August 27th 2008 - The anti-doping case concerning the traces of metandienone in Simon's urine sample is starting to resemble a similarly strange case in the USA swimming team, that of Jessica Hardy. After numerous requests, Simon has finally obtained the results of the drug tests in Portugal (7 days after the positive... [More - 1 reactions]

July 28th 2008 - The below press statement announces that Simon withdraws from the Dutch Olympic Team. He does not want to cause further turmoil for his fellow Olympic athletes from The Netherlands, so close to the Games. Simon will carefully prepare his case towards arbitration and fight for a fair chance. In this respect,... [More - 9 reactions]

July 24th 2008 - Hierbij ondersteun ik deels een persbericht wat door de atletiekunie is gepubliceerd.
Nadat ik door voedselvergiftiging ziek ben geworden in Goteborg, is mij 1 dag later ter bestrijding van vochtverlies een infuus met zoutoplossing gegeven. Er was toen reeds besloten om niet meer te starten in de... [More - 18 reactions]

July 17th 2008 - Simon has visited the B sample analysis in the IOC laboratory in Cologne with an expert in mass spectrometry. The analysis was carried out, amongst others, by Dr Geyer, the scientist who also published multiple scientific papers on metandienone-contaminated dietary supplements. The below article in the... [More - 40 reactions]

July 11th 2008 - Athletic friends and others, I want to inform you that one of the anti-doping tests I did has revealed minimum amounts of a forbidden component in my urine a few weeks ago. The compound, named metandienone, increases muscle weight and volume (not so much strenth) and is therefore popular in the body... [More - 126 reactions]

July 7th 2008 - Simon cruised to a very easy 8.26.07 at the Dutch Nationals yesterday, while taking more than 40 seconds lead to his fellow Groningen club man Olfert Molenhuis. Simon´s main competitor Dennis Licht unfortunately fell over a barrier after 600m and had to leave the race.

The title was Simon´s 12th... [More]

June 23rd 2008 - Despite sluggish legs, Simon pulled off a sweet victory in the 3000m steeple chase race of the European Cup in leiria, Portugal. With 250m to go, Simon accelerated and lost his last competitor Pieter De Smet (Belgium) to win in 8.24. The field also contained Austrian champion Martin Pröll and European... [More]

June 11th 2008 - Simon has managed to qualify for another Olympics! He needed a time of 8.20 in Cottbus, but ran much faster than that. His 8:12,50 is the 3rd fastest time in the world this year and by far the fastest by a European.

So, at the age of 39 Simon will attend another Olympics. Running in Beijing is not... [More - 36 reactions]