Doping in sport

[cider_and_toast]

Disgree by all means but please avoid making it personal. Thanks.

 

[KekeTheKing]

The Rio Olympics are definitely in danger of becoming a disaster (as many could have forecast) and now the Lab that was expected to handle the athlete samples has been shut down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/sports/olympics/rio-drug-testing-lab-is-suspended-by-wada.html

I guess it couldn't be worse than Sochi though;

The longtime director of Russia’s lab, Grigory Rodchenkov, told The New York Times that after he was cleared to run the Sochi lab, he had tampered with roughly 100 of the 1,917 urine samples the facility tested. He said he had substituted out the steroid-laced urine of dozens of Russian athletes, at least 15 of whom won medals at Sochi — where Russia placed first in the overall medal count.

 

[Titch]

It's a shit old world really, when you stop and think about it.

 

[FB]

Even more embarrassment for Russia

Russian rowers banned from Rio Olympics after failed doping probe

 

[Bill Boddy]

But they are not capable of embarrassment FB which is the worst thing. It's just more for the Putin grist mill concerning US cheating.

 

[FB]

Whether embarrassed or not they will all need to see if they can get any money back on their tickets to Rio.

Russia state-sponsored doping across majority of Olympic sports, claims report

 

[FB]

Amazing how many top class athletes are asthmatic isn't it? I remember the asthmatics at school either being the ones wheezing round at the back in the 1500 meters or having a note from their mum asking to be excused. If only they had all known that if they had persevered with their inhalers they would all have gold medals today.

 

[gethinceri]

Guy in my cycle club has a wheeze on his inhaler before tough climbs.
I'd give it a go, but I'd probably lose my coaching licence.

 

[cider_and_toast]

I worked briefly in the RN careers office in Bristol while waiting to join my next unit. We were told to ask perspective recruits about asthma and anyone who had been diagnosed with it wasn't allowed to join.

The other one that I find odd are the hard core Hayfever injections. I use supermarket own brand antihistamines and they do the job A treat. No need for an exemption there.

It's similar to a super athletic Maria Sharipova receiving monthly treatment for ten years using a drug normally used to treat heart conditions.

Some things are legal and some things aren't. Its funny where they draw the line isn't it?

 

[Bill Boddy]

Sport can bring on asthma.

http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/breathe/8/4/286.full.pdf

 

[FB]

Then don't do it. If you're fit and well you don't need to exercise, if you're not fit and well you shouldn't exercise.

Anyway, sounds like a good excuse to get some steroids into them "legitimately".

 

[Bill Boddy]

It is difficult not to exercise if you are a professional athlete.

 

[TR]

Apparently it is quite easy to see who is a professional athlete and who isn't simply from looking at blood test. Where for a normal person most substances on the banned list are well below the "allowed" thresholds with may be one close to the threshold due to natural variation, for an athlete essentially all banned substances will appear just below the threshold values. (At least this is what chemical analysts working in anti-doping labs tell me.)

 

[Greenlantern101]

The FIA carry out doping tests, both in and out of competition.

Doping Tests

http://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/basicpage/file/20150206/2014_Overview doping tests by FIA_webpage.pdf

Interesting stuff from JB. He's not been tested for 4 years.

World Anti-Doping Agency set for F1 talks after Jenson Button's shock admission

 

[cider_and_toast]

Given the trajectory of his career over the last four years, the only thing he could be guilty of taking is performance decreasing drugs.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Russia in a nut shell.

McLaren report: More than 1,000 Russian athletes implicated in state-sponsored doping

 

[vintly]

I'm sometimes prone to defending Russia's motives (not methods) in world affairs, given the West's immense fear of the Soviet/Russian empire over the last century, but in this case they are 100% bang to rights. I wonder what repercussions there will be, once the all the details of global trade and energy supply have been taken into account. I hope it's more than a slap on the wrist.

 

[olegg]

Russia in a nut shell.
McLaren report: More than 1,000 Russian athletes implicated in state-sponsored doping

Professor Richard is the shame for famous surname Mclaren.
His report is nonsense in which is no one proof.
And those who believe that even talk about the Russian propaganda.

 

[olegg]

And how funny looks that WADA gives to use hard drugs for elected representatives sports of the "civilized" nations.
But at the same time coming up with stories about meldonium that thirty years is the usual remedy for the heart.

 

[olegg]

However ...
this is the usual lies and hypocrisy inherent in our Western partners.
It has been more than one hundred years.