Doping in other sports

[Pro Tour Punditry]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/may/06/wales-yegor-titov-euro-2004-russia

Game of skill innit?

 

[Hont]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/may/06/wales-yegor-titov-euro-2004-russia

Reads like a report on cycling from 20 years ago.

"nobody benefits from swishing back the curtain"

Curtain swishing. The football equivalent of Omerta.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

and one final point although a tad pertantic Titov didn't even make it to 60 minutes before being subbed.....

So they took the tit off?

<boom tish>

 

[slowmotion]

This one?
http://nos.nl/video/210777-lance-armstrong-gebruikte-doping.html

That's the one. Thank you very much.

 

[HF2300]

So they took the tit off?

<boom tish>

You don't deserve a like for that, just a groan. Groan.

 

[Scoosh]

You don't deserve a like for that, just a groan. Groan.

... and sent back to bed !

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

... and sent back to bed !

Too late, you already liked it

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

US Justice Department has allegedly opened an investigation into the Russian doping malarky

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/s...artment-russia-doping-investigation.html?_r=0

 

[rich p]

Did we already mention the IOC retesting London 2012 samples and 31 athletes facing a ban from the Beijing games?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Did we already mention the IOC retesting London 2012 samples and 31 athletes facing a ban from the Beijing games?

I don't think we did. I heard it on the radio today. On the BBC. So I reckoned it might have been a few months old.

 

[psmiffy]

31 without the results from 254 tests on samples taken at 2012 London

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Did we already mention the IOC retesting London 2012 samples and 31 athletes facing a ban from the Beijing games?

31 without the results from 254 tests on samples taken at 2012 London

Jamaican athlete included in failed A sample list
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/...ican-athlete-tested-positive-banned-substance

So that would be one of these lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Medalists

 

[Hont]

Disappointing that the media are focussed so much on Russia, when Jamaica smells almost as bad. But I really like the whole idea of retrospective testing. If you've cheated it must remove some of the glory, never being sure you've got away with it.

On another matter, watching some baseball last night, the commentators were talking about Marlon Byrd. Second offence and he only gets a one year ban. US sports still giving you three chances to find a doping programme that can't be detected.

 

[SWSteve]

Disappointing that the media are focussed so much on Russia, when Jamaica smells almost as bad. But I really like the whole idea of retrospective testing. If you've cheated it must remove some of the glory, never being sure you've got away with it.

On another matter, watching some baseball last night, the commentators were talking about Marlon Byrd. Second offence and he only gets a one year ban. US sports still giving you three chances to find a doping programme that can't be detected.

Re American sports, I guess the collective bargaining agreements that underpin all of the major leagues will have fought for the three strikes ruling

 

[Hont]

Re American sports, I guess the collective bargaining agreements that underpin all of the major leagues will have fought for the three strikes ruling

No doubt. It's an odd trajectory though. 6 month ban > year ban > life. There's very little disincentive to try it in the first (and second) instance.