Drugs in other sports and the media.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    dish_dash wrote:
    vaguely on topic... springs in shoes according to one Ross Tucker...
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... s-marathon

    He'll be having a go at clap skating boots too soon.
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  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    Isinbayeva on new RUSADA advisory board. No idea what she is advising on....

    https://www.rt.com/sport/379723-yelena- ... ory-board/


    WTF is going on with some of the comments on that site !
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    RT is the foreign arm of Russian state propaganda.
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  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand on BT Sport: "If you look through that Barcelona squad, they have all achieved things.

    "But I am sure this game will be there as one of the best they have played in. The fitness to press the way they did - there was a bag of emotions in that game."

    Lucky that football is a game of skill and there would be nothing to gain from doping...
    https://gibworth.mypixieset.com
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    ... and I'm sure that there's absolutely no chance of anyone being bribed to throw a game either.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    bompington wrote:
    ... and I'm sure that there's absolutely no chance of anyone being bribed to throw a game either.

    or even an Olympic gold medal :0
  • johnboy183
    johnboy183 Posts: 832
    Very little coverage on the Beeb

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39222518
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,579
    It is a joke that individual players aren't made to be responsible for their own whereabouts data.
  • johnboy183
    johnboy183 Posts: 832
    Certainly a contrast to cycling (Lizzie D excepted)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Dorset Boy wrote:
    It is a joke that individual players aren't made to be responsible for their own whereabouts data.
    The top players do. The clubs have to fill out training whereabouts so that the fringe/reserve team players who are not in the main testing pool can be found.

    However, testing is so infrequent that a top player could list anywhere and not get three strikes.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/r ... story.html

    Apparently the average NFL team prescribed 5,777 doses of NSAIDs and 2,213 controlled medications to players in 2012. I assume controlled meds means "something that would need a TUE". Makes tramadol abuse look a bit tame...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfl-abuse-of-painkillers-and-other-drugs-described-in-court-filings/2017/03/09/be1a71d8-035a-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html

    Apparently the average NFL team prescribed 5,777 doses of NSAIDs and 2,213 controlled medications to players in 2012. I assume controlled meds means "something that would need a TUE". Makes tramadol abuse look a bit tame...
    Controlled meds means prescription meds I would think.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Unlike cycling NFL doesn't have media and watchers rabid to nail athletes, coaches and managers to more crosses than Kubrick used on the set of Spartacus

    So it'll all be good.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    If you read through the article, some of their emails were pretty brazen about beating the enforcement people. If you imagine the reaction if the Mail published an email from say Freeman about beating the UKAD inspectors... Makes you think.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    American sports not giving a sh!t about doping shocker.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    A nation where the national sport leaves as much as 1/3 pros with serious brain damage. Like they care.

    A staple column on baseball: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/ftw.usatod ... eroids/amp
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  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    So tennis really showing how not to reward doping

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/39246421

    Good on Wozniacki for speaking out.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Ban for Russian doping doctor

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/39253411

    No mention of who the athletes are, nor any mention of following up to ban the athletes in question
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Depressing reality check here for amateur sports in the U.K. This morning

    http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/38884801
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    "50% feel the use of performance enhancing drugs is widespread"
    Glad we've got some hard facts to go on then
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    :lol:
    bompington wrote:
    "50% feel the use of performance enhancing drugs is widespread"
    Glad we've got some hard facts to go on then

    :lol: I want to know where the fat busting wonder drug is available. :)
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    I want to know who these 60% of cyclists are as it's certainly not something I've come across!
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Love the frube being interviewed - he took PEDs out of 'curiosity'. Aye - curiosity at how much fcuking faster they'd make him. Why do people trot out this sh*t every time they get popped? It's the same from the top right the way to the bottom. Mugs.

    As for the 'statistics' - meh. No hard and fast numbers (largely because the chances of someone getting asked to psis in a jar at anything below Elite/1st cat are about as high as me scoring with Gemma Arterton) and a load of speculation
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
    Specialising in Git Daaahns and Cafs. Norvern Munkey/Transplanted Laaandoner.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Cruff wrote:
    Love the frube being interviewed - he took PEDs out of 'curiosity'. Aye - curiosity at how much fcuking faster they'd make him. Why do people trot out this sh*t every time they get popped? It's the same from the top right the way to the bottom. Mugs.

    As for the 'statistics' - meh. No hard and fast numbers (largely because the chances of someone getting asked to psis in a jar at anything below Elite/1st cat are about as high as me scoring with Gemma Arterton) and a load of speculation



    12/10 for this post
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Vino'sGhost wrote:
    Depressing reality check here for amateur sports in the U.K. This morning

    http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/38884801

    What a load of guff. The interview with Stevens says it all really; "I think... I think... I think..." he doesn't KNOW anything. And of course he's going to think everyone is at it to normalize his own failings.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    edited March 2017
    ah, Stevens. The chopper who took EPO to get from cat 4 to cat 3, and put himself onto his own team. And now touts himself as the speaker of truth. Other trolls love him (as his interview being promoted here illustrates)

    Hi-lare.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    delete
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Isn't this just UKAD pitching for more money?

    People in society take drugs - recreationally, to make them feel better, for vanity reasons, etc. Amateur sport doping is no different to that. And I view it with the same level of apathy. It's keeping it away from juniors that is important. And rugby, because people don't just lose, they get hurt.

    Someone like Dan Stevens doped because Dan Stevens is a delusional bellend. And no amount of testing will change that
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • spam02
    spam02 Posts: 178
    To be fair to UKAD, in terms of numbers, amateur sports is where the real issue is and with their limited funding they are fighting a losing battle. It doesn't help that a tw@t like Dan Stevens always pops up to slag them off every time an amateur doping article is published (and I think this is a very amateur article about amateur doping). Nearly 50% of current UKAD bans being served by Rugby players, and top in the survey catagories yet none of the Case Studies are Rugby Players, go figure.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    depressing reading, although it reminds be of the CIRC report, where some says x% of people are doing this and it's taken as fact.

    Im off to China in a week so least I know what products to purchase now :D

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