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I wonder if ktm treats all their other employees the same or if they offer them the aforementioned help. This is ridiculous, this could be something as simple as a supplement/food processor tainting a batch of its product, and now this guy is unemployed. One offense that is hardly proveable to be the subjects explicit fault and now his life is more or less in shambles.
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Makes no financial sense.
Pit Row
I just know Stewart didn’t race for awhile. Did Suzuki keep him on the payroll? I had just assumed he was let go, never really looked into it obviously
1. Malcolm isn't going to be filling that spot.
2. KTM's action was premature. Broc was provisionally suspended. No one is/was associating Broc's use of a banned substance with KTM, other than the possibility of their relationship with Aldon Baker.
3. Broc is handling this the right way in my opinion. Holding the FIM and WADA accountable in both transparency and timeliness. Utilizing an attorney in any social media communication regarding the case.
Broc has a long journey ahead of him. FIM/WADA isn't gunning after Broc Tickle. They don't give a shit who he is. They go strictly by the test results they receive. Broc's attorney appears to be asking for transparency in the case. The process of administering the test, labeling the sample, sealing the sample, transporting the sample, the margin of error in the test, the accuracy/history of the labs that tested it. I think he has every right to know that kind of information.
Most of this is conjecture so I apologize but I truly believe this is going to get very ugly. He was very aware of the clause in his contract. He had to be aware that the risk was not worth the minimal gain. For whatever reason I trust Broc. I'm not going to defame Aldon but I think he is very aware of what he is doing. I think he is willing to run the line for optimal performance within the parameters provided. My honest, worthless opinion is that someone (Broc or Aldon) knew exactly what he was ingesting, but timed it wrong. They took it too late resulting in the substance remaining in his body longer than it was supposed to.
"Can you talk about a season with James still around. None of us really knew what you guys were going to do with him, but it seems like he’s been around quite a bit doing the signings. What’s that like having a suspended rider but still he’s one of your guys and having him around?
It’s been a challenge. There was kind of no playbook on how to do this. My view is the relationship with James is solid; we stand behind him 100 percent. I think we were the first of his big sponsors to do that, and the other guys said, hey, Suzuki’s staying behind him, and they all stayed behind him. Frustration is a great word, challenging is a great word. We worked it out. Obviously I can’t pay him what I was, but we worked out a PR amendment to his contract so he comes to the races, he works with Blake, and he does some PR for Suzuki and Yoshimura.
Basically we just kind of finalized discussions to re-sign him for the next two years. He hasn’t signed yet, but we have it all in place. Our goal is it’ll be James and Blake—they will be our two riders."
wada needs to go period... there needs to be a point where a team stands up and lets the person race and tells wada to fuck off. I swear people/ teams dont have backbones.
What happens to a team that doesn't obey the godlike rule of wada? or better yet what happens to the promoters.. Im assuming its a loss of money or do you end up in court? why would anybody sign a contact with these people (wada). It blows my mind the people in charge don't have the foresight of crap like this happening. making all that money and cant think of the major what if scenarios that can ruin your product/event you're putting on.
downright embarrassing
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