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So what we learn from this story is:
- Take as much blood doping, hormones, testosterone, EPO etc as your body can take.
- Make yourself a 250 sx terror, then play the injury thing for outdoor 250.
- Then, possibly, if you win enough to move up, that is no big deal as anyway financially you have earn more than working at a local shop during 40 years.
- Then you finally get caught, possibly if you are top 10, so there comes the 4 years ban anyway.
With no understanding and black and white strategy, actually I think this WADA / FIM system ENCOURAGES to take the SERIOUS doping.
Your ignorance to this makes you look dumb for calling them lazy and bribed.
The Shop
Yes. I remember.
What MX truly needs is a USADA run program similar to what the UFC has. It would be better than what Feld and MX Sports are doing. The biggest benefit being that unlike USADA’s oversight of out-of-competition testing for the U.S. Olympics, athletes found with banned substances who contest the findings don't have their cases arbitrated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. A separate appellate court handles the disputes.
Huge difference and it produces a much better end result with education for athletes and punishment for offenders more closely matched and tailored to the specific sport.
Almost every other sport in the world is happy to accept WADA / CAS guidelines on ban lengths. They try to make them standardised across all sports for the same offence.
Almost all, except for some fans of certain riders on VitalMX. They believe the penalties are all wrong, and somehow if the testing was done in the USA then American riders who fail drug tests would get shorter bans.
Not going to happen, Sorry but USADA will follow WADA’s lead and if won’t make any difference. It’s always the system, the FIM. WADA, FELD’s fault when a rider gets banned, and never the rider’s fault if you read this forum.
Anyone remember how badly and unfairly JS7 was treated by WADA? He promised to let his fans know exactly what went down as soon as the case was over. Well James we’re still waiting...
https://www.usada.org/about/world-anti-doping-code/
Where the differences lie is that the AMA is the governing body for MX and the FIM is the governing body for SX. And the FIM is absolutely brutal in terms of its communication with the riders and getting things done in a timely fashion. This is ultimately what Broc is up against.
What MX definitely does not need is its own independent program. Once it goes out of the hands of WADA/USADA it will become political and the possibility for corruption increases massively.
I just listened to Tickle's interview. I really want to believe him....he seems like a good guy and probably too nice to willingly cheat. But my 20+ years in bike racing has jaded me in a huge way. Tyler Hamilton was also a "nice guy"...too nice to cheat, etc. And he was a hardcore doper extreme.
If I was in Baker's program I would probably tell him to pound sand on the Mind-FX crap.
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