Compare and contrast.....drug bans in baseball and cycling

PBo
PBo Posts: 2,493
edited February 2012 in Pro race
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/b ... =hp_t12_a2

sounds an odd decision to me based on the info in the story....wonder if it'll go to CAS too.....

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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,131
    http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2012/story ... ars-nobody

    http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/76083 ... suspension

    http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/ ... r-baseball

    I've actually got into the MLB in the last few years, but their doping policy is, er,....well not great. A 50 day suspension, what's that? Out of a 162 game season......

    It would be like giving a cyclist a 4 month ban from October - January....
    All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."
  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    The self righteous ar*e is larging it about procedure and how he's been wronged, when there isn't the slightest evidence that his sample was tampered with. MLB should appeal it to CAS, but I suspect they're afraid of the players union. Owners will take on the union over money, but I suspect the drug testing is a publicity concern rather than a real issue for them. Team mates are saying this fully vindicates him (Braun), and using the case as a stick to beat the testing regime, with complaints about insufficient notice of tests. I love to watch baseball, but it's got such a long way to go in terms of doing it right with drugs. Not least the fact that if the positive was upheld his ban would have been less than one third of a single season.
  • cajun_cyclist
    cajun_cyclist Posts: 493
    You know, I thought right away, They caught this Braun fellow but I read someone say at the time that his testosterone levels really were odd and a bit crazy. Now, I wonder if there might have been something to what this person originally said about the Testosterone levels now that Braun has been let off the hook. Not that I'm standing up for Braun, I'd really need to read the case but just wanted to point out that there were some sceptical ahead of time.

    But yes, it would be good if MLB dealt with this in some sort of uniformity with WADA.

    Okay, read a bit up on this, they contest the "chain of custody" and won. They blame the person who took the sample but an athlete tested generally signs and seals it himself or something like this, the little jar of specimen. Ryan Braun says nothing like "I did not do this", his whole defence is criticising the testers and chain of custody.
    The CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says the two-day delay is inconsequential

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/b ... =hp_t12_a2

    They may still make something of this, furthermore, "rumour" goes the custodian of the sample might be able to bring action as to how his name is being besmirched. This is total speculation.

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