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But a 4 year ban is a career ender. No matter what.
Maybe one day these guys will quit wasting their money with these testing contracts.
WADA uses this sentence length across all sports it governs, it's based around the Olympic sports cycle.
But they still took his 2 year suspension and made it a retroactive 16 months. So it allowed him to line up at A1 in 2016. For all that was worth.They showed a glimpse of leniency. But if he hadn't raced those couple nationals, maybe they reduce the suspension further or get rid of it all together. When you flagrantly disregard their Almighty WORLD ruling they take umbrage.
If the results hold up, Tickle will be done (age/suspension length) either way in AMA/FIM competition, so why not race Canada if that's an option to continue making money, even if its a fraction of his current income level.
Where is WADA in the NFL? Baseball? WWE ?(lol on that one). Why is SX/MX so strict on this petty stuff?
The NFL/MLB/NBA all have their own testing programs and penalty programs approved by their Players Unions and leagues. That's why a first offense in the NFL is a 4 game suspension, not a 4 year suspension. But the NFL is a multi Billion dollar per year business, where Super/Motocross is a 10-20 million dollar per year business.
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What about Red Bull KTM for the Outdoors?
Filthy Phil Nicoletti?
Call up from TLD team, McElrath maybe?
Do they they cancel Tickle's contract and free up $ to get another rider? We know riders still get paid during injuries, but there's got to be a stipulation in his contract that voids it for any positive drug tests and/or suspensions? Sucks for Broc and his family if thats the case
Only truly level field is if they all can take it. However in that case athletes will keep pushing pharmaceutical boundaries until tell drop dead. And that ends up turning fans off.
This Tickle case and the previous Stewart case illustrates how ridiculous the doping laws are. The ever expanding list of banned substances is making things a joke. If you can't take a product half the high school and college kids take, and/or a product you can buy at any health store it's gone way too far.
This also illustrates how impotent the AMA is after signing American racers rights over the FIM. Again ridiculous.
They didn't budge for one of the sports biggest stars but that could also be a black thing, I don't know. Be interesting how it pans out in that respect.
NOTE: not trying to stir up the racism thing, just wondering if there is anything there underlying because we all know some people still harbor it deep down.
But If he can show that he took those in good hearted faith, then his sentence can be only 6 months like Maria Sharapova. But then he needs to prove that for example his vitamin-supplements suddenly changed recipes, or that his shake what he used to drink changed recipes, or that he took his wives diet pills one day sleepdrunk (Dutch Rider once told that story), or that he uses a supplement sponsor in faith, believing that what they gave him was 100% WADA prove. Can't he prove a story like that, he can be punished badly.
But lets wait till the B-sample is tested, if he requests a test.
Can’t fix stupid, as they say.
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