Drugs in other sports and the media.

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  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    larkim said:

    Is it me being soft, or is this unfair:-
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60399339
    Tygart says the fact that two other *legal* drugs were in her system raises red flags?

    For someone who’s been in the anti doping system Tygart sure manages to come out with comments that can prejudice open cases.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    Tygart got a few rays of limelight back in the Armstrong days and decided he likes it. He wants to set himself and the Americans up as the world doping police.

    H wants to be a cross between D1ck Pound and Cressida D1ck and as a result is complete D1ck.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • joe2019
    joe2019 Posts: 1,338
    RichN95. said:

    Tygart got a few rays of limelight back in the Armstrong days and decided he likes it. He wants to set himself and the Americans up as the world doping police.

    H wants to be a cross between D1ck Pound and Cressida D1ck and as a result is complete D1ck.


    says, DickN95
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,851
    Ice skating fans must know what it is like to be a cycling fan now. Non-stop doping talk throughout the whole event.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    TheBigBean said:

    Ice skating fans must know what it is like to be a cycling fan now. Non-stop doping talk throughout the whole event.


    At least they get some actual doping, with actual banned drugs. They're not at motors, inhalers and ketones stage yet.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,181
    flite said:

    She will probably be instructed to look very vulnerable, put in a fabulous routine, but slip on her last jump and collapse in tears on the ice.
    Milking massive sympathy from a gullible public.

    Not too far off

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,851
    RichN95. said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Ice skating fans must know what it is like to be a cycling fan now. Non-stop doping talk throughout the whole event.


    At least they get some actual doping, with actual banned drugs. They're not at motors, inhalers and ketones stage yet.
    Two of the three drugs she is accused of taking are not banned. That's a decent start
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    I must say the F1-Masi-Abu Dhabi-Championship "scandal" has given me an idea of why so many people seemed to follow the cyclo-doping rather than cycling. The whole thing is far more interesting than the car procession...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,762
    ddraver said:

    I must say the F1-Masi-Abu Dhabi-Championship "scandal" has given me an idea of why so many people seemed to follow the cyclo-doping rather than cycling. The whole thing is far more interesting than the car procession...

    Reckon Masi was probably on Shrooms with some of the decisions he called. AFAIK psilocybin isn’t a banned substance in sport is it?


    Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.

  • thejimmymethod
    thejimmymethod Posts: 458
    He was consistent enough to be a commissaire
  • neonriver
    neonriver Posts: 228
    GB stripped of relay medal from Tokyo
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    neonriver said:

    GB stripped of relay medal from Tokyo

    Plus Blessing Okagbare slapped with a career ending, 10 year ban.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/60435917

    Just another day on the world of track and field.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,540
    Who'd have thunk it, figure skating has a doping issue with another bust:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60480117
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,181
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Who'd have thunk it, figure skating has a doping issue with another bust:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60480117

    For 11th place.

  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,472
    Ms. 11%
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
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    twotoebenny Posts: 1,542
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,195
    https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pinot-and-martin-speak-out-against-nadals-injections/#disqus_thread

    All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,094
    edited June 2022
    The golfers playing in the inaugural Saudi-funded LIV Golf event this week are doing it for "boatloads of cash", says Rory McIlroy.

    Major champions Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are reported to have been paid $200m and $150m respectively to play in the fledgling series.

    McIlroy is defending his Canadian Open title this week on the PGA Tour.

    "We all know why everyone's playing in London this week," he said of the LIV Golf event.

    "It's boatloads of cash and it's money up front. I get it and for some guys that's really enticing."

    DeChambeau's agent fuels LIV Golf speculation
    LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series
    The first tournament of the $250m eight-event LIV Golf Invitational Series is taking place at Centurion Club, near London, this week.

    It is the most lucrative tournament in the world, featuring a $25m prize fund, with $4m to the winner and $120,000 for last place in the 48-man field.

    LIV Golf is being fronted by former world number one Greg Norman, who says he has secured an extra £1.6bn of funding from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to turn the series in to a 14-event league by 2024.

    Northern Ireland's McIlroy reiterated that he has no desire to play in the series but has called on the game's leading administrators to "get in a room and figure it out".

    Norman, who says he wants his new venture to run alongside existing tours, has claimed that he has not spoken to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan despite repeated attempts to do so.

    Monahan said in March that the tour will "not be distracted by rumours of other golf leagues" and the PGA Tour has threatened to ban its members who play in the LIV Golf events, a move Norman called "anti-golfer, anti-fan and anti-competitive".

    "I feel like the professional game was on a nice trajectory, where everything was becoming more cohesive and now it's becoming more fractured again and I don't think that's a good thing," added McIlroy.

    "I do understand why they are playing. I just think they're thinking very short term. But everyone has to do what's right for themselves and who are we to say otherwise?"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/61740384

    Some golfers are succumbing to one of the most powerful drugs in the world.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    What, krokodil?
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,094
    I had to Google that up, and I wish I hadn't.

    Mad World.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    focuszing723 said:

    I had to Google that up, and I wish I hadn't.

    Mad World.


    I got a British prog rock group
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,472
    Fentanyl to drugs is what EPO was to cyclists. Think it's an opioid mixed with Fentanyl.

    Hmm, googling it I now see no mention of Fentanyl, but I'm sure I read about the combination some years ago.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • johnmorgandarlingtongP6WYj2Y
    johnmorgandarlingtongP6WYj2Y Posts: 1
    I’d say there was a case for banning drug testing.

    (Ducks)

    Those who can afford a better training regime already have an advantage over those who can’t. Other than the potential harm that drugs do to a body, and you could argue that the levels athletes are pushing for do damage anyway, is drug use for advantage any different?

    Would a ‘level playing field’ of ‘use what you want’ be better than trying to chase testing for ever-emerging drug technologies?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,255
    The case has already been made in the past.
    And dismissed.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,594
    A non cycling blogger has claimed he set up Antoine Vayer and a journalist he's close to with a fake hack, which resulted in the searches of the Bahrain Victorious team.

    https://incyclingveritas.wordpress.com/
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,252
    gsk82 said:

    A non cycling blogger has claimed he set up Antoine Vayer and a journalist he's close to with a fake hack, which resulted in the searches of the Bahrain Victorious team.

    https://incyclingveritas.wordpress.com/


    It will be interesting to see what he produces as evidence. The other journalist works for French TV and has been the main driver of the motor doping stories. His stories are as well sourced as Vayer's. The blogger suggests that they have the ear of the Marseille prosecutor.

    I see a lot of people on socials saying that police wouldn't search someone without good cause, which will be news to black people.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,255
    RichN95. said:


    I see a lot of people on socials saying that police wouldn't search someone without good cause, which will be news to black people.

    I agree with your rationale, but I can see the flaw in it.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,645
    So the mails are now published:
    https://incyclingveritas.wordpress.com/
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format

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