Yes, it was Gatlin, was having brain fade 
As you say I vaguely recall he seemed to have reasonable grounds of appeal but thought he got caught a second time for something else?
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Second time was standard doping. I always felt he seemed to treated like some pantomime villain when he was no worse than the other dopers he was up against. I remember hom being booed in the UK but Yohan Blake cheered 
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Half makes sense - amphetamines are used as ADHD meds and are banned in competition but allowed out of competition. But don’t know why the wouldn’t have just got a TUE.
As for the second one wasnt he the origin behind the testosterone gel sabotage theory that Sky were ordering the T to investigate? 
Gatlin claimed his physio was deliberately sabotaging him by rubbing testosterone onto him.
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PureGym?
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Yep, this is the one in Northallerton.
There aren’t as many bodybuilders here as there are in my usual gym on Brixton Road - it’s mainly scrawny teenagers
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Bodybuilding becoming the biggest source of new blood bourne virus infections. Survey a few years back suggested 15% had shared needles with other users.
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Wow, really?
Who doesn’t know that sharing needles is a bad idea?
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Those who’ve grown up in world where HIV/AIDS is like any other disease and now curable. The same is happening with smoking and suntanning. Gen-Z have not physically seen people with the horrendous lung and skin cancers like we did so they don’t seem to believe what horrible diseases they are.
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Same in the Puregym I’m at. Diabetes and GLP1 users? 
Surely there isn’t much benefit to be taking your PEDs around your workout? Just do it at home, no?
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That’s what I was thinking when Whisk posted that sharps poster; but maybe the needle sharing is the answer.
It’s a communal activity where they get the stuff and pass the needle round at the gym, what could possibly go wrong 
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You only have to look at " some " hyrox podiums
Less than people think but muscle monsters running 18 min 5 k"s ?!
Yeah mate of course you are natural
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Where are we putting ‘research chemicals’ aka peptides on the PEDs scale?
FYI I have zero interest in using them. Just curious what public opinion in here was
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I’d probably put it on the same shelf as Russia’s ‘special military operation’
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