Et tu, Chryste?

[Guest]

The Washington Post is reporting that Chryste Gaines has tested positive for modafinil.

[MJD]

>The Washington Post is reporting that Chryste
>Gaines has tested positive for modafinil.

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/di ... hread=2412

[Guest]

Obviously modafinil is not the petty pseudo-stimulant that it was first characterized as. If so many people are taking it, it's either a masker or works in combination with another (THG?) drug, and the two work together symbiotically?
[disclaimer - total speculation on my part - accusing no one]

[Guest]

It's Ma Jureng, it's the Chinese, it's the old Eastern Block no it's the holier than thou Americans!

[Guest]

Oh yeah, like it's JUST the Americans.

[Guest]

So just who is leaking all this stuff to the Washington Post, and why to a paper that doesn't even know that track exists anymore?

[Guest]

>Obviously modafinil is not the petty
>pseudo-stimulant that it was first characterized
>as. If so many people are taking it, it's either
>a masker or works in combination with another
>(THG?) drug, and the two work together
>symbiotically? >>

Always possible of course, but I think you're overlooking the proclivity athletes have for taking anything and everything they think might remotely help them (distance runners and their Japanese hornet venom?). I suspect Modafinil is just the fad du jour. Particularly since so far "so many people" is a handful of people all in the same training group, hardly reflective of the thousands of elite athletes out there.

[Guest]

I like your explanation better than mine, he said hopefully.

[Guest]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/ ... news-alert

[Guest]

the 'expert' denied modafinil as a masker, but did I just read that hurdlers Glover and Thomas are now on the list of positives?!

[Guest]

never mind - they've already got their own thread!