Drugs in other sports and the media.

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    underlayunderlay wrote:
    Evans gets a 12-month reduction in his ban because the authorities believe he was just being a bit thick when it came to his choice of hiding place for his illegal stimulants, and he certainly wasn't taking them, oh no, game of skill, no doping here:

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/oct/03/dan-evans-banned-for-year-positive-cocaine-test


    "ITF said in a statement ... that Evans bore “no significant fault or negligence”. "

    Erm... Dan Evans' cocaine contaminates Dan Evans' medicine in Dan Evans' washbag. Can't see any significant fault or negligence by Dan Evans there,
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-lea ... t-11311484

    Zak Hardaker is out of England’s World Cup squad after testing positive for a banned substance, the RFL has confirmed.

    No idea what the drug is yet....
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Gweeds wrote:
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/zak-hardaker-failed-drugs-test-11311484

    Zak Hardaker is out of England’s World Cup squad after testing positive for a banned substance, the RFL has confirmed.

    No idea what the drug is yet....
    Cocaine
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    RichN95 wrote:
    Gweeds wrote:
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/zak-hardaker-failed-drugs-test-11311484

    Zak Hardaker is out of England’s World Cup squad after testing positive for a banned substance, the RFL has confirmed.

    No idea what the drug is yet....
    Cocaine
    Recreational,
    If he'd tested for steroids he would probably be OK.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    darkhairedlord wrote:
    Recreational,
    If he'd tested for steroids he would probably be OK.
    I'm starting to think that coke is all UKAD test for.
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    It's ok though. No rugby players are on steroids. NONE.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Gweeds wrote:
    It's ok though. No rugby players are on steroids. NONE.
    Even the RL players are totally clean. The only sport cleaner is wrestling and possibly world's strongest man on the telly.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    Even the dogs are at it

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  • confused@BR
    confused@BR Posts: 295
    Nah! Barking up the wrong tree there.

    Sorry, could not resist. BTW it is interesting to hear the tone of sports that don't know they have a drug problem (as above) contrasted to sports who know they have a drug problem but are doing their darndest to not acknowledge it. Anyone for tennis?
    'fool'
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    confused@BR wrote:
    Nah! Barking up the wrong tree there.

    Well I hope it gives people paws for thought
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    Mo on the bbc again today but recalling a comment from July. Seems his coach may have been naughty too not just everyone he coached bar Mo.

    In July he defended his record by saying he had "never failed a blood test" after hackers Fancy Bears revealed some of his samples had initially needed further testing, before later being declared normal.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... returns-uk

    • Farah denies move linked to US anti-doping investigation into Salazar
    • ‘I’m leaving simply because we want the kids to grow up in the UK’
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Gweeds wrote:
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/oct/31/mo-farah-splits-coach-alberto-salazar-returns-uk

    • Farah denies move linked to US anti-doping investigation into Salazar
    • ‘I’m leaving simply because we want the kids to grow up in the UK’

    I imagine that is probably true tbh, and I doubt the move has anything to do with doping.
    _
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    I would tend to agree - it can't be a shock that you'd want to leave the US in the current Trump era.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    Gweeds wrote:
    I would tend to agree - it can't be a shock that you'd want to leave the US in the current Trump era.
    yep, just wants to bring the kids up in the UK, which is his home, makes sense.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Gweeds wrote:
    I would tend to agree - it can't be a shock that you'd want to leave the US in the current Trump era.

    Having just spent a week there I can understand that.

    Surprised that no conspiracy theorist has mentioned that as he now targets long distance he's going to be coached by Paula Radcliffe's former coach (and current partner)... :D
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    yeah cant see anything bad about moving away from Salazar. Hoping Mo is a clean athlete and genuine phenome
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Fun fact: The only World Record Mo Farah has ever held is for the 100m sack race. (It was broken earlier this year)
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  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/41903500

    About to get ugly I reckon. Pretty much every athlete from Kenya will be under scrutiny now, with the absence of any meaningful testing program
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42030913
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,574
    Where's Dan Roan? What was the drug?
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42030913

    What do they inject? Cortisone?
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Amusing that not one mention of the mechanism for allowing those injections - I think its called something no-one's heard of called a teayouee or similar? No point in mentioning that detail though, footballers get injured and need drugs, whereas cyclists or runners if they are injured and need some medical help are really doping for performance enhancing reasons as we all know.
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  • redvision
    redvision Posts: 2,958
    Timoid. wrote:
    TwoToeBenny wrote:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42030913

    What do they inject? Cortisone?

    Anti inflammatories, usually cortisone.
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    RichN95 wrote:
    Fun fact: The only World Record Mo Farah has ever held is for the 100m sack race. (It was broken earlier this year)

    He holds the World Indoor 2 mile best - although strictly not a WR as not recognised as a WR distance by IAAF. But assume 100m sack race isn't either.
  • twotoebenny
    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
    The interesting point of the article for me, Mourinho states he doesn't have any problems with these injections...with apparently no interrogation/repercussion

    "I am not an angel and I had players injected to play official matches, crucial matches"

    But if you are Brailsford, Sutton or Sky...

    Funny old game Saint...
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    These injections are widely accepted in football, rugby, nfl etc.

    They have been open about these injections for years, there is no trying to hide simply because it is such an accepted practice and has been for at least 10 years.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Dinyull wrote:
    These injections are widely accepted in football, rugby, nfl etc.

    They have been open about these injections for years, there is no trying to hide simply because it is such an accepted practice and has been for at least 10 years.

    but at one point amphetamines and others were accepted in cycling. Maybe not fully legal but everyone turned a blind eye to it
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Dinyull wrote:
    These injections are widely accepted in football, rugby, nfl etc.

    They have been open about these injections for years, there is no trying to hide simply because it is such an accepted practice and has been for at least 10 years.

    but at one point amphetamines and others were accepted in cycling. Maybe not fully legal but everyone turned a blind eye to it
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    If it means they can play on, punters don't care.
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