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On your point of this being a sad day in the sport. That is all it is. "In the sport" No national media is picking this up and none of them care. They care about what Football Johnny is doing this weekend not that James Stewart tested positive at a race they didn't even cover. They don't care about this sport. The world cup is going on and that is more important than anything.
ESPN may run an AP story on it on their racing page but you will never see this in the National media taking front and center.
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I admit, if this is a rule and it's broken, I guess you have to follow it, but I will also say, rules and laws are not always correct. It's like saying Slavery used to be legal too so are you saying it was fine back in the day?. Ya get what I'm saying? (Please no comments from yo rednecks on this, even if you had some read this for you.)
In the end, however, I will say that if James is not racing, what's the point? Sure, there are some good riders, but aside from Trey and possibly Reed, nobody else can make the race exciting. Sure, there are other riders that might win, but would it really be exciting like James, Trey, or Reed coming through the pack? Probably not.
If James is not on the front line and is banned for the year, who gains?
Maybe it's time to do away with the drug testing or to specify what we are specifically looking to ban. Don't poppy seeds of a bagel come of positive? Yes, they do. Very scientific, indeed.
Always? Every single prescription is legitimate? It's impossible to get a prescription without actually having ADHD?
Is there an objective ADHD test?
You can infer what you want.
An ADHD diagnosis is subjective.
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But my understanding is that a person with ADHD has a brain that gets "bored" in situations where it's not having to work promptly. All a drug like Adderal is going to do is stimulate brain activity, but that doesn't necessarily lead to focus, especially with a person who doesn't have ADHD. I recently read an article suggesting that college kids (like myself) who have taken Adderal to cram for tests/write last minute papers don't gain any performance advantages from the drug beyond the fact that it helps them stay awake longer and gives them a sense of enjoyment. I've read that taking caffeine before a workout also helps in the exact same way - more energy and more enjoyment. But you're not actually gaining focus or increased mental ability like many swear by. In fact, it can still have the opposite effect on people who don't have ADHD, which was my experience (took some addi before writing a paper, ended up surfing Vital and ThumperTalk for an hour or two then passed out and went to bed).
The ant-doping agencies need to re-evaluate the list of drugs by sport and by illness/medical issues. So, lets say a guy does have ADHD....they would rather have him bouncing off the fucking walls like a ping pong ball and send him on the track then have him treated so he is stable and then let him ride. Makes zero sense.
God forbid you get a cold, go into the drug store and whip out your list of WADA banned substances before you buy your sudafed. Give me a break!
Like they haven’t completely ruined their own GP series?
I admit I expected something to come down on Stewart but it sure as hell shouldn’t be decided by the money grubbing scumbags at the FIM.
p.s. Aren't you supposed to be studying for the bar?
it goes
FIM
AMA or what ever countries name it is (MA in Australia)
Local club
all affiliates and by being that way get affordable insurance for races
that's the way it was when I was a secretary of a club
WADA is racist. Get em james! lmao
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Restless Leg Syndrome? Wasn't a medically recognized disorder until after the drug company found a way to market a particular medicine as a cure for RLS. Only then was RLS recognized as a medical disorder, and prescriptions started flying like singles at a titty bar.
There are some really stupid things on the banned list for WADA and USADA. I had a friend who's as straight laced as they come. He trained super hard to qualify for the Ironman World Championships and left it all out there. Had a great race and earned his spot to Kona. Took 2 800mg ibuprofen to ease the pain in his knees about 2 miles to go in the 140.6 mile race and pissed positive. (Yes, they test the top Age group athletes as well) He was crushed.
USADA and WADA are a joke as far as I'm concerned. People test positive for the dumbest shit that has no bearing on anything. They train and work hard and get a positive test and labeled a cheater and they haven't really cheated anyone.
We had the US Olympics going on in 2012 and instead of testing olympic athletes, Travis Tygart had such a hard on for nailing Lance, that's where all his focus was. And for what? What good really came of that? Did Lance REALLY cheat? The entire peloton was doped to the gills. It was a level playing field. So everyone that doped WITH Lance gets off, but Lance gets a lifetime ban? How's that true justice? 6 people who did the exact same thing get nothing, but the 7th guy Lance gets nailed to the cross. Why is there 7 years of the TDF not have a winner now? Because everyone that raced from 99-05 has pissed positive at some point or another. They couldn't give the wins to anyone.
So yes, Tygart does like to witchunt the top names in any sport. He doesn't care about the sports. He cares about his own fame and becoming the Eliot Ness of anti-doping.
If JS7 was truly intending to cheat, adderal is a poor choice. This whole thing is just the beginning. USADA likes BIG names. Tygart and Navitsky are ruthless. They will stop at nothing.
Oh wait.. Wrong issue.
I just graduated from a terminal degree program, I'd guess that between 30-40% of my graduating class has been diagnosed with an attention disorder. People were super open about the PEDs they were taking to study.
As for the "you can't get a prescription for Adderall if you don't have ADHD" I hiope that was tongue in cheek. I was one of the Ritalin kids of the late 60s/early 70s. About 10 years ago I decided I wanted to try it as an adult after a friend who had never been diagnosed started taking it and said it turned his life/business around. I called my doctor and told him, he wrote me a prescription on the spot. I tried it a couple of days and decided I hated how it made me feel, so I sold the rest at the local high school.
Anyone who thinks you can't get a prescription for almost anything is naive.
That's a joke about selling it at the High School, it was actually Jr. High.
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