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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Is this surprising? The top athletes get tested wherever, whenever.
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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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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| Is this surprising? The top athletes get tested wherever, whenever. |
Totally, what a non "story", now had the headline been " Lindsey Vonn takes up golf.... Well!
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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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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
Lindsey Vonn, four-time World Cup overall ski champion and Olympic gold-medallist, was drug-tested by the IOC at at a New York fashion event on Monday evening ... according to the New York Post.
The paper reports that she passed the test. |
Are the samples processed, analysed and results provided so quickly?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Some chatter that test details deliberately leaked to head off PED rumours. Must be said US sites seem to hint at it being widely suspected in the coachinh world but then that is a country where roiding and hgh is widespread in NFL and MLB.
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^ ah Goldsmith beat me to the punch.
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I was thinking more along the lines of how Tiger losses the ability to drive when his parter practices her swing...
Maybe it's too early and she' happy just with putting practice!
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It wouldn't suprise me if there were illegal drugs being used in skiing...
In fact my pessimistic mind tells me that there are illegal drugs used in every professional sport.
There will always be people wanting to find that 'edge'...
The fact that Red Bull use this 'Doctor' and are willing to associate themselves and employ him speaks volumes to me considering his background.
The 'Doctors' seem ahead of the game. Did Lance Armstrong ever fail a drugs test? Did his sponsers pay off his governing body to keep quiet?
Money, Big business, sponserships etc,etc.... it's all too big for it not to exist imho.
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| spud wrote: |
It wouldn't suprise me if there were illegal drugs being used in skiing...
In fact my pessimistic mind tells me that there are illegal drugs used in every professional sport.
The fact that Red Bull use this 'Doctor' and are willing to associate themselves and employ him speaks volumes to me considering his background.
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Indeed. But let's not forget that a lot of one of GB's finest Olympic sports has been built using East German coaching, very few sports have zero tolerance in practice when it comes to success
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Gr%C3%B6bler
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| spud wrote: |
It wouldn't suprise me if there were illegal drugs being used in skiing...
In fact my pessimistic mind tells me that there are illegal drugs used in every professional sport.
The fact that Red Bull use this 'Doctor' and are willing to associate themselves and employ him speaks volumes to me considering his background.
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Indeed. But let's not forget that a lot of one of GB's finest Olympic sports has been built using East German coaching, very few sports have zero tolerance in practice when it comes to success
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Gr%C3%B6bler |
I don't think there is any sport that hasn't got illegal drugs in it...just me being pessimistic. Even as an Amateur, the successes bring you sponsership and money for the future.
Sport is a business... winning brings success and money... it's just too big imho. Sad i know...
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I still don't believe that they could decide that she passed the test after a few minutes. I don't know how drug testing works, but I don't think it's like a pregnancy test where you dip a stick in the urine and get an instant result. Wouldn't you need a lab to get a thorough analysis?
I would not be surprised if World Cup skiers use PEDs. Athletes in just about every other sport use them. It would be sad to hear that skiers were doping, but not surprising. I read a comment to Ski Racing magazine about how the stomach problems that Vonn had last season were similar to what cyclists experience after a bad blood transfusion. The person who wrote the comment was an elite-level cyclist.
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You know it makes sense.
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getting tested between 5 and 20 times per year? That's frikkin ridiculous. I compete in a sport where the sword of drug testing always hangs over you, and let me tell you, it's a royal PITA having to always - in all your everyday activities, every time you look at medication, etc - be conscious of possibly having to pee in a cup...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lindsey Vonn, four-time World Cup overall ski champion and Olympic gold-medallist, was drug-tested by the IOC at at a New York fashion event
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Wouldn't this story have been so much more fun if she had been 'fashion tested by the IOC at a New York drugs event'?
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