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Besides that, the penalties ARE UN FUCKING REAL. Good god I mean this isn’t the olympics why give out the same penalties! It’s really quite puzzling to me.
Not a fan of tickle at all, but man what a blow to his camp. Really a sad story and it’s obvious the FIM, AMA, and WADA have some serious issues to iron out. Just my .2
Go back a few years to Winter Olympics and Alain Baxter was stripped of bronze medal for using usual brand of inhaler but made in a different country - every athlete should be very careful of the minefield that is PED’s
One is clearly a drug and the other (as far as im aware) is legal and used in alot of prework supplements? If the punishment is the same my opinion is that they should have some kind of scale. Ruining a career over a legal powerbar is harsh.
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Then if they fail, suspend them for 1 week, 2nd failure 4 weeks, 3rd failure the season. Too small of a sport to scare people about taking a shot of espresso
Can someone remind me how the FIM got involved in SX in the first place? I can't remember exactly how all of that went down.
Again, I have a problem with guys illegally enhancing, but the punishment should fit the crime. This is basically a "death penalty" for a riders career...for a first time offense, no less. I get it, the "risk" element of the "risk vs. reward" for doping has to be high enough that it discourages an athlete for doing it, but in this case the penalty is way TF over the top.
good post Guy B..yes on both..the sport should be legit..but not what they did to JS...also tell the f
FIM to get the hell out of here this is an american sport started here..they can't even pay their own riders!
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1) The quality control and labeling requirements in the supplement industry is crap, total crap. Meaning that what is shown on the label of a product and what is actually in the product is most likely incorrect. I've been told by multiple fitness trainers who do what they do for a living, that there is no governing body that regulates the supplement industry. I'm going to assume that is true as I believe them. Maybe someone else can confirm this - or discredit it. Why in the world would an elite athlete who makes a living use supplements that run that risk? Just eat REAL food.
2) I work in the industrial chemical industry and have for +20 years. Certified testing labs make mistakes all the time - or in some cases there are testing interferences that throw test results off. I see this all the time and this is coming from multiple labs all of which have multiple certifications. Having a lab mistake is certainly not out of the question. Was Broc tested more than once before he received the suspension?
I support drug testing, but a 4 year suspension on a first offense is like giving death penalty for going 95 mph in a 65 mph zone. A 1 year suspension? Ok, fine. That would be a strong deterrent. 4 Years? Completely asinine.
At the end of the day this is a spectacle that keeps getting crazier and more dangerous and nobody is protecting our riders. These companies and contractors are grabbing everything they can and getting away with a lot more than 20% of these riders checks!!!!
Once you know how to pick up a dumbbell, your trainer is your drug protocol go to go. That is 100% why I would hire a "Coach or Trainer" That is why MMA Guys hire weight cut gurus. For the drugs and a weight cut protocol. Period.
I could list some names, who that is why they are hired. Period. No other reason. Why would you hire a guy to help you drop 50 lbs in 3 days if you didn't need drugs and someone who knows how to use it?
2. No.
Because you can pin a couple grams of some gear ~ 24 hours out and still test clean. 48 hours and its like it never existed.
A recent JACKED MMA guy got popped. Tested Mid Level normal before just prior to a fight. Under suspicion of how a dude that looked like that could test mid level normal, They pulled Piss and blood right after the fight. His coaches and trainers didnt think that far ahead.
His Test levels were well over 1500, some say it was almost 4,000. That means from the first test, to the 2nd pull, he went back on.
This is why some in MMA want lifetime bans. You get popped, you are done. It's far too easy to cheat.
They can't catch most of them anyway, look at bicycles. The "trainers" are way ahead of the "testers".
Why is it that a career of MX makes so many guys forehead and eyebrow bones get bigger?
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