Wow!
Has anyone ever gotten to the bottom of the reason Christine Ohuruogu was missing so many drug tests?

Nope but im sure glad GB got the gold! X)

What is up with USA Track and Field? Only two golds after FIVE days of competition? Seriously, we need to step back and reevaluate our team. Where are the Carl's, Michael's, Gail's, etc.? Come on Allyson, pressure's on!

Congratulations to Sanya Richards for the medal! You worked hard and did your best, and we applaud you for that.

Ha Ha the chinese are taking everything .you might want to take notes whatever USAy

Its simple - the US is coming off its steroid cycle and Jamaica where they do not do independent testing is still in the benefit phase. No one cares about track anymore because everyone knows that 75% of the atheletes are using roids and other banned substances.

In response to the question about US golds in track and field, if my memory serves me correctly, most US track gold medal winners from the last decade have all been banned for some kind of drug offense or the other. Think Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, Justin Gaitlin, etc. Maybe drugs have just been taken out of the equation this time...?

Why can't Americans accept defeat graciously?

I understand competitive spirit, but this is a short article about Sanya Richards, why is there an entire line about the winners drug tests? maybe we should be grateful that the author doesn't just throw her under the bus completely and indicate that Sanya Richards is not really american, but was born and raised in Jamaica.

Shericka Williams get another medal for
Jamaica! Run Run Run Jamaica! Wow!

The drug testing machinery has improved. The feild is aparently level so the deservedly Jamaicans are chopping up the track. They have had a histroy of great talents that were somewhat overshadwo by the drug cheats of past years.
Jamaican is a third world country and is not equipped with the sophisticated scientific methids of cheating, furthermore chesting in Jamaica is an unpardonable feat. Rising to the top!

She actually wasn't RAISED in Jamaica her whole life so get it RIGHT.

In response to the question about Christine's drug tests, the testing regime is very strict in the UK. Internationally the IAAF will make 3 attempts to find an athlete and then record one miss. But UK Sport will call it a miss after just one attempt. 5 minutes late equals a miss. Or if you're not at a certain venue but at a track across town, which happened with Christine, then that's called a miss and no further attempt will be made to meet you, even if you're available. 3 misses in 18 months and it's a suspension. UK Sport also tried to give Christine a life ban from the Olympic team but failed partly because in any other country she wouldn't have those misses to begin with and therefore no suspension. Hope that helps.

I am a British Citizen and a great admirer of the USA having worked and studied there.

That said, the fact that you cannot put up a medal table with China at the top says more about you then you will ever know.

I am in Beijing to visit family and got tix for games. I am not Chinese. The Chinese crowd has been much better than I expected from past experiences.

Just in case you wonder what the Chinese crowd is like.The Chinese also cheer for EVERY athlete, regardless that they fairly cheer louder for Chinese athletes. They cheer for every athlete introduction. They cheer for every winner. They clap for every medal introduction. In events with little or no likelyhood of Chinese medals the crowd is full of Chinese.

TV will first show events with Chinese athletes, then likely medalists, then any events that happen to be on. I would possibly say the Chinese TV coverage at least as good as NBC or in European countries. Of course, any country's coverage is better with the sound turned off.

All in all, the Chinese at the Games seem to be truly participating in the events and admire all the competitors.
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Following up on haklu's comments about Ohuruogu's ban. Although there were 3 occasions when testers made random appearances and Ohuruogu was elsewhere (on the crucial last occasion it was because her normal training track was closed for a high school meet), there were many other occasions in the same period when she was tested, all with clear results. All doping control bodies that have reviewed her case have consistently stressed that there is no suggestion that she was taking banned substances, and it would have been impossible to deliberately avoid tests, since the tests are by their nature unannounced. Unfortunately, Ohuruogu has been vilified by much of the press in her own home country, who did not bother to check the facts.

Sanya Richards will likely continue to be the world #1 in this event, and will soundly beat Ohuruogu at major meets later this season. But Ohuruogu is an athlete who has outperformed in key medal races for years. US world record holder Michael Johnson predicted on British TV before today's race that Ohuruogu would overhaul Richards in the final 100m, exactly as happened.

Am I missing something here? When have the American sprinters been so dominated in the past by Jamaica? Is Jamaica getting away w/ some type of medicinal trickery? I hate 2 say it but Uasin Bolt should've had a blood sample collected immmediately after that magnificent feat in the 100m. Congrats to Sanya Richards, a bronze at this stage is a great accomplishment. Let's hope Allyson Felix is up for the challenge in the 200m. I can't wait for the 400 and 1600m relays.

Tan, what are you talking about??? Usain was tested before and after the 100m. These events are not taken for granted. Get a grip. BTW, Sanya Richards was born and raised in Jamaica. Allyson has to watch out for the 3 Jamaicans she has to run against in the 200m.

