Shelly-Ann Fraser's sample returns positive findings

[STMB]

Oh boy!!

http://www.trackalerts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1900:shelly-ann-frasers-sample-returns-positive-findings&catid=3806:lead-stories&Itemid=82

[A.B.]

Let the drama begin. This dental pain medication, OXYCODONE is not a performance enhancer but is an opiate, I believe. Honestly, this is like a weed positive - no perf enhancement so lets move on.

People don't want to hear the details, though...

[AirMan]

I will give her the benefit of the doubt..and believe her management. 

if it is proven to be NOT a performance enhancer, still expect the media to make a big deal out of this

[Marlon]

LOL, this will be interesting.......

[A.B.]

No, doesn't have to be PROVEN to not be a performance enhancer. It isn't. No more than weed is. Banned, but def not performance enhancing.

[scorpionking]

Ato is right, its indeed an Opiate and and not a performance enhancer. Its infact the opposite as it can impair ones thinking, reactions, alertness and can actually induce sleep. This is why the drug usually comes with a warning  label that cautions in the event you want to drive or operate heavy machinery. This falls in the same class as a marijuana positive with no accepted performace inducing effects.

A warning is appropriate..

[AirMan]

Ato is right, its indeed an Opiate and and not a performance enhancer. Its infact the opposite as it can impair ones thinking, reactions, alertness and can actually induce sleep. This is why the drug usually comes with a warning  label that cautions in the event you want to drive or operate heavy machinery. This falls in the same class as a marijuana positive with no accepted performace inducing effects.

A warning is appropriate..

What type of warning you think is appropiate ?

[behind-de-bridge]

Let the drama begin. This dental pain medication, OXYCODONE is not a performance enhancer but is an opiate, I believe. Honestly, this is like a weed positive - no perf enhancement so lets move on.

People don't want to hear the details, though...

Mr Ato, why does the IAAF ban drugs that are not performance enhancing?

[behind-de-bridge]

I think this will be curtains for her career. Guilty or not, mud sticks and there will always be a cloud of suspicion hanging over her.

[doc]

Let the drama begin. This dental pain medication, OXYCODONE is not a performance enhancer but is an opiate, I believe. Honestly, this is like a weed positive - no perf enhancement so lets move on.

People don't want to hear the details, though...

Mr Ato, why does the IAAF ban drugs that are not performance enhancing?

I would think it may be banned if it allows one to train beyond their normal threshold.

[A.B.]

No there are drugs banned for ethical reasons - such as cannibis. I don't know why this is banned perhaps all opiates are.

Career over is a complete overreaction. Some will remember this, but nothing about it in my mind will leave any taint. Why would it?

[scorpionking]

Oxycodone may not be performance enhancing but it's still a narcotic and as such it has some powerful side effects and the potential to become habit forming. This then becomes currency to an ethical debate. Just like no one wants to see an athlete take something that sends them bounding down the track in 8.50 is the same way they dont want to see an athlete take something that makes them slump over the guardrail or slur their speech in a post race interview.

I think the warning to SAF should be one chiding her that her attitude is too cavalier. She has to be more responsible and whatever drug she injests into her system she bears responsibility for and must remember to declare. Failure to do so could have grave consequences and might result in her answering to a far more serious charge in the future jeoprodizing her career and livlihood!

[A.B.]

IAAF has suspended her pending a hearing in JAM. 
 

[Quags]

Look at the girl teeth ,they doh think she have to go to the dentist alot .

[scorpionking]

I don't get this. Did not the first report state that the  IAAF gave her the go ahead to compete but it was coach Francis and MVP that made the call to pull her until the situation was resolved??

What gives?