Talk:David Jenkins (sprinter)

Copy vio
still copy vio even at this version, significant chunks taken from the website, especially notable the highly marketing speak "Sprinting : It runs in the family" header. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:56, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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A Fairer assessment of his career and doping disgrace, without the corporate speak no doubt put on here by his own company, can be found here - http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/david-jenkins-1.html

"Already a multiple Scottish champion at 100 m, 200 m and 400 m, David Jenkins was still just nineteen when he made his name by winning an unexpected victory at the 1971 European Championships. Running in an outside lane he blasted off maniacally and then just held off the threat of Italy’s Marcello Fiasconaro. He narrowly missed the Olympic final in Munich but had the consolation of a silver medal behind Kenya in the relay. Jenkins added another European gold in 1974 in the relay though he failed to defend his individual title and he left the 1974 Commonwealth without a medal of any colour. His best time was recorded in 1975 when he scored a rare British success at the US National Championship and in doing so became the first Briton to break 45 seconds for the event. A contender for Olympic honours in Montreal he did reach the final but faded to seventh in the home stretch whilst his hopes of another relay medal were ended with a dropped baton in the heats. More often injured than healthy in the four years before Moscow he did at least win a Commonwealth Games gold medal with the Scottish sprint relay team in 1978 but it was a surprise when he returned to form in time for the 1980 Olympics. He participated in his second Olympic final where again he placed seventh, but only made fleeting appearances over the next two seasons and elected to retire at the end of 1982.

He returned to public attention and notoriety five years later. Jenkins, who had lived in California for many years, was revealed as one of the masterminds behind a smuggling operation that at one time was reported as being responsible for 70% of the steroids trafficked into the USA. The scheme involved the setting up of a production facility in Mexico. He also disclosed that he himself had used steroids for the latter part of his career. Sentenced to seven years in prison he served just nine months and after his release set up a dietary supplement company with another convicted drug felon Dan Duchaine. Duchaine, the self-styled “Steroid Guru” was an outspoken proponent of the use of drugs in sport and was credited with popularising the use of such illegal substances as GHB (4-Hydroxybutanoic acid) and Clenbuterol in American sport. After Duchaine’s death Jenkins became CEO of the company and is reportedly a multi-millionaire." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.184.215 (talk) 12:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Hair
Does anybody know if that is his real hair, or is he bald like his brother Roger? Has he had implants? If he went bald, is that because of using steroids? Thanks in advance to anybody who knows.

David Jenkins appears to be editing his own Wikipedia article
I added a COI tag to this article. David Jenkins appears to be editing his own Wikipedia article and is deleting items. Stink.

Is there evidence for this? I see the allegation is unsigned and seems to reflect the emotional opinion of the author. SteveCree2 (talk) 07:20, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

David Jenkins was an extraordinary athlete. His Olympic Silver doesn't really do his promise justice. In the UK, at least, he was very famous. He's also done very well as a regular businessman (his brother is quite a famous businessman in the UK). It's an interesting life story and this page feels v negative POV. It's essentially all about his conviction, which is fair game but the treatment here looks quite personalised; perhaps by unhappy athletics folk? I'm quite new to editing and don't want to delete unnecessarily here, but this page needs to be more balanced. SteveCree2 (talk) 07:15, 20 July 2021 (UTC)


 * You mean to say that his brother Roger is quite an INFAMOUS businessman, don't you??? His only "fame" comes from that front page, column one, article in The Wall Street Journal which exposed the "double dip" tax scam that he was using to generate a billion pounds a year profit for Barclays - that was basically his business line at Barclays.  Once it got exposed, it was game-over for that scam (and it caused Bob Diamond to begin being labelled the "unacceptable face of banking", which eventually cost him his job as CEO of Barclays when the LIBOR scam erupted).  The only other thing that Roger Jenkins is "famous" for that I know of is that he got that Muslim woman pregnant - I was working at Barclays Capital at the time, and everybody was laughing at him because of it.  But I admire the Muslim woman - why? - because after marrying him, she somehow got him to move not just to the United States but to California, which is a no-fault divorce state, so when the divorce came up, Roger had to give her half of his net worth, no matter what.  What was funny was Roger telling the media that he was "delighted" to give her half of everything - and anybody who knew Roger from his reputation at BarCap knew that Roger must have been livid.


 * What I want to know is this: Did David Jenkins' silver medal come from using steroids?  I mean, he went into the steroid business after retiring from competing (he went into it BIG time).  Where did his interest/knowledge of steroids come from if not from his athletic career?  Also, is that where his brother Roger's totally bald head comes from?  Did Roger use steroids?  Lots of people at BarCap gossiped about whether or not he used them.  It is a well-known fact that steroid use, particularly large steroid use, results in various changes to a man's body including often going bald.  Roger was as bald as a cue ball.  It also keeps fat off you, and Roger didn't have an ounce of fat on him.  Did Roger use steroids?  If so, does he still use them?  As for Roger getting divorced from his Muslim wife (and having to give her half of everything), and then marrying a third wife, a Brazilean piece of ass half his age, WELL DONE!!!

The comments directly above are negative POV, sexist and arguably racist. Other than that, they are not worthy of further comment. SteveCree2 (talk) 14:43, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Worth mentioning, too, I think, that the comment about Jenkins editing his own page is unsigned and segues into my own comments. Just flagging that my comments there begin at "David Jenkins was....". SteveCree2 (talk) 07:18, 20 July 2021 (UTC)