October 2nd 2008 - On 23 September, Simon has attended the hearing of the Netherlands Institute for Sports Justice (ISR) on his metandienone case. The hearing took almost 3 hours and Simon was impressed by the professional athmosphere and attitude of the committee members. The committee is doing its work very thoroughly... [More - 2 reactions]

September 25th 2008 - In his 'just after midnight' RVU radio show Martin Simek spoke with Simon about this turbulent year. Simon spoke frankly about his coming back on the track and all the setbacks he had to cope with.

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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 - 4 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]