Ramzi Meets with IOC over Positive Drug Test, from Inside the Games, Note by Larry Eder

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Per a story in Insidethegames.com, five Olympic athletes, including gold medalist at 1,500 meters, Rashid Ramzi, spoke today with an IOC panel, regarding the reasons why they were caught
using performance enhancing drugs. In Ramzi’s case, he has tested positive for his first test, and his second sample for CERA, the newest generation of EPO.
Ramzi’s lawyer, Maurice Suh, who also represented convicted performance enhancing drugs users Justin Gatlin and Floyd Landis. Suh suggested that the test for CERA might not be up to drug protocals.
The complete story can be found at http://www.insidethegames.com/show-news.php?id=6266. We encourage our readers to link to www.insidethegames.com, which is doing a superb job at keeping readers up to date on the London 2012 developments and also other Olympic developments.
We at runblogrun.com applaud drug testing. If the programs work, there will be positive tests. We encourage out of competition testing, and salute the IOC , IAAF,
USADA and WADA for their diligence.
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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