It is sad to see the envy that spews from these people. Jamaica is a dot on the map with very talented athletes. Why cant you be happy for us. We have given so much to America (just check your history and you will see how many are of Jamaican heritage). Please, it is a game (The olympic games), no need to get all nasty. Not everybody uses steroids. Certainly, no one is questioning Michael Phelps/Wariner, so why all the questions about Usain?

In the words of a BRITISH journalist re Ohuruogu's gold, she's never tested positive; but that means she just hasn't been caught. Marion Jones never failed a drugs test, but Marion Jones is in jail. This same journalist, commenting in a British national paper, also remarked on how much bulkier, muscular and veinous Ohuruogu was in comparison to the other competitors in this event. Ohuruogu claimed she 'forgot' about those three missed tests. When the British Olympic Committed, chaired by no less than Sebastian Coe, banned her for life from Olympic competition, Ohuruogu held them to ransome and threatened to run for Nigeria. I've lived in Britain for 27 years, having married a Brit for my sins. They are craven when it comes to wanting gold over the US. Trust me, if - at last year's world championships - Ohuruogu, with her ban - had been an American athlete, the BBC would have never stopped talking about their consternation. In the heptathlon, Kelly Sotherton, the Brit who finished outside the medals in that event, expressed pleasure that Blonska didn't get the gold medal, saying it's always a disappointment to finish behind a gold medalist who's suspected of not being clean. Hypocrisy? The British? They invented the word.

You may be right ExPat in some respects, the Brits can be peevish sports fans, but I think you must admit the USA get favourable coverage from the BBC with Michael Johnson in the studio. And if it isn't a Brit they're following it's an American, and if not an American then a Commonwealth athlete. Everyone else is a relative mystery, like the East Europeans, like Blonska, but although there may be unfair suspicion of some foreigners I don't think you've made a fair comparison here. Blonska actually failed a test and she's failed for a second time during these Games. The pity with Ohuruogu is again the phrase 'missed tests'. She didn't miss appointments, there are no appointments; she just missed her own schedule on random days when she could have no idea the testers would want to find her.

Firstly - Sanya Richards left Jamaica as a 10 year old and Jamaica still considers her as Jamaican regardless of the colour she wears in sporting events.

Second - the 3 Jamaicans that made the finals provided blood samples approximately 4 times before the heats started so i am very annoyed by these statements.

Please remember that the record for the womens 100m (and American) is still set at a time that few MEN can better. She could have made the mens finals with that time... Has anyone even said that the time was done under performance enhancers??? Answer That!!!

I agree with the reggae girls no one is questioning Micheal Phelp 8 gold medal, but everyone is questioning Bolt medal, let's just say when you're good you are dam good and it happend to be some of our jamacian. I would say a good 75% of the runners that compete for the usa and brit that set world records if you check the history they are mostly jamacians competing for other country. I finds that all media coverage of the jamaicans are very brief. For all you complianters get over it we are hear to stay.

For those who dont know Lenford Christie jamaican compete for brit set world record, Donald Quarrie world record holder jamaican, Den Johnston despite what happend just to name a few. I think we should be happy for all the countries that are represented and show some respect, instead of being so negative.

Jamaicans is an Island of sprinters please take some time to look into the history of Jamaica's track and field system...check out the Arthur Wint, The George Kerr, Herb McKenley all these guys before and after Helsinki Olympic in 1952....Helsinki is in Finalnd ok....this was the 4x400 metre relay with world and olympic record @ the 15TH olympiad. 1948 London Arthur Wint 400Metre GOLD,8oo meter SILVER...Herb Mckenely 400 Meter SILVER
1952 Helsinki, Finland...George Rhoden 400 Meter GOLD, Herb Mckenely 400 metre SILVER, 100 mere Herb Mckenely SILVER, Arthur Wint 400 meter SILVER. and more performances 1956 Melbourne 1960 Rome, 1964 Toyko, 1968 Mexico City, 1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, 1980 Moscow, 1984 Los Angeles,1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1961 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens......please people check your stats on how long we have been running and wining medals for just a small Island

I have done extensive research into Florence "Flo Jo" Joyner records. There is a remarkable absence of anything spectacular pre 1985. Suddenly in the run up to the 1988, with overnight muscularity she sets records in 100m and 200m.

When she died they did not do conclusive tests on her remains although her widower claims that her autopsy vindicated her, IT IS REALLY NOT SO!

With a level playing field ushered in by constant and inssiant testing the USA is not shining. How many Jamaican girls in particular have been cheated out of medals? How many times did Merlene Ottey win? How many times did Juliet Cuthbert win? And I could go on and on.

Carl Lewis now tainted by testing positive for banned substances 3 times leading up to the 1988 Olympics and then allowed by the USOC to suggests something sinister - official complicity in doping. The fact that some have come forward and returned medals should have spurred Lewis to do the same but he still shamelessly 'condemns' doping and collects big fees on the back of a tainted record.