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The FIM and WADA bring nothing but trouble. The sport did fine before them and I'm sure it'll be fine without them.
He was just popped hot AGAIN.
His latest infraction I havent found what he popped for other than "Stimulants"
The Shop
I think it’s time for self policing for SX, MX & MXGP all u def the umbrella of FIM, any punishments could be decided by a panel with maybe 5 members - 3 of these MUST be ex riders. You could have ex MXGP riders decide on AMA and reverse for MXGP this would (hopefully) ensure fairness and a major understanding of riders point of view. It could be the panel is voted for so no ‘cronies’ get in
https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/world-supersport-anthony-west-deni…
Thats like getting 2 DWI's and blaming the grocery where you bought the booze!
No one at Wada or a lab knows these people and the people at the lab have no idea who specimen # 123456789xyz is.
They report what they find.
Mike Dolce explained this in a recent rant as well. Gotta place the blame where it is deserved, and he did in an F bomb laden rant.
Not too hard to check every single rider 2-3 times a year. This random testing is not all that effective anyways. Make it so you have to test 2-3 times a year to keep your license, I have to get tested to keep my Captains License, there are many more USCG Captains in the world than there are professional Motorsports athletes, somehow they get it done.
Regardless if this Alexander guy deserved to get popped or not, the FIM and WADA handling of the incident is atrocious.
WADA is not going to get involved in results management with FIM events unless the FIM fails to enforce the code sanctions (which is what happened in the West case). Certainly unfair results management process issues with the FIM likely would get vetted at CAS, not WADA (WADA itself answers to the Court for Arbitration in Sport).
The issue of FIM fairness is different from whether the hard time periods of the Code’s sanctions make sense with motocross’s frequency of competition. Personally, regardless whether the process is managed (1) competently and quickly or (2) without bias, the WADA penalty regime is pretty harsh. But, folks signed up for it.
DC
Racer X
In the Tickle/Clawson cases I've wondered how things became so FUBAR. The process really isn't that difficult. What would possess the FIM management (at the time) to simply ignore it? How did this benefit the FIM? Rhetorical questions to which we will probably never get an answer.
Lots of full hearings are on youtube.
They aren't all that harsh, and in fact offered one guy leniency if he would help them understand how people are passing tests when clearly they are dirty!
So you get banned but offered a job!
If the the above passage from a recent Racer X article is indeed true, american riders should demand separation from the FIM and WADA prior to the 2020 season. I challenge someone to point out any other sport with a worldwide participation of drug tested athletes and see if the ratio of US series suspensions (3) versus zero for the rest of the world has actually happened. Zero, ZERO??? That number is about as believable as a cow physically jumping over the moon.It is clear at this point that the FIM has honed in on american riders for punishment and if I was an american rider, I would frankly have ZERO confidence in the whole drug testing process right now.
Pit Row
I've always thought WADA was shady... Anytime people start talking about fairness and that people need to know whats in their system..I personally believe it to be suspect.
https://www.icarus.film/
It says everything you need to know about wada... it's also very entertaining. much more than a documentary.
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