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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    not just america. Look at how UK media outlets hang their whole coverage of certain sports on 1 or 2 individuals.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601
    ddraver wrote:
    Dan Biggar returns from a game ending injury so quickly, even his team mates are calling him Lazarus...

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/f ... ix-nations

    You need to remember that the rugby union bs machine is on a different level to any other organisation on the planet. The public school run media also lap it up, particularly at this time of the year when they need to take the attention away from just how dull their premier competition is. "isn't that the guy who was paralysed from the neck down last week?" is a far better thought for the viewer to have than "why do the full backs keep kicking the ball to each other?"
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    YorkshireRaw wrote:
    Candidate? I'd suggest it got the job some time ago and has rapidly progressed up the career ladder.

    Yes, but in the absence of a smoking gun I'll stick to a more vaguely worded finger pointing.
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  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    Coe really is an idiot! Nestle were associated with a corrupt organisation in the past, therefore it is hypocritical of them to withdraw sponsorship of one today!
    IAAF president Lord Coe accused Nestle of hypocrisy after it ended its sponsorship of the world governing body's Kids' Athletics programme. The Swiss food and drink company said it feared the doping scandal engulfing the IAAF could damage its reputation. But Coe pointed to Nestle's backing of the Tour de France during a time when cycling had notable doping problems.

    "We were left confused and angry. I didn't understand the rationale behind it," the Briton told BBC Sport. "Clearly it wasn't a decision made about reputation because, since 2001, they've been the global partner to the Tour de France and renewed at a moment when cycling was in its worst position around doping.

    "We felt this was hypocritical."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/35553400
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    What Coe wilfully and repeatedly ignores is that his predecessor - the guy he slobbered over and proclaimed as his spiritual president - led and presided over a group of officials at the very top of athletics, meant to protect clean athletes but who instead covered up positive tests by some athletes and blackmailed others, to line their fat pockets,

    It was betrayal of the very lowest order.

    Give me supercharged cyclists any day of the week.
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Coe is in full head in sand mode. Rather than saying, 'it's terrible that athletes and officials have brought my sport down to this level that our partners are deciding to leave. I'll do everything I can to rid my sport of this cancer to ensure that we can secure new partners to take the sport forward.' Instead, he's effectively saying, 'yeah we are in a state but so what, so was cycling!' When the head of the sport will not face upto the facts staring him in the face, what chance has the sport got of getting out of its current mess. Coe is a disaster for athletics he's blaming anyone but his own sport, they need to get rid before they can move forward.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Slim Boy Fat wrote:
    Coe is in full head in sand mode. Rather than saying, 'it's terrible that athletes and officials have brought my sport down to this level that our partners are deciding to leave. I'll do everything I can to rid my sport of this cancer to ensure that we can secure new partners to take the sport forward.' Instead, he's effectively saying, 'yeah we are in a state but so what, so was cycling!' When the head of the sport will not face upto the facts staring him in the face, what chance has the sport got of getting out of its current mess. Coe is a disaster for athletics and they need to get rid before they can move forward.

    It's not head in sand, it's fingers in ears mode.

    Coupled with a huge dose of arrogance and a massive globule of slime.

    I wouldn't trust him as far as I could spit him.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    #BestManFortheJob

    He can't face up to it because you can't bite your own teeth - he's IT.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I guess Mr Toad is in for even more shortly. But I suspect he doesn't know who Salazar is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZt0H1S ... e=youtu.be
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Well I hope for her sake Kara Goucher's faith in Tygart and the outcome of the USADA investigation, is not misplaced

    Nothing is certain. I wouldn't count any chickens just yet

    I don't doubt her. I just wouldn't pre-judge the outcome.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601
    Joelsim wrote:
    I guess Mr Toad is in for even more shortly. But I suspect he doesn't know who Salazar is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZt0H1S ... e=youtu.be

    What an annoying, smug woman.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    ^you might want to cut her some slack

    For whistleblowing against Salazar, she's been threatened, intimidated, attempts made to besmirch her reputation, by Salazar and Nike. Furthermore, that interview is immediately after the Olympic Trials where she's missed out on the Olympic team spot for the marathon by one spot. So put all that together & it's not really a surprise that she comes across as brittle there.

    There's a fook load going on.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    It's good to hear 2 RUSADA Execs have died mysteriously in the last 10 days.

    This is at the same time Russia have found themselves (Government) as having not been involved at all in state-sponsored doping.

    Surely Coe can let them in again now given everything appears above board and sorted.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Joelsim wrote:
    It's good to hear 2 RUSADA Execs have died mysteriously in the last 10 days.

