Drugs in other sports and the media.
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Yes he was.
Will be interesting to see if Trek stand by him; history would suggest it's unlikely....(Toon Aerts was dropped by a Trek sponsored team when he was banned) and obviously there is the Trek history with a certain Texan.
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Re contamination causing positive tests, Off-topic maybe, this is one area that offers a huge advantage to top level teams in high profile (<=> high revenue) sport. They have the resources to get every batch of everything that their athletes take tested, to ensure there's nothing lurking there. There's big bucks to be made from being a WADA-accredited lab testing Lucazade Sport etc. for Premiership footy teams.
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Takes away their defence if they ever get popped though (not that a top Premiership ever would be!).
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Well what "favours" footy teams get is another debate, but their resources do allow them to significantly reduce the risks of positive tests via contamination. Once a batch has been tested and registers "clear", the clubs can then ensure that they only give supplements etc. with the right batch numbers. I assume the same applies with medications. I know for sure about Lucozade Sport as I once met a guy on hols who ran a WADA-accredited lab and had given up testing urine / blood samples for WADA etc. after competitions in favour of testing Lucozade Sport for Chelsea, as Chelsea paid handsomely for the service. He certainly wasn't short of a bob or two. The lab would test batches and then send the clear batch numbers to Chelsea so they knew what to buy.
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Former Welsh rugby international Rhys Webb gets a 4 year ban for testing positive for HGH in France. I’m surprised how few rugby players are testing positive for it to be honest.
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Are they being tested?
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Who knows. There were some busts in Welsh rugby about 15 years ago with the whole of one low level valley club getting done. There were also a lot of last minute ‘injuries’ in matches I watched when the testers were rumoured to have turned up but that is probably more down to local gym culture rather than the sport itself. I always feel like it’s prevalent at high level but you don’t here of many being caught.
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On average, I believe in the English premiership, players are tested about once a season.
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Not seriously, no.
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With the top secret defence it's hard to judge one way or another whether the decision is sound. My random guess is she'd been doing something she shouldn't have the previous night and bought herself time for it to clear. That said, she's never come across as the sharpest tool in the box when being interviewed.
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One wonders what she'd been doing to render herself sufficient cognitively impaired to forget that refusing a drug test could get her banned for a long time. Obviously she didn't. This is just a cover story. Least unlikely explanation is that she was still "glowing" from a banned substance and needed time, fluids etc. to address this.
It's not taken long to get from "strict liability" to "any old b*llocks of an explanation will do".
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It's the what she was doing to render herself sufficiently cognitively impaired that I was thinking she may have been buying time to clear her system. Not sure how long these things take to get rid of and whether athletes are able to calculate that for themselves.
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depends on the sport and/or the country as we know. The British dont cheat unlike those foreigners
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Given WADA’s exoneration of a bus load of Chinese athletes on the ol’ contamination excuse, who really has any faith in this system anyway?
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Just ask Lizzy Banks.
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Maybe somehow absorbing fluids from someone else who might have been glowing. Just a thought.🤔
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Don't think so. She was described as refusing a test, which means the tester made contact. The scenario you describe could cover a missed "Whereabouts" test i.e. in the designated hour each day where the athlete commits to be available for testing in a location of their choice.
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Nick Harris (@sportingintel on X) is releasing an expose on Team Sky & British Cycling tomorrow.
Unless he's got Freeman to talk (and I think I believe the version Ive heard from him- albeit second hand) he's probably just sensationalising stuff.
Think Dan Roan, but without an actual job
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He's just an internet troll at this point. If he had anything he'd take it to the Daily Mail and get his career back - but I'm guessing it's on his Substack or similar.
Edit: Looking at it via my secondary twitter account (he blocked my main one) it seems like a rehash of his 'Servais Knaven rode for TVM in 1998' nonsense. And as predicted, a Substack. Pathetic.
Dan Roan, on other hand, wouldn't say anything against a sport that gives him tickets to big events (rather than a TV screen in a school gym). He's basically a blagger..
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Pathetic from what Ive read so far is being extremely kind. Just a re-hash of what is in the public domain by a sensationalist blogger.
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Not really drugs, but I see the first Olympic scandal - beating the shit out of a horse - has dropped
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Must be rife in equestrian sports, surely.
UK sport must be pissed off, that was one of the gold medal bankers. Lotta money riding on those.
Slightly suspect timing for a 4 year old video but I guess they wanted maximum impact.
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Last bit was my thought but being a cynic I suspect it follows attempts to make money out of the incident.
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Well the equestrian bit is being removed from modern pentathlon at the next Olympics, after a German coach punched her horse last time around. I suspect there's a lot of it about.
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Yeah. I see a lot of hypocrisy around domesticated animals, especially those we use for a purpose, but then I am no animal lover so I am not best placed to judge, and I would remove all animal based events from the Olympics!
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You may get your wish. The IOC are apparently looking very closely at it as the logistics and facilities involved are expensive, the thing with the German coach played into it too (the horses used in pentathlon aren't supplied by the athletes or team and they get drawn them from a local pool, I think the German competitor was struggling with the one they were provided which led to the coach's action). I think your views on animal training in general may be a bit outdated though, it's generally reward based.
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