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As for the punishment being too strict, it's completely in line with what penalties have been handed down in Road Racing.
Look at what Anthony West got in Moto2 for a decongestant or even what Angel Rodríguez received after testing positive for recreational drugs in a domestic Spanish race. Both penalties were greater than what Stewart has received.
Noriyuki Haga lost a shot at a title over an ingredient in diet pills he took in the off season.
Anthony Gobert is now running around stealing purses in Australia after failing multiple drug tests under both the FIM and AMA.
So boo freaking hoo. If your career is worth millions a year and your ability to earn is tied to a rulebook, then it would be best if you took the time to read and understand that rule book. Ignorance is not a defense.
The penalties that had been handed out before were all severe, so that's an even greater incentive ensure everything is in proper order if you're taking a substance on the banned list. It's not like this was some hidden ingredient in an over the counter medication. This was a known amphetamine that's on everybody's banned list.
And your point about this not being a one off penalty is also true, people think that this has been a witch hunt after Stewart when really that is not the case at all. He has recieved a similar penalty to several other athletes all over the world. Who he is shouldn't make any difference and it clearly hasn't. Which is good
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What I am thinking is that the world-wide governing body MUST be very cut-and-dried with how it sets and upholds its standards and the standards must be set in stone:
for example:
x drug is on the banned list.
x drug was found in athlete A's body.
Result = athlete A gets the standard punishment - PERIOD !
If the world governing body starts listening to all the arguments of all the athletes and starts "adjusting" its standards (downward) in an effort to "accommodate" the details of any athlete who has a gripe, in five years the whole system will be a mess and then an "all new governing body" will just have to be started all over again to try again to get the job done right. Look what a mess the biking sport has gone through with Lance Armstrong etc - I remember when I used to admire those bike riders and now when I think of the sport I just think of drugs.
Time to wake up people - We DO NOT want this to happen to our sport.
That is the type of standard I would expect from the entrance test for a school or something.
We are talking about professional sports here where it is a big business who wins.
We can not have this "well he is allowed to take a banned drug" mentality.
I think if a professional athlete "needs" a drug that is on the banned drug list, then he should just stop competing in a professional sport.
Profession sport (especially our wonderful sport of MX) should have NO ROOM at all for anything like a drug or a banned drug.
some years ago JS7 was having some problems finishing races and I guess he went to a doctor (who earns part of his income from his sponsor, the pharmaceutical industry) - and the doctor told JS7 that the solution is............. (you guessed it) to buy a product from the doctor's sponsor - (the pharmaceutical industry)
JS7 is just like 90% of Americans today, completely under the spell of the pharma industry
The pharma industry wants us to believe we are not responsible for ourselves, we are just victims and we can't help ourselves,,,,
The pharma industry WANTS us to believe this so we will buy their products.
many of you may not know what I am writing about, but some of you do.
In this case, I sure wish JS7 had not sought a solution from his doctor, then we would all be enjoying thinking about old works bikes etc instead of some boring drugs.
mike
My point is just that problems can be solved without the pharma industry.
There are natural solutions all over the world that are not marketed through the pharma industry.
Let me give you a little example, I experienced myself just a couple weeks ago, I finally got tired of having water clog my ear every time I went swimming.... I remembered my mom took me to a doctor when I was a boy and the doc squirted water into my ear, cleaned out the wax and I was good to go..... So I went to a doctor with the same thing in mind.... he looked inside and said I should go to the drug store and buy a specific brand of ear drops, use it a few days then he would squirt out my ear.
I asked the doc if I could just go buy some other brand of ear drops and he said no, I must buy the brand he suggested.
The pharmacy I visited on the way home did not have that specific brand and I was determined I had to follow the doc's advice so I was going to try again the next day to find the product.
I got home, jumped on the internet and in two minutes I was reading the solution was as simple as using olive oil.
I tried it and after a few days, problem gone, $0.00 spent
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Also, WADA the FIM and the lawyers that handled the case all had information on the case that we haven't got. Until that information is made public knowledge we can't say whether or not the ban was excessive
The funny thing is almost everyone is in agreement. James fault, penalty way too long.
It's eerily similar to the 4 stroke argument (sorry, ya I went there haha). They were the greatest thing and everyone wanted them at first, and now they are basically a curse word and commonly referenced as "killing the sport"
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