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Michael Rogers wins 2014 Giro Stage 11 - picture LaPresseMichael Rogers awarded Olympic bronze for Athens 2004 time trial
Michael Rogers has been awarded a bronze medal for the individual time trial in Athens – 11 years after competing in the race. The Australian rider originally finished fourth but was promoted to third when Tyler Hamilton was stripped of his gold three years ago for doping offences. Even so, it took until this week before the medal was presented to him.
After admitting to having used performance enhancing drugs during his career, Hamilton wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2012, offering to return the gold medal he had won. It was subsequently awarded to Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia with American Bobby Julich taking silver.
The IOC passed a new rule as part of its Agenda 2020 reforms last year and is making an effort to honour clean athletes who are awarded Olympic medals after others have been disqualified following doping cases. A ceremony was therefore held for Rogers at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne. IOC President Thomas Bach, Vice-President John Coates – who was head of the Australian team at the time – and International Cycling Union (UCI) chief Brian Cookson were all in attendance.
"When I reminisce about that day 11 years ago in Athens, my first reaction is that of a smile,” said Rogers. “This bronze medal gives me great satisfaction and adds something tangible to my great memories."
Rogers himself was briefly suspended from racing for a doping offence in 2013. The Tinkoff-Saxo rider tested positive for clenbuterol after winning the Japan Cup but argued that this had been caused by eating contaminated meat in China. The UCI eventually concluded that there was a “significant probability” that this was the case and cleared him to return to racing.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
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Let us hope Mr. Rogers has a clear conscience.
no I am suggesting as Sky do that they cook their own food. Can you confirm if any other team member was found positive as well ?
I have searched for it and nothing on that. So he was just unlucky to be the only team member to be like this AND the only rider to eaten the meat int he whole peloton.
Pull the other one.
As others have said look at the list a who who's of dopers and he was the only one clean ha ha
Hilarious! Getting caught bad, Omerta good!
Erm - didnt Bobby Julich admit to doping?
And, lets be honest, im sure Viatcheslav Ekimov was no angel either.
Also, looking at some of the other names in the top 10 of that event it might be tricky to find *anyone* who deserves *any* of the medals.
Give the gold to Stuart Dangerfield!
I don't think Rodgers is without taint. It seems pointless to award it. I sort of think Hamilton should get a medal for honesty.
Alain Baxter(scots skier) was never given his olympic medal back, even after being exonerated ( he used a Vicks inhaler bought and used in the USA for a cold, the European one didn't contain banned substances, and the substance is neither a stimulant, or a masking agent) at that time the investigation also managed to show that over 100 USA medal winning athletes had failed drugs tests and never been sanctioned, including Carl Lewis.
This stinks of PR in the wake of the 'revelation' that the IAAF have been ignoring positive tests.
Yep I felt so bad for Alain Baxter at the time, best result ever by a British skier just to be undone by something as naff as that. You said he was exonerated but was he formally reinstated or was that a step too far for them?
To clarify my point, Alain Baxter was reinstated, fully exonerated at every level and stage, but never got the physical medal returned, that was my point, why are they bending over backwards and making a show over Mick Rogers - it's all PR.
And for CP It wasn't the IOC it was the American athletics anti doping team that were found to be selecting what positive results they reported I.e. Anyone not from the USA.
Indont know all that much about it, just that it was plainly a cover up that went a lot deeper.
I think you are confusing the IOC with the IAAF. The UCI must be loving the deflection towards athletics at the moment so why they would like this being brought up? I don't know. Unless you think the IOC are doing this to help the IAAF.
The fact is that they are all at it.
but the ultimate liability for what is in your body rests with the athlete. You may have believed that excuse, do I, nah ...
These athletes whether Rogers or Baxter know the consequences and surely they should be double checking. If rogers for example had contaminated meat then all his team did as well and would have failed ?
Bearing in mind Rogers used to ride for TMobile ...
Are you seriously suggesting that before eating in yet another hotel, all pro athletes send off a sample of the food for analysis? They would all die of starvation before some of the results come back.
I think perhaps it would have been better to just not give that medal to anybody...
Contaminated meat must be one of the great excuses ever for doping. Some may even believe this was true.