Football showing the way to us all !!!!

guv001
guv001 Posts: 688
edited March 2009 in Pro race
For those of us who see other sports as weak on the fight against doping check this out.. Nice to see WADA so well regarded as the rule setter.

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developin ... bouts+rule

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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Blimey. You'd think that with "a team-sport athlete, who is present at the stadium six days out of seven, and thus easy to locate", the whereabouts system would be a piece of cake. Evidently not.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I got forwarded this today from a footie fan. Amazing someone in the Mail would actually write something vaguely sensible

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... oblem.html
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited March 2009
    Football (and I'm a fan*), especially its authorities and big clubs, are so caught up in their own greed that they'll do anything to appear clean - and it's certainly not. They always hide behind behind the 'it's a skill sport, doping wouldn't help' while ignoring the athleticism required these days and the number of goals in the last ten minutes.

    FIFA's 'collective location' rule is all very well, but what about that player who is 'rested' or 'has a slight groin strain'. Where's he? It's the ones who aren't at training or playing that need testing.

    Having said all that, I think that WADA's changes to the whereabouts system are disgraceful - taking all the responsibility away from themselves and putting it on the athlete.


    * West Ham, since you ask. The only premiership team with Italian doctors, which is a worry.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    ....And another thing. Has anyone noticed that there's a British sports team (not football) that in a six month period has had two players die while training, a third have his heart stop for 30 seconds during a routine operation and a fourth contract Crohn's disease.

    This may just be bad luck, but it did remind me of mid 90s cycling.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    iainf72 wrote:
    I got forwarded this today from a footie fan. Amazing someone in the Mail would actually write something vaguely sensible

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... oblem.html

    Didn't he used to write for The Times? Might explain it.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    RichN95 wrote:
    ....And another thing. Has anyone noticed that there's a British sports team (not football) that in a six month period has had two players die while training, a third have his heart stop for 30 seconds during a routine operation and a fourth contract Crohn's disease.

    This may just be bad luck, but it did remind me of mid 90s cycling.

    I did note that 3 of those seemed fairly odd. But a post mortem was carried out on Adam Watene, revealing nothing obivous (unless the W. Yorks coroners office are in on it) and their reserve player died play a game from a spinal cord injury, so that's just unfair to insinuate. It was a freak, horrible accident.
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  • robthehungrymonkey
    robthehungrymonkey Posts: 616
    RichN95 wrote:

    FIFA's 'collective location' rule is all very well, but what about that player who is 'rested' or 'has a slight groin strain'. Where's he? It's the ones who aren't at training or playing that need testing.

    I think 90% of the time footballers are injured, they are at their clubs doing specific rehab, even if it's a groin strain or something they'd be assesed daily.

    I do think they should put more effort into anti-doping, but I don't the "whereabouts" system is the way forward, and think FIFA have a point that all the players are in one place for the vast majority of days.

    Surely they can just vastly increase the random tests?
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Rebecca Adlington's commented adversely on those over-paid prima donna's objections to WADA's requirements too.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Read in todays 'indy' that the need to advise whereabouts for one hour each day is going to be challenged under Civil Liberties legislation !!!!!!!!!!!.

    Poor darlings having to be put out like that. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    I love the bit about football being a team sport. In the end it is still a sport comprised of individuals, who are all on individual contracts and thus the potential benefits from taking drugs (i.e. more money and a spot at a better club) are huge. I guess that they don't understand the fact cycling is actually a team sport too....

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