The Non-Footy Sports Discussion Thread

[Arthur Cloke]

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Tough call.

Back to back Olympic champion.

Exciting talent in the national team of a major international sport.

Best and fairest winner for the 10th best team in the AFL.

I Hear ya. Straight through the optic nerve.

 

[shinboner magic]

If you’re going over to wa for the “home games” over there - the Socceroos are playing Japan on June 5th.
That’s just 3 days before we play the weagles - could make it a big sporting weekend

 

[giantroo]

Chelsea star fails drugs test and could face four-year doping ban

Chelsea forward Mykhailo Mudryk could be facing a lengthy suspension from football as reports in his native Ukraine claim a failed doping test is behind his current absence

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[shinboner magic]

Chelsea star fails drugs test and could face four-year doping ban

Chelsea forward Mykhailo Mudryk could be facing a lengthy suspension from football as reports in his native Ukraine claim a failed doping test is behind his current absence

www.mirror.co.uk

They knew something shifty was on when he actually scored a goal

 

[Makeshift Park]

Geez Liverpool are an impressive unit this season. Just been on another level for the first half of the season. That performance against the Spurs was such a good watch.

 

[desie]

Geez Liverpool are an impressive unit this season. Just been on another level for the first half of the season. That performance against the Spurs was such a good watch.

To be fair any time someone puts six past Sp*rs it’s a good watch.

 

[Jimmy's Hot Dogs]

Marvel looking a bit ordinary tonight.

 

[Chip Scab1]

Marvel looking a bit ordinary tonight.

Terrible.

 

[Dan]

 

[Forever North]

Geez Liverpool are an impressive unit this season. Just been on another level for the first half of the season. That performance against the Spurs was such a good watch.

Spurs tried to play like Liverpool against Liverpool with a bare bones squad and got spanked as expected. Unfortunately I think Ange is being found out thinking his no plan B, C, D or E style of coaching doesn’t matter against the big boys. Nothing wrong with staying in the game for as long as possible against the best team in it and then trying to sneak it late on. Our players were laughing and taking the piss by the end. Still a long way to go but only Liverpool can screw it up from here just like only Liverpool can come back from 3-0 down against Barcelona..

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Really enjoying Man City and their billions of dollars down in 7th.

Right next to Newcastle.

And Man U in 13th is brilliant.

 

[shinboner magic]

Really enjoying Man City and their billions of dollars down in 7th.

Right next to Newcastle.

And Man U in 13th is brilliant.

Man city players have obviously been told those charges are going to stick

 

[DuckYeah]

Kyrgios out in straight sets to a nobody. What a waste of talent.

 

[DuckYeah]

Piss poor.

A doping shadow hangs over the start of tennis’ grand slam season at the Australian Open, with two of the sport’s biggest stars embroiled in a complicated saga that isn’t over yet.

The two players who spent most of the year at world No.1, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, both tested positive to a banned substance during the 2024 season - yet both will still be in action at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Swiatek missed a month of tennis, with the International Tennis Integrity Agency accepting she had unintentionally consumed the banned substance trimetazidine (a heart medication) through contaminated sleep assistant melatonin. Her case, while sparking some concern over its initial secrecy, is effectively no longer up for debate.

It’s Sinner, the reigning Australian Open champion, who we really need to talk about. (And who Nick Kyrgios really wants us to talk about.)

Sinner didn’t miss any tennis, though his semi-final result at the Indian Wells event last year was scrapped, and he was technically suspended twice - for a total of four days, both times in-between events.

This is because he tested positive twice; once during Indian Wells on March 10, and once just before the Miami Open on March 18, which he went on to win. He appealed both provisional bans quickly.

On both occasions trace amounts of a metabolite of clostebol, an anabolic steroid which mimics testosterone, were found in the Italian’s system.
In August, he was cleared of wrongdoing - and the tennis world was shocked to learn of his months-long saga (which had been kept quiet).

Sinner successfully argued he bore “no fault or negligence” for the trace amounts of the substance, which is found in many Italian over-the-counter drugs (and has been found in a number of Italian athletes’ systems in recent years).

 

[krakouers]

Kyrgios out in straight sets to a nobody. What a waste of talent.

He joins a long list of talent that never seemed to go anywhere after Hewitt…

 

[King Corey]

Piss poor.

