Team GB's Lisa Dobriskey - "I don't believe I'm competing on a level playing field".
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Interesting comments from Lisa Dobriskey, British 1500m runner.
From athleticsweekly.com:
Full article here:
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/blog/london-2012-olympics-turkish-delight-or-doubt/
From athleticsweekly.com:
British athletes Lisa Dobriskey and Laura Weightman brought up the back of the field in the final. Yet rather than maintain an honourable silence, Dobriskey spoke her mind on the matter.
She told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’ll probably get into trouble for saying this but I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field.”
Full article here:
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/blog/london-2012-olympics-turkish-delight-or-doubt/
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1) The 1500m is in a right state
2) This doesn't really explain why she finished behind 9 other athletes. Surely they can't ALL be cheating......
Of course another angle is 3), everyone else knows how to run a tactical race and she doesn't [yet]
Unfortunately she must either maintain a dignified silence or provide proof
Tonight both the female 1500m winner and female Hammer winner have served bans for doping in the past :mad:. It's not really sending out the right message is it? :rolleyes:.
Perhaps she can become a tv presenter when she retires!!!!!!
Needed to be at the front of the group not the back, how did she expect to win it from the rear?
She's a below average athlete who really shouldn't bother pulling on the vest.
The person who won did serve a ban for doping so I can understand Lisa feeling angry about that.
I agree, but is the winner doping right now?
Heh...
But the rules are, once you've served your time, you can come back to the sport. It's like saying someone who has been in jail is never allowed to work again.
And unfortunately if you don't like the playing field you are not actually forced to play on it. You could go off and do something else with your time
Ok Lisa we'll take the drug cheat out of the race......you've come 8th now!
Hardly like the winner ran at a pace which affected the way the race panned out either so she can't say she had to run too fast to keep up.
They shouldn't have played the Mary Decker-Zolo Budd thing beforehand...
Lisa probably shouldn't have made these comments now, especially after she ran such a poor race, but I think everyone who knows athletics was thinking exactly the same thing today.
Very sad. We've had at least 3 athletics winners with incredibly dodgy pasts (and questionable present form).
Jake Humphreys started on CBBC after all :eek::eek::eek:
So they're always going to be one step ahead of the testers.
The testers will say they aren't, they ain't gonna admit it can be done, are they?
7,000 (or how many now) tests and only one positive?
Are all the other 6,999 athletes squeaky clean?
I doubt it.
I don't think Dobriskey is suggesting that it was the reason for her not getting a medal, she is probably just airing her frustration about the winner as many (mostly former) athletes have been doing. Also don't forget that one of the top female 1500m runners from Morocco was caught doping recently, so it's not surprising that she feels the way she does.
The trouble is, there needs to be proof positive otherwise it is all just smoke and mirrors
If she'd said it after getting within a whisker of the medal places it would have sounded even more like sour grapes.