Football introduces revolutionary new doping test
That's right, football is leading the fight on doping in sport by introducing............................a bio passport :roll:
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Coach H. (Dont ask me for training advice - 'It's not about the bike')
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Reading that has given me the biggest laugh all week
FIFA - spin, spin
And frankly ignorant journos sucking it up
Spanish, or a player who plays in Spain. The brits are safe unless it covers coke.
and when the next big name cyclist gets busted football press heads will have another dig and say how football is leading the way for clean sport and cycling is doing nothing.
on sky news this morning it wasn't "biological passport" it was "genetic profile"
What makes you say that?
In terms of Spain, I think they have a lapse attitude in terms of doping, I mean look at the cyclists busted, and Nadal's arm.
In terms of Uk, it was a joke, I know first hand through some school friends who play football, and have been given "natural supplements" to bulk up. I also know a few who are partial to the old Bolivian marching powder.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editor ... t-it-has-a
Until recently I have been heavily involved in local football. It has just become such a nasty environment. Only when you fully leave the cocoon of the sport do you realise that people shouldn't act the way they do at the side of a football pitch. The players are not the sort of people you would want children to look up to.
I am not saying for a second that cycling is perfect for a second but I'd prefer my offspring to want to be like Vos or Wiggins rather than Rooney or Terry.
In what way would you say it has become nasty and would you say this is more common then say a few years ago?
Unlike Pantani, Vino etc etc etc etc etc. Couldn't agree with you any less.
There is of course some doping in football, but the gains to be made are not as big as the gains to be made from cycling. Football is not all about stamina. You can't give Grant Holt a shedload of Edgar and turn him into Lionel Messi. In football there is no such thing as high octane in the way that EPO and BBs transformed the sport.
I also think that there is an awful lot to lose in football for anyone caught. Take our man Wayne, he could lose £25m per season by being caught, and honestly how much better is it going to make his game?
I will say again though, there is some doping in every sport as we all know. If Wayne was busted there would be a national outcry and he would be public enemy number one.
If you're spending £25m a year on a player, you'd want to make bloody sure they're performing as well as possible.
Football's bigger business than cycling is by a pretty large order of magnitude, and the logistics of football, let alone the extra money they have sloshing about, would make you think that you'd be mad not to.
The logistics of a stage race doping program are a serious ball ache by comparison.
I know what I'd be doing if I was running a premier league football club....
Separately, take the England'98 world cup - same year as Festina.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... enn-hoddle
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Read this.
http://www.4dfoot.com/2013/02/09/doping ... -evidence/
Jumping for 7th to 1st - not normal. Who has done that in the last 15 years?
Involvement of ex Sky doctor who hired OKed Leinders's hiring. Did he bring him to Anfield?
Gerrard a known client of Actovegin advocate Dr Muller-Wohlfahrt, a suspected doping doctor.
Manager for six years, Rafa Benitez was previously manager of Valencia when they were linked to Operacion Puerto
Jordan Henderson becoming a good player
Why was Hodgson sacked? Did he want to disband the doping programme?
(not that I personally think that any of this is worthy of note - but then I'm not a fanatic. But it does show hypocrisy in those that claim to rail against it)
Good article. An enjoyable rad.
Interesting - I will send this to a cpl ppl I know who are strong Liverpool supporters.
Was going to make a cycling comparison but removed it.
Has he ever claimed they don't dope? It's not the cheating, it's the hypocrisy.
I did make the point about running and cycling being different to football. I only mentioned Armstrong and Zidane as a comparison. Have you heard of the Fuentes case? It was swept under the carpet because some of the blood bags belonged to some of the top teams in Spain and very strongly rumoured top male tennis player. The money involved in football will overcome any doping bust. If Rooney did get busted the Man Utd PR machine would go into operation and Rooney would end up as popular as ever. Did it hurt Zidane when he got caught? it did not, he is as popular as ever. Look at Rio missing the PED test and the comical cover up that went on there. Look at what happened to Rassmusen when he was not where he should have been. One has the support of a business that makes millions and has little damage done to his reputation the other one gets sacked and his pro racing days are all but over.
Well they openly gave Messi growth hormones because he was too small.
Not at all, but is being too small to play football an "actual medical problem?"
edit, just read up on him, could you not just have put that it was an actual medical condition. Not everyone has the wealth of knowledge you have in the field, so you could have just put that. Instead you opted to try and make me look like a douche.
Why didn't you just comment that? That's what I don't get, you could see I didn't have all the information, you did, why didn't you just comment that he had a medical condition.