A doping shadow hangs over the start of tennis’ grand slam season at the Australian Open, with two of the sport’s biggest stars embroiled in a complicated saga that isn’t over yet.

The two players who spent most of the year at world No.1, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, both tested positive to a banned substance during the 2024 season - yet both will still be in action at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Swiatek missed a month of tennis, with the International Tennis Integrity Agency accepting she had unintentionally consumed the banned substance trimetazidine (a heart medication) through contaminated sleep assistant melatonin. Her case, while sparking some concern over its initial secrecy, is effectively no longer up for debate.

It’s Sinner, the reigning Australian Open champion, who we really need to talk about. (And who Nick Kyrgios really wants us to talk about.)

Sinner didn’t miss any tennis, though his semi-final result at the Indian Wells event last year was scrapped, and he was technically suspended twice - for a total of four days, both times in-between events.

This is because he tested positive twice; once during Indian Wells on March 10, and once just before the Miami Open on March 18, which he went on to win. He appealed both provisional bans quickly.

On both occasions trace amounts of a metabolite of clostebol, an anabolic steroid which mimics testosterone, were found in the Italian’s system.
In August, he was cleared of wrongdoing - and the tennis world was shocked to learn of his months-long saga (which had been kept quiet).

Sinner successfully argued he bore “no fault or negligence” for the trace amounts of the substance, which is found in many Italian over-the-counter drugs (and has been found in a number of Italian athletes’ systems in recent years).

Sinner considering joining * as a cat B.

 

[DuckYeah]

De minaur has legs of ****ing steel.. what a machine!!

 

[hilly]

Nothing worse than the Aus Open:

Weather
Muppets like Andy Lee, Tony Jone, Djokovic, that annoying American female player
Tennis fans cheering wildly for multimillionaires

 

[Samsquanch]

Nothing worse than the Aus Open:

Weather
Muppets like Andy Lee, Tony Jone, Djokovic, that annoying American female player
Tennis fans cheering wildly for multimillionaires

Channel 9 weather women doing promotional work during their segments, but not much about tennis. They are promoting the sideshows as if it is some kind of highlight that would make people want to come to the venue to play or watch the shit that Tilley is dishing up that actually degrades the tournament to the level of sideshow alley.

 

[giantroo]

First round submission .

 

[giantroo]

 

[Gasometer]

lol. I posted about Chompers stuff up yesterday in the Commentary thread thinking it was fuel for when the Sunday Footy Show returns…well the Panel has plenty to work with this past week

 

[shinboner magic]

lol. I posted about Chompers stuff up yesterday in the Commentary thread thinking it was fuel for when the Sunday Footy Show returns…well the Panel has plenty to work with this past week

He’ll be lucky to keep his job.

The dumb campaigner thinks he’s funny

 

[giantroo]

TONY JONES: I OFFERED TO APOLOGISE TO NOVAK

Joe Barton
Under-fire Channel 9 presenter Tony Jones says he feels immense regret about the Novak Djokovic scandal, and says he offered to apologise to the Serbian star.

Jones broke his silence on the saga on Monday.

“I can only again tell Novak what I told him 48 hours ago,” Jones said on Channel 9.

“And that is I do apologise if he felt that I disrespected him. I should also add that in the correspondence with Novak’s team, I agreed to meet with them in person to discuss all this.

“They came back and said yes, we would be keen to meet in person. That hasn’t transpired, but I’m sure it will over the next 24 hours.

“I do feel as though I’ve let down the Serbian fans. Now, I’m not just saying this to try and wriggle out of trouble or anything. I genuinely feel for those fans.

“If I could turn back time right? And I know we’ve all got PhDs in hindsight.

“The one thing where I overstepped the mark and this is certainly what’s really sort of angered Novak Djokovic and his camp, is the last comment I made in that back and forth with the crowd. ‘Kick him out’.

“Now I can stand here and put whatever spin I want in that, but it can only be interpreted as a throwback to the Covid years when he was kicked out. Now that that has angered Novak, which I completely understand now.

“So look, it’s it has been an unfortunate situation. It’s been one of personal angst for Novak.
“It’s quite clearly personal angst for me as well. But I just think the priority here now is to focus on the tennis again.”

 

[giantroo]