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And here's a list of Sanctions from the USADA going back to 2001. All the Whereabouts Failures are after 2010 because the rules only began in 2008. Some names are familiar (Lance Armstrong), most are not. Naturally this list includes only US athletes. Each country would have their own list. On this US list there are 16 athletes with Whereabouts Failures resulting in suspensions for 1 to 2 years, and 5 athletes with Missed Tests resulting in either ineligibility (1) or suspension (4).
This means that it is not easy to find acceptable excuses for Whereabouts Failures and Missed 60-minute windows. So you're wrong again. If next you ask how many athletes successfully provided excuses then I will grant your ability to ask questions for which no publicly available data exists.
Percy, if you look at a list of sanctions you will only see the athletes who were sanctioned, not those who were able to escape sanctions. So that data doesn't - and cannot - show how easy it is to provide excuses for whereabouts failures.
I note also that it seems to take 3 whereabouts failures for sanctions to be triggered, so obviously athletes can get away with one or two.
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