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Listening to the post race press conference from last night, and if I understood correctly, he implied that he would have a pay deduction if he disclosed the extent of his injury. If I’m correct in interpreting that, teams are not only asking athletes to hide injuries, but are penalizing them financially if they don’t?
My guess is that it was a bike issue that caused the injury.
Now that legitimate wagering is going on for Supercross, the riders and teams have to be real careful about injury disclosure. All it takes is one gambler with deep pockets to find out a rider they lost a bet on had an undisclosed or downplayed injury. The lawsuits would fly. Rider, team, promoter, everyone would get sued.
Is that how it is in other sports? Some teams are notorious for putting no one or everyone on the injured lists.
This is not at all true. You have no expectation of having all or accurate info when you place a bet and you fully assume that risk. whatever he's talking about has nothing to do with gambling. Leagues that have rules about injury disclosure have it as rule that was collectively bargained for. The leagues want to keep bettors and fantasy players happy but there's no legal liability involved.
It was a very odd comment and I was not sure what he meant. Wasn't sure if he was saying he could be fined for disclosing something per his contract or if he was saying he only gets paid to race so not doing so would cost him money?
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No. Sports that have injury disclosure have it as part of negotiated league rules and they still lie all the time about it. In college you won't find out a player is hurt or suspended until they don't show up for warmups sometimes. Bettors assume all the risk on this stuff.
More interested in why nobody is talking about Webbs damn fine performance last night. He straight up beat Jett, finished 2nd overall and he had shit for qualifying times earlier.
Last night was the first time I heard of riders getting fined for talking about injuries or have it in your contract to not talk about an injury.
That’s the Webb way, which I used to dislike, but now I find it friggin awesome. Both he and Kenny can put it down when the gate drops.
Same. I had no idea manufacturers were essentially putting hush money into contracts.
He never qualifies well but gets after it during race time
Do you think they are allowed to badmouth their bikes?
If anyone follows him on Strava you could have figured out he was hurt in December
It's not clear to me that's what he was saying. Could also be taken as he gets paid to race so that's why he's racing. He could still disclose injury without going into detail about what caused the accident if it was a bike problem. Surely they aren't putting clauses in contracts that limit a rider's ability to disclose an injury?
I need to go relisten but I believe the language he used specifically said he’d be penalized for talking about it
"Yeah I mean it's hard, contractually I'm trying not to get a pay deduction so can't really speak about it even though I'm racing, anyway yeah it was tough, at the test track had a little get off...."
So weird. Maybe this was why Deegan was so dumb about his injury last year as well?
I guess we are just left to speculate but I was thinking after hearing that that a mechanical caused his crash and injury and he doesn't want to point at the part the broke or he got a concussion and didn't want to paint the new helmet in a bad light. He said he was off the bike for 4 weeks so I'm just trying to figure out the type of injury that takes 4 weeks to get back on the bike...
I was thinking concussion also. He also looked pretty stunned after that WSX crash. Compounding head injuries?
Maybe a bike issue caused a crash and he can't talk about it ???
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Not sure he's ever looked this good on the west coast. Series heads east now gonna be interesting
Could be so many things. Broke Collarbone, sprained or broken wrist, thumb, ankle etc. We’ll probably find out next fall lol.
Even if it was bike issue, all you do is bring attention to it by being like this when all you had to do was say "I came up short on a jump and broke blah blah blah etc....."
Guys crash all the time and unless you give people reason to suspect it, by behaving like this, people just say oh damn he crashed and got hurt and that's as far as it goes. I don't think I'll ever understand some of this nonsense in this sport.
Mitch should just proactively put the entire roster on the injury list.
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Maybe it more has to do with him not being in his full capacity to race, he gets a pay deduction? He is there to race for wins and championships. Kind of performance based contract.
But if it is like that, it's just stupid. Keep him from getting correct medical assistance more or less.
Pretty sure NHL doesn’t disclose injuries. I assume many other sports are similar.
Web qualifies like I ride, pure shit
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Dude also says he riding a bike with the base setup for the east coast.
Once we head east. He might ride even better
Even the years he doesn’t win the title. For 17 rounds he is there.
When Mike Leach coached Washington State, he didn’t turn in injury reports. He said that if violated the HIPAA rights of the student athletes.
He could have been right.
I doubt that any MX/SX rider has a contract clause that says they need to report every injury, however small, to some sort of media outlet. Unless that’s the case, a guy like Webb has no contract, real or implied, with a gambler who places a bet on him.
Almost sounds like Star has them sign an NDA for anything that happens at the Farm.
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