    This is at the same time Russia have found themselves (Government) as having not been involved at all in state-sponsored doping.

    Surely Coe can let them in again now given everything appears above board and sorted.

    Did they both drink tea in London?
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Pinno wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    It's good to hear 2 RUSADA Execs have died mysteriously in the last 10 days.

    This is at the same time Russia have found themselves (Government) as having not been involved at all in state-sponsored doping.

    Surely Coe can let them in again now given everything appears above board and sorted.

    Did they both drink tea in London?

    Something like that.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    gsk82 wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Dan Biggar returns from a game ending injury so quickly, even his team mates are calling him Lazarus...

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/f ... ix-nations

    You need to remember that the rugby union bs machine is on a different level to any other organisation on the planet. The public school run media also lap it up, particularly at this time of the year when they need to take the attention away from just how dull their premier competition is. "isn't that the guy who was paralysed from the neck down last week?" is a far better thought for the viewer to have than "why do the full backs keep kicking the ball to each other?"

    Biggar's Welsh. It's a working class, comprehensive school sport there and the press is a mile from your public school generalisation.

    He's recovered from a ligament strain. Very hard to predict how long that will be when it first occurs. I did my foot once and coudn't put any weight on it at all (worse than Biggar) - three days later I was walking normally.
    @stagehopper
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    Joelsim wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Joelsim wrote:
    It's good to hear 2 RUSADA Execs have died mysteriously in the last 10 days.

    This is at the same time Russia have found themselves (Government) as having not been involved at all in state-sponsored doping.

    Surely Coe can let them in again now given everything appears above board and sorted.

    Did they both drink tea in London?

    Something like that.

    One or two lumps of Polonium-210 with your tea sir?
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Well I hope for her sake Kara Goucher's faith in Tygart and the outcome of the USADA investigation, is not misplaced

    Nothing is certain. I wouldn't count any chickens just yet

    I don't doubt her. I just wouldn't pre-judge the outcome.

    Some sources claiming it's all going down in March - handily the month in which the World Indoor Champs take place in Portland, Oregon....

    Up to 20 witnesses may have spoken to Tygart. The issue is whether they've got actual 1st person and corroborating accounts of rule-breaking, as they had with the US Postal investigation.

    Agree with RR2, not sure this one is as cut and dried.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601
    stagehopper wrote:
    gsk82 wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Dan Biggar returns from a game ending injury so quickly, even his team mates are calling him Lazarus...

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/f ... ix-nations

    You need to remember that the rugby union bs machine is on a different level to any other organisation on the planet. The public school run media also lap it up, particularly at this time of the year when they need to take the attention away from just how dull their premier competition is. "isn't that the guy who was paralysed from the neck down last week?" is a far better thought for the viewer to have than "why do the full backs keep kicking the ball to each other?"

    Biggar's Welsh. It's a working class, comprehensive school sport there and the press is a mile from your public school generalisation.

    He's recovered from a ligament strain. Very hard to predict how long that will be when it first occurs. I did my foot once and coudn't put any weight on it at all (worse than Biggar) - three days later I was walking normally.

    i don't read the welsh press, i read the english press
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Meldonium again. And she's called Olga so I bet you can guess where*

    http://www.biathlonworld.com/en/press_r ... schau=true


    *Ukraine. Bwahaha
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    ^interesting that this was only added to the list in January, and she was caught on the 10th.
    I wonder how long it is detectable.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    ^interesting that this was only added to the list in January, and she was caught on the 10th.
    I wonder how long it is detectable.

    Not sure actually, but it does appear to have been extensively used in the Eastern Block recently (yes I know...).
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,439
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Joelsim wrote:
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    ^interesting that this was only added to the list in January, and she was caught on the 10th.
    I wonder how long it is detectable.

    Not sure actually, but it does appear to have been extensively used in the Eastern Block recently (yes I know...).

    It's only manufactured/sold there...
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Ethiopian-born Swedish athlete busted. Rumours of more Ethiopian-born athletes testing positive "swirling"...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    By swirling d'ya mean on twitz?
    _
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,351
    TOP DEFINITION:

    twitz
    when your pee shoots in two different directions after sex

    :shock:
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Dish is right

    Massive doping story re Ethiopian athletes about to break
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Sell your nike shares!
    _
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3468428/Ethiopia-set-doping-bans-drug-testers-turn-focus-distance-dominating-nation.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

    https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.expressen.se/sport/abeba-aregawi-misstankt-for-doping/&usg=ALkJrhj9Y3RQWA6q_XoGQVXAW_H8qB0VsA

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