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Excellent article in Fairfax this morning
In August 2013, Australian javelin thrower Jarrod Bannister received a 20-month ban for failing to attend an out-of-competition test. The only problem was this – Bannister was asleep in the hotel where he told the authorities he would be. He paid the price for being forced to share a twin room to save Athletics Australia money and the hotel being unable to simultaneously record the names of two room guests on its computer system.
This shows just how ****ed the system is. When I discussed this with a work colleague this morning, his response as "well, we don't know if that's true, he might have been somewhere else", which shows how ****ed his system is. It's amazing how people are happy to take as gospel anything negative about us, but anything that isn't is "unverified" or "propaganda".