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Stay on topic, it’s easier for everyone.
2) he knows it started on the date of the race he got popped!
He is NOT in Limbo!
Until he comes in and says something different than “I didn’t take it into my body” and starts saying “I have the product and proof it was tainted”......no one here or anywhere is going to believe he has a shot at anything less than 4 years.
It’s not a harsh unreasonable stance it’s just a realistic stance.
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Which makes me think someone within the MX tent should anonymously push the story to a real investigative journalist. THAT could make waves.
Also, I get the fact that he's done the crime now he's doing the time. It just pisses me off how long it is for this sport, the lack of communication they say, and the fact that if you race another series it seems like they frown upon that.
Afterall, they even think Wada,Usada and the FIM does the testing when none of them have cracked the seal on a cup of piss or vial of blood yet. And never will. Yet they are to blame.
I do have an honest question though. During this suspension, provisional or otherwise, is there anything that says he can't be a part of a race team in some capacity. Like a mechanic, trainer, test rider, ect?
I do think there is a credible argument to be made in an American court that the FIM's results management process should be more transparent and expeditious, and that its faults prejudice athletes. That said, nothing I have read in either Stew's case or this one suggests that anyone in our sport, including agents, lawyers, team managers, has much of clue how the system works, and that doesn't make for sympathetic claimants. CAS, which is independent and pushes back on WADA in some cases, has pretty clear precedent on how these matters unfold, none of which should be a surprise to anyone worth his salt paying attention to his job.
Fixing the FIM process will have to come from within, and the initiative should be apart from resolving an individual case. Unfortunately, the only time people get worked up about it is when there's an incident, and there seems to be no will at the grassroots, national federation level, or at the FIM to devote the resources to a process fix that provides hard milestones that would provide a predictable schedule for athletes under scrutiny.
In all seriousness, I was shocked that Broc (apparently) went all-in on "fighting it", given the reality of dealing with the FIM, WADA, or Feld. It's gotta be really, really difficult to walk away from your US career based on something like this, but I can't help but think that he should've just taken Lucifa's (and many other posters here) route and simply saved his legal fees and gone to Canada.
I would bet a substantial amount of money that he'd be way, way ahead of the game by saving his money and making less in the Great White North, but I guess he's a gambler.
Nothing in WADA's history in MX (or any other sport) suggests to me that he made a good bet...
Truthfully, I think you nailed it with biting the hand that feeds. You have to want to make waves.
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If you dont have a cold and you take it...is ita performance enhancing drug? Absolutely not as it tends to leave you somewhat drowsy..
Your logic is an example of your dim wittedness... ive known of quite a few performance enhancing drug cheats in Australian motocross ...some prominent ones that havent been caught...others that have..that were witnessed by close friends injectin banned substances into bad knees and taking steroids etc..What tickle is accused of taking is absolutely nothing and in no way even remotely worth the risk of getting caught...think b4 you type...Tickle is no fool and makes his living in a professional sport subject to random drug testing ...would he really do that for some supposed benefit from what he is accused of taking? If you truly believe that then you are an idiot..
He is being criticised for being unprofessional in not knowing exactly what he was taking...how unprofessional is it of the drug testing authority to have to take several months to get to his case?
Wada us a bad joke..
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