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I never said there shouldn't be a penalty. I think it's good they have different levels of penalties though.
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Are there any long-term health risks I should worry about? I mean what's the downside? Seriously.
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Enjoy watching James before he retires!
I don't want to argue with you, I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from.
Now, back to the subject at hand, do you really want to try to understand where Kongols is coming from?
I would be willing to bet they likely had an in depth investigation to make sure he did for sure have the medication prescribed for a serious reason. I'm going to trust the powers whom decided that he did not take it for a cheating purpose. I'm going to guess that they will put him on a very serious probation with the stipulation that he better not f*ck up again.
Call me naive if you want. I'm just stoked that one of the greatest legends to ever throw their leg over a motorcycle is going to line up A1 (and possibly this weekend).
And seriously, the "if this had happened to X or Y they'd have been skinned" line just reveals people's hostility to Stewart, or their ignorance of the process. As people pointed out repeatedly, WADA will go around a sanctioning body to seek stiffer penalties if it believes the sanctioning body has let a star off too lightly. And the notion that some lesser rider in exactly the same circumstances would be treated more harshly completely begs the question of what it was in fact-specific terms would lead to the penalty as it eventually is assessed against Stewart.
Based on what I've heard about what happened at the test and before the provisional was publicized (and assuming that was true), what looks like is unfolding is fair result. Though, in truth, we really don't know precisely what's unfolding because it hasn't been finalized, right?
So, as usual, people are backfilling that vacuum of information with whatever speculation sustains their 14 year pissing match about Stewart.
what kind of society do you want to live in? I know I want to live in a society where people understand the motivation for the rules, that way they can be individually applied, instead of enforcing them on principle alone.
the point of drug testing is to prevent unregulated performance enhancers. It appears that James drug use, was in fact regulated, and not just by media accounts, but by the god damn logic presented by the various pieces of this story.
For me it's simple...If he did have a legitimate reason to use a drug, and that drug can be exempted for competition, then what difference does it make to his competition? Is the point of drug testing not to make competition fair? or is the point of drug testing to make sure you follow the drug testing rules accordingly?
...and on another note, if someone can use this drug with an exemption, your ok with that? Are you ok with some guys getting an advantage just because they have doctor say so?
You are butthurt. I know this because your projecting your resentment. If you wanted to argue that James should be punished because he didn't file his necessary paperwork, that is a valid argument, but any other argument is nonsense.
It's actually a pretty severe failure of the due process and privacy regime that WADA has in place, in part to protect the athletes in the initial stages and also to bolster the apparent integrity of the process to generate fair results in terms of determining whether a violation occurred and what the appropriate penalty is under the facts. WADA seems to have a pretty sober sense of how it can interfere with an athlete's livelihood, and has those protections in place so that the stigma that an athlete will inevitably suffer under isn't put into public play until the proper procedures have taken place to substantiate the violation. An initial failed test usually is not that point of publication (although the process can run it's course pretty quickly thereafter).
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