Doping in other sports

[rich p]

Athletics Kenya announces that it's getting badass on dopers and agents:
http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Kenya-Cracks-Down-on-Athletes-Using-PEDs.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweet

Welcome news even if the rhetoric is a bit overblown!

Kiplagat told New Vision that performance-enhancing drug use is on the same scale as the AIDS epidemic

 

[HF2300]

OK, if you say so, Lord Coe, future international federation president and "mate" of a Mr Blatter. Quite an article about Lord C in the latest Private Eye.

This one? http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1383

 

[oldroadman]

Yep, that'll be it. An unfortunate episode in a glittering career, and all that. Apart from that, it will be instructive to see just how many people get found out in Kenya and Jamaica. If they let WADA do the work and publish the outcomes, then some credibility might be allowable. Always good to see a sport putting it's house in order

 

[psmiffy]

Something I find very strange - Over the years there seems to be many cases where sport supplements have been contaminated by anabolic steroids - how do they get into the manufacturing system - in this instance a blackcurrant drink - do the factories also package anabolic steroid versions of their products?

 

[oldroadman]

Something I find very strange - Over the years there seems to be many cases where sport supplements have been contaminated by anabolic steroids - how do they get into the manufacturing system - in this instance a blackcurrant drink - do the factories also package anabolic steroid versions of their products?

Knew I should have insisted on Ribena as a training drink. Stardom may have eluded me due to lack of the proper juice!

 

[rich p]

These two Russian women have had their bans backdated but still get to keep some of their results.

http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/yuliya-zaripova-tatyana-chernova-handed-doping-bans-16192/

The results annulments are 2 years from the infraction but it's naïve to believe that they weren't doping after that.
WADA will review it but I'm not sure if they can amend that sort of anomaly.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Looking at the UK Anti-Doping webpage there does seem to be some emerging themes in terms of the sports which have people who are banned
http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/search

 

[smutchin]

Wow, that's pretty damning.

 

[Ganymede]

All that rugby... pretty shocking. And lots of Welsh people. What's with that then?

 

[thom]

Looking at the UK Anti-Doping webpage there does seem to be some emerging themes in terms of the sports which have people who are banned
http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations/current-violations/search

The Tinklin family story is wierd : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28641672

 

[Dogtrousers]

The Tinklin family story is wierd : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28641672

Ha ha. Tinklin ... Urine sample....

Sorry

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Interesting article from NZ, where a survey has found that over 70 per cent of elite college rugby players regularly use sports supplements, placing them at risk of accidental doping now and making them more likely to intentionally dope in the future.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/new...rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[shouldbeinbed]

15 year ban
.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/31949668

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High of 77, now world no 267. I'd be asking my pharmacist for a refund.

 

[oldroadman]

Three word definition... What a plonker!

 

[rich p]

I could be putting 2 and 2 together and making 5...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/weightlifting/31999134