IAAF Drugs scandal

Photographic Quiz.

 

Photo:- you guess Blog the number!

Question:-  What is the name of this athlete who's photo was recently sold on e-bay? What club did he belong to? And why don't the cups on the table fit with the gentleman in the photo?? [It may be of interest to you Blog, that I have interviewed the gentleman and he was quite tickled with the reason Blog, I kid you not].

Dear Blog,

                Well with all the breaking  news about the shenanigans going on in the world of athletics and drug fiddling, it would be invidious of me to pile more brown stuff on the growing pile of brown stuff, wouldn't it Blog?

BUT

What goes around, comes around.......

So let us enter the world of make believe .. IMAGINE ..... a sort of 'Round Britain Quiz' on the radio set with cryptic clues to solve  ... not that any of the clues contain a single grain of truth of course, but a bit of fun anyway. Something to do as the weather is so uninviting.

Here we go ....

Welcome to Round Britain Quizzle. I  am your host for the night and the first question is for the Gone West Team, the question has been  sent in by a Mrs. Wooden Fence from Barking who has invented all the facts just for our entertainment.

"What Official is linked a rumoured failed drugs test by a gold medal winner at the last Olympics with advice given to someone who might refuse to allow their athletic testing profile to become public with the holiday plans of another gold medallist who could not be reached by the press for a quote on the said profiling refusal, and the goings on in an American athletics training camp?"

The Gone West team is a little confused so ...

A clue

Think about who was charged with keeping the press out of the equation when the imaginary positive test was provided and was also involved in finding a solution as to why a positive might occur so that the drugs testers could be kept quiet, at least until after the Games when it would be forgotten?

Still no ideas at the Gone West Team. Well I will throw it open to the other teams. North by North South, have you any thoughts as to where this might lead if it were proved to be true, which it won't be of course.

Yes Gilbert, you are correct by saying that the photographs in the press do portray a personal connection.

Yes Lady B., there is a sex scandal involved which was kept very low profile and the national press, although reporting the alleged under age goings on, never made the connection. For a bonus mark, why do you think the connection was never made? I say this is good fun, pity nothing like this ever happens in real life.

Well teams, we are not doing too well on this question, so what I think I will do, is let it be this week's question for the listeners on the radio and I will give you the answer next week. [If I can think of one 'cos it's all made up] So it good night from the teams, 'Goodnight', 'Goodnight', 'Goodnight' and its goodnight from me, your quiz master for the evening, Frank Linn Englebert. 'Goodnight'.

As your announcer, could I ask any listener who has any questions about imaginary events of the 70s like the above, to not get in touch please.

        Tarrah, Blog.

                                          Colin