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It would be no different if a rider was visibly drunk in the pits after a race. No WADA violation. But AMA may not be pleased with this conduct, so they could suspend a rider for any amount of time they see fit.
The Shop
The burden of proof is on Tickle now, I’m not sure how he wins this against a monster who has lawyers in house and the contracts on their side!
In the case of Puerto Rico and U.S. riders participating for that team, it's a U.S. territory, just like Guam. (Hmm...could we have another team under the Guam banner?)
From Wikipedia:
The United States currently administers 16 territories as insular areas:
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Minor Outlying Islands:
Bajo Nuevo Bank
Baker Island
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Islands
Navassa Island
Palmyra Atoll
Serranilla Bank
Wake Island
http://racerxonline.com/2017/11/03/privateer-profile-cade-clason-addres…
Our sport is a hick sport. That Will never change. Like Nascar we need to follow their principles and guidelines for its testing procedures as it works and it fair. While our sport is loved by us the "good old's boys" It Will never be recognized as a real sport in the eyes of politics.
Bottom line is our sport doesnt need Fim or its sanctioning bodies because our sport is small and is worth peanuts compared to other world sport orginizations. It isnt looked at as a real sport in many eyes and Fim and wada enforcing their ridiculous rules and bogus testing procedures is out of control.
I believe like Js7, Tickle will lose his motivation to race ever again. I can only imagine the amount of time and frustration that these riders had to sit with. These guys aren't 20. Not too mention Tickle claiming he was in the best shape if his life phisically.....sad!
So, that would never happen. But, assuming it did, and the AMA went off on its own to run races, as you suggest, those races wouldn’t be FIM-backed and would not, in the case of SX, carry the title of world championship. ‘So what?’, you might say. Well, firstly when the AMA leaves the FIM’s fold, the FIM would I imagine seek out a replacement for the departed AMA - a new US federation or promoter to run their FIM-backed races instead of the AMA mutineers. Someone like, say, Youthstream. So, I think you’d have your ‘rebel’ AMA series, and you’d have a second FIM-backed race series, still with drug testing, but now run by YS. Then, believe me, drug testing would be the least of your worries.
And, of those two competing race series’, the OEM’s will always follow the FIM races. Why? Because the FIM is the world governing body of motorcycling. The OEM’s make motorcycles. They work with the FIM across all areas of motorcycling, and contest world championships held under the FIM’s umbrella in all other forms of motorcycle racing. Why would they side with a non-FIM sanctioned rebel AMA race series that’s competing head-to-head against the official FIM world championships just because one Supercross guy got caught with PEDs in his urine?
That’s my understanding. FTE might correct me...
It wouldnt take much to create our own non profit organization to better facilitate racing and rules.
Pit Row
I’m not a fan of wada or how they conduct business, period.
WADA lays out the code. This includes the banned substance list and amounts, the penalty maximums, and then the athletic federations are signatories to this code. In this case, the FIM agrees to conduct their antidoping as per the WADA code. In Tickle's case, his penalty will come from WADA, it will come from the FIM. WADA has to agree on the penalty, but if the FIM said 6 months and WADA agreed then he'd get 6 months. If they didn't agree it could end up in the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) but generally WADA will back the federation.
As explained earlier, with respect to Canadian moto, the Jetworx series is not CMA/FIM sanctioned so in theory a rider like Tickle or Clason could race in Canada. HOWEVER, there is a provision in the WADA code that stipulates the rider is banned from any competition and that competing would extend the start date of the ban. So if Broc raced up here this summer, and only got a 1 year ban, it could in theory not start until the end the Canadian series, instead of the day after San Diego. That would be a massive difference for him. In Clason's case, he is basically racing in Canada and fully knows he's going to to get screwed by his suspension start date. In many ways he's just giving up on racing SX, in my opinion.
I've said this before multiple times but the problem here is not WADA, the problem here is the FIM. They are the ones dragging things along at a snail's pace and not communicating with the riders.
As a guy who raced a bicycle on the road at a decently high level, I unfortunately had the experience of finding out many years later that many of the guys I raced against and guys who beat me in my backyard were using EPO, HGH etc. I was a guy working a full-time job, and then trying to compete. I had some decent results in a couple of big races. I always thought none of the domestic pro riders in the early 2000s were doping.....that only went on in Europe, there was no money in North America, etc. Turns out I was wrong. Now, none of my results in said races were going to affect my life in any way, I was already in my 30s and non one was coming to hand me a pro contract. But when I slowly started to uncover all the guys who were doping in that time....yeah I was a bit bitter about it. But, I had friends who should have went to the Olympics on the MTB for Canada in 2004, but missed out because the guys who went were dopers. Those guys have way more reason to be bitter. Another friend missed out on the 2012 Olympics because a doper from that 2004 MTB team was now a road racer and got the nod to represent Canada, even though he never had to serve any suspension ever for his admissions to doping.
So this is why WADA and clean sport matter. When Jason Anderson hoists his #1 plate in Vegas, I'm happy to know he passed every drug test he had to take. Ditto for Herlings or Cairoli in MXGP. Or Marc Marquez in MotoGP. We all love a great race, a great battle, a great series. For me at least, part of loving that is knowing the athletic component of it is being done on an equal playing field.
I'm out.
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