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Stewart : Suspended : But given a TUE for what he was suspended for .
Clason : Suspended: But continued to Race and Suspension just expired .
Tickle : Suspended : Gets to come back after round 7 next year
Craig : Could be suspended but maybe not Has been kept on the secret hush hush program.
This answered a question but raised another. They had said all along racing would extend the penalty...
It seems to me that having a state side organization as the primary testing and punishment authority makes the most sense as the athletes are in the same country and things can be handled much more efficiently.
At this point i don’t see how any rational being could argue FIM/WADA isn’t just making things up as they go...
Such a bizarre process with no actual "suspension" and just the phantom "provisional suspension." It's like someone saw the stalled paperwork and woke up today and was like "yeah, that's not good, let it go."
The problem is that drug testing is expensive and complicated so to try to do it in house would be too costly. It is not like a pregancy test where it is positive and done deal. Positive drugs tests are held to a much higher standard and it is why you hear about athletes getting off with ridiculous reasons (see Contador and Armstrong and their positive tests for PED's).
The two big problems with WADA is that they folllow a 4 year olympic cycle that is not good for MX. But MX is small potatos so they dont really care how a suspension effects a riders season (i.e. being able to start racing at the start of a season versus middle of a season and how that effects a riders chance of getting sponsored). This combined with poor communication with the athletes is a bad mix.
Pit Row
This makes as much sense as WADA/USADA penalties
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Racer X
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Racer X
Good to hear, likeable guy, served his penalty and then some, hope he can return to making SX mains again but it won’t be easy
Also, what's in place that would make it such that the sport isn't allowed to exist without them?
Not sure which lame-o's a couple of Genova's could bury in five years, he doesn't race outdoors.
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