Muggs
Premiership Player
CAS's low low level of satisfaction is just a joke, absolute joke.
Low level of satisfication when she tested positive for a substance? All that article talks about is a court cleared her of intent.
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CAS's low low level of satisfaction is just a joke, absolute joke.
Quoting Brad Hardie and Bruce
That's some struggle st
No mention of anything to do with being found not guilty of drug use by her sporting body.Low level of satisfication when she tested positive for a substance? All that article talks about is a court cleared her of intent.
Brad Hardie, Karl Langdon, Basil Zempilas, Steve Mills - they are all strugglers, struggle more than you i guess !.
No mention of anything to do with being found not guilty of drug use by her sporting body.
Amazing what people see when they want.
Suspect he might be. Another 2 year ban means it's time to get the forklift licence.
Can Australia bring in some backdated laws enabling them to charge dopers in sport.Looking further she did not even contest the Doping charges, it never even made it way to CAS.
She said did not do it, asked for B samples to be tested they came back positive and she accepted the ban.
Did ASADA come over the top?Someone in the AFL got egg on their face tonight.
It's very very difficult to send scented emails. Allah knows I've tried.Also, it's 2016, who uses letters?
Old Gil must have had a bit of a ooga booga moment.Did ASADA come over the top?
What, of the egg?Did ASADA come over the top?
Well there's certainly plenty of eggs on faces down at AFL house, so sure, why not?What, of the egg?
ASADA fearlessly banning Cale Hooker from Ken Judges wake at East Freo FC.
Well done ASADA
That Greek finding was in a criminal court, was she charged by the Greek government in relation to doping once she was convicted by the sporting body? Not sure what the system is in Greece.
Don't think that relates to the finding of her being guilty of drug use by the sporting body.
What a mess. The AFL can't even read its own rules…...
Where does that say she was innocent of doping? That deals with a criminal charge and being found not guilty due to lack of intent needed for the criminal violation under Greek law. So she did not go to jail.
Nothing to do with her two year banned being overturned, which is was not as she tested positive in a strict liablilty code.
There is no incentive for dopers not to dope because sportsmen like the EFC 34 create an arms race.My point is the lengths that athletes have to go to, at great expense and hardship, to prove innocence in a strict liability, zero tolerance scheme. The WADA code is designed to catch drug cheats but last year 4/8 runners in the 100m mens final at the world championships had served bans (some had had sentences reduced by CAS) and were back competing at an elite level. So, clearly deterred...
Richard Ings wrote last week about the cyclist Bobby Dea who had his ban reduced to 6 months by CAS enabling him to compete in Rio.
"CAS reducing ban of US cyclist Bobby Lea from 16m to 6m offers a chance at RIO. Dream team of @athleteslawyer @MSL_Mike Advocacy matters" (25 Feb) as if that was a good thing - athlete pleads guilty, says sorry, gets reduction, competes in said sport. There's little contrition in Lea's own account (http://www.bobbylea.us/blog/) just sheer relief that he still gets to compete in his chosen sport.
The way the scheme works there's no incentive for dopers not to dope - they just need to time their doping and plan accordingly. On the other hand, innocent athletes (and I would include Saad and the Collingwood boys in this too), might test positive - or be penalised on the comfortable satisfaction test, as in our case - and they've got very little room for arguing innocence in the WADA/CAS system. They're collateral damage in the greater aim of getting rid of drugs in sport. Which in my view is not working because it isn't fair.
In all sports but particularly high doping sports such as athletics and cycling, i think you've got to get athletes to respect the system if you want to have them conform and for that to work the scheme has to be fair and transparent. Athletes have to feel they're getting a fair go. The overwhelming impression I get is that the current system isn't working, vis Russia, Ethiopia, because it isn't fair. Zero tolerance programs rarely, if ever, work anywhere.
My point is the lengths that athletes have to go to, at great expense and hardship, to prove innocence in a strict liability, zero tolerance scheme. The WADA code is designed to catch drug cheats but last year 4/8 runners in the 100m mens final at the world championships had served bans (some had had sentences reduced by CAS) and were back competing at an elite level. So, clearly deterred...
Richard Ings wrote last week about the cyclist Bobby Dea who had his ban reduced to 6 months by CAS enabling him to compete in Rio.
"CAS reducing ban of US cyclist Bobby Lea from 16m to 6m offers a chance at RIO. Dream team of @athleteslawyer @MSL_Mike Advocacy matters" (25 Feb) as if that was a good thing - athlete pleads guilty, says sorry, gets reduction, competes in said sport. There's little contrition in Lea's own account (http://www.bobbylea.us/blog/) just sheer relief that he still gets to compete in his chosen sport.
The way the scheme works there's no incentive for dopers not to dope - they just need to time their doping and plan accordingly. On the other hand, innocent athletes (and I would include Saad and the Collingwood boys in this too), might test positive - or be penalised on the comfortable satisfaction test, as in our case - and they've got very little room for arguing innocence in the WADA/CAS system. They're collateral damage in the greater aim of getting rid of drugs in sport. Which in my view is not working because it isn't fair.
In all sports but particularly high doping sports such as athletics and cycling, i think you've got to get athletes to respect the system if you want to have them conform and for that to work the scheme has to be fair and transparent. Athletes have to feel they're getting a fair go. The overwhelming impression I get is that the current system isn't working, vis Russia, Ethiopia, because it isn't fair. Zero tolerance programs rarely, if ever, work anywhere.
Well of course we do. How many of us thought about doping at all until we were engulfed in it? And now that we know more about it, it's all a bit more complex than before. Read just the other day about the Greek athlete who, years after she had retired from the sport, finally had her 2 year ban that ended her career overturned. Innocent apparently, who would have thought? Too late to salvage her career but important to her nonetheless. No-one else cared of course.