 Poster: A snowHead
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AB Ski, you are right on both your statements. The exact idea is to get the results you'd expect from banned drugs by means of mixing a lot of legal ones.
The fans are just as guilty - would anyone watch athletics if 100 m would be run in over 10.5 seconds, or in the high jump, the men's results would average 2.05 meters? |
Probably. Doesn't excitment in sport come from the closeness of the competition?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Key quotes in the BBC article, explaining the difference in treatment of Baxter and Schoenfelder.... (think the original article has been updated since I first added the link, don't recall reading this):
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| The doping code was changed in the light of Baxter's case in 2000. |
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Sarah Lewis, secretary-general of the International Ski Federation, told the BBC Sport website: "We haven't been officially informed by the Austrian Ski Federation as to the decision regarding Schoenfelder. But the current drugs code does state that if a drug is ingested by accident through medical use, as in Schoenfelder's case, then the penalty ranges from a warning to a 12-month ban. The World Anti-doping Agency or FIS could appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if we felt the penalty given was outside the perameters. But the Austrian Ski Federation has done nothing wrong in this case."
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I see...
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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From an AP article
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| [Skiing star refuses doping rules] "New rules that go into effect in Norway on June 1, and worldwide Aug. 13, require athletes to keep their federations informed of their whereabouts at all times for possible drug tests." |
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| Alpine skiing star Lasse Kjus pledged to defy new doping rules requiring athletes to keep authorities posted of their whereabouts, Norway's biggest newspaper reported Thursday. |
Given the apparent ability of the machine behind performance-enhancing drugs to stay one step ahead of the game, is this new FIS ruling entirely unreasonable as Kjus suggests?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That said it does appear as if the authorities are making some progress... and as for retrospective testing and penalties - well, why didn't they introduce this earlier? That's got to have a deterrent effect....
Drug net closing fast on cheats
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WORLD anti-doping authorities are preparing to spring the next trap for unwary drug cheats by introducing a test for human growth hormone /........./ "This is a very strong warning to any athlete who thinks they are using growth hormone that's undetectable that they won't be able to rely on that," Mendoza said.
"The new test is in its final stages. Even if it's not ready, I understand the IOC is planning to retain the samples from Athens for up to two years, so they can test retrospectively if necessary."
Mendoza also signalled that tests for a range of EPO-related blood-boosting drugs were also about to come on line. |
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