swore on his mother's grave that all the nandro Brits were innocent, and the Russian Federation gave Lyudmila Narozhilenko a lighter-than-IAAF suspension in her original steroid case. To paraphrase Tony Soprano paraphrasing the scorpion, "It's what they do!" If an athlete doesn't feel he has a federation that will stand up for him in tough times, what good is it? And please note, standing up is not equal to covering up. gh
