Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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Cheat Gatlin booed again as he gets gold for beating Bolt Lifetime bans are the only way to clean up sport Medal six years late for Jess after a doper robbed her of it
shake his hand at the end of the presentation. Without criticising Gatlin directly, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said: “There should be very stringent penalties for people who use performance-enhancing drugs in sport. “Usain has managed to do all these things without even the slightest suggestion of any performance enhancing.”
He said life bans are “the only way you’re going to fully ensure people don’t cheat in the sport”. Ex-british sprinter Darren Campbell, stripped of a 2002 European Championships relay gold and 2003 World silver because of team-mate Dwain Chambers’ doping abuse, was uneasy about Gatlin being booed, but said: “I totally understand why the crowd reacted that way.”
Many thought Gatlin’s career was over in 2006. The World Anti-doping Agency code said a second positive test should result in a lifetime ban unless the athlete gives a compelling reason
OF course Justin Gatlin should not have been in a position to become sprint champion of the world again.
The American should have been given the hook back in 2006, 11 years before he dethroned Usain Bolt, when he tested positive for testosterone – his second offence.
But let’s not pretend. Gatlin is but one of countless athletes who have sought unfair advantage down the years. And they should all get it in the neck. This is a otherwise. His 2001 suspension was due to an amphetamine in attention deficit disorder medication he had taken since he was a youth.
Gatlin has now told how he plans to be around for years to come – with his son urging him to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Jess Ennis-hill glowed at the London Stadium, originally known as the Olympic Stadium, with her gold last night.
She had finished second in the heptathlon critical time. IAAF boss Seb Coe has kicked out Russia for state-sponsored doping. That took balls. Now the rest of the sport must step up. As Jess Ennis-hill said: “If we have lifetime bans we don’t find ourselves in this situation. And we wouldn’t have the booing.” behind Russia’s Tatyana Chernova at the 2011 World Championships.
But Chernova was later discovered to have been taking steroids.
Sheffield star Ennis-hill, who is pregnant with her second child, joked she could no longer fit into her Team GB kit for the ceremony.
She is now a three-time world heptathlon champion. She also won Olympic gold at the stadium in Stratford, East London, in 2012.
While Ennis-hill retired from athletics last year, Bolt has one last hurrah planned. He says he will retire after these championships – hoping for gold in the 4 x 100m relay on Saturday.
Despite his failure to beat Gatlin, Bolt was reported to have been at West End nightspot The Box Soho – once billed as Britain’s seediest VIP club – until the early hours yesterday.