Doping in other sports

[SWSteve]

Andy Murray is a bad man for saying he has concerns about potential doping. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...bc_sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

 

[Inertia]

Andy Murray is a bad man for saying he has concerns about potential doping. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...bc_sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

Well Becker would know

Becker was fined for expressing his astonishment that his opponent had recovered so quickly, in remarks that were widely interpreted as implying Muster had taken illegal drugs.

 

[Hont]

Well Becker would know

"I believe 100% Andy is clean.

"Roger [Federer] is clean, Rafa [Nadal] is clean, all these guys are clean. Novak gets tested a lot."

Funny that he doesn't say Novak is clean.

 

[400bhp]

One of the top players is up to no good and Andy knows who it is.

 

[SWSteve]

One of the top players is up to no good and Andy knows who it is.

If Murray is clean, and I hope he is for how much he says the current standards aren't good enough, then I am impressed he has a grandslam to his name. It would probably explain why the summer of 2012 he flew, as other wouldn't be able to have doped in the run up to the olympics

 

[Crackle]

One of the top players is up to no good and Andy knows who it is.

Well he doesn't agree with Djokovic, who funnily enough, used to flag during matches.

 

[smutchin]

Have to be careful what I say to avoid giving away identities, but I was speaking to someone recently who conducts high level research into sports nutrition and gives nutritional advice to world class professional sportspeople, and he came out with the classic line that cycling has different nutritional needs to football because the latter is a 'game of skil'.

Ok, so we weren't talking about doping per se but it was still disappointing to hear that from someone in his position.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

...football because the latter is a 'game of skil'.

Ok, so we weren't talking about doping per se but it was still disappointing to hear that from someone in his position.

Can't have been anyone that's watched Man Utd lately

 

[Dayvo]

Can't have been anyone that's watched Man Utd lately

Football fans have to take drugs in Scotland to get through 90 mins of drudgery. Speed is their prefered choice as it makes time fly 'when they're having fun.'

 

[User169]

Oh dear. As those youngsters would say, srsly?!

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/23/mamadou-sakho-drug-test-failure

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Oh dear. As those youngsters would say, srsly?!

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/23/mamadou-sakho-drug-test-failure

A perfect example of minimising the issue. In a game of "skill" - I reckon the article was written by @User

 

[albion]

"Football generally gets an easier ride than most sports over drugs because it is neither a power nor an endurance sport. It is not readily apparent what sort of preparation would enhance performance without being easy to detect"
"nor do they need to keep going for hours like cyclists"

Yet some teams go/went full blast near sprinting for 90 minutes whilst their opposition visibly tire.

 

[albion]

Obviously, the ones who win.

There has to be Armstrongs and Jones's in the sport, a sport where even the Championship players are made rich.

 

[SWSteve]

God knows what Sakho may have been taking, but it can't be rocket fuel. The man moves like a container ship with a dodgy rudder

 

[SWSteve]

It would appear Sakho was taking the same pills Kolo Toure was also taking.