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As it stands currently, his last race was Seattle SX.
If and when he gets a hearing, the suspension should retro-date back to that race and start from there.
This is why he chose not not to race at the Transworld Slam race and other purse paying events.
All opinions aside, I can tell you that this whole deal has been very frustrating for everybody involved.
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Apparently, a few years ago, there was a road racer suspended for a month by FIM. WADA appealed that decision to an arbitrator. So I guess WADA is interested in seeing violators penalized as much as possible.
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/fim-moto2-racer-anthony-west-suspen…
The penalties need to be adjusted to non- Olympic time frames, but the hearings need to be carried out in a timely fashion with better communication all around.
Like it or not,a failed drug test by a professional athlete is nothing more than a failed IQ test.
Broc is being the teenager waiting at home for his punishment before he decides to sneak out.
Also with Stewart’s CAS hearing it was 7 months after his failed test. The Test was in April (4/12/14) at the Seattle Supercross, results were announced in June (6/17/14), and the hearing was in October (10/23/14), with a ruling in December (12/17/14).
On that timeline Tickle should have a hearing date soon.
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The WADA-sanctioned AMA SX/MX championships are simply racing series that people choose to compete in. they don't possess all-transcending rulesets that people need to live their lives by. In no way; shape or form should they be influenced by what an athlete chooses to do outside of their jurisdiction. That is the definition of subjective, irrational decision making.
Does the Canadian SX series have any interest in the WADA program? If I'm Tickle, I want to know that the WADA penalty won't eventually be levied in the Canadian series.
Both Tickle and Stewart's case are good examples of why WADA/USADA need to change their model. We only have Stewart and Tickle's words as to what they took and what is happening.
It would be easy for Stewart to say that his actual EPO use was amphetamine and it was a prescription for ADD.
It's easy for Tickle to say it's a cross contamination issue when it could really be a real PED.
There's no reason to doubt these guys, but obviously a lot of speculation is derived from the suspect/victim's mouths.
WADA's position with these sports outside of the olympics is to publish results (athlete could sign a waiver under certain circumstances that WADA could release medical information in a failed test). Let the sanctioning bodies publish and control the penalty.
It all goes back to the fact that as long as they have somebody to replace you.....they don’t care!
Thats why they brought in Wada/Usada. To help clean it up and try and prevent that from happening again knowing people were being tested Pre, maybe after, and randomly in the testing pool.
You guys should be glad moto doesnt fall under the states athletic commissions. They are far tougher on penalties than Wada/Usada/.
In fact, they have added time to guys to penalties set by Wada and Usada or the promotion itself.
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