Doping in other sports?

[Izzyeviel]

Baseballer caught for Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone

Cubs' Peters handed season ban for positive test

Chicago Cubs right-hander Mathew Peters has been suspended for the 2024 season under the minor league drug program following a positive test for a performance-enhancing substance.

www.espn.co.uk

 

[Ripper]

‘Rules based order,’ in all its glory

What is this post about?

 

[Shakes]

What about ? https://enhanced.org/

I like the experiment. Of course now all marketed as helping humanity but still interesting how far people will go for a win. I however hope real sports will never become a free for all. I don't believe in humanity enough for it not to go wrong and bring down everyone in a vicious circle.

 

[Sciatic]

What about ? https://enhanced.org/

I like the experiment. Of course now all marketed as helping humanity but still interesting how far people will go for a win. I however hope real sports will never become a free for all. I don't believe in humanity enough for it not to go wrong and bring down everyone in a vicious circle.

I had to laugh at “enhanced inclusive language”

 

[Shakes]

I had to laugh at “enhanced inclusive language”

They enhance everything

 

[Izzyeviel]

Banned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva claimed her positive doping test could have been caused by a strawberry dessert prepared by her grandfather on the same chopping board he used to crush his pills

Kamila Valieva claimed contaminated strawberry dessert behind positive test

Banned figure skater Kamila Valieva claimed her positive doping test may have been caused by a contaminated strawberry dessert.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sciatic]

Kamila Valieva claimed contaminated strawberry dessert behind positive test

Banned figure skater Kamila Valieva claimed her positive doping test may have been caused by a contaminated strawberry dessert.

www.bbc.co.uk

Good to see some variety in the doping excuses.

 

[search]

December is normally not a good time for strawberries anyway.

 

[Sciatic]

December is normally not a good time for strawberries anyway.

Ha!

 

[Rob5091]

Big bucks if you're "enhanced"!
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...er-james-magnussen-enhanced-games-drug-taking
“We will write James Magnussen a US$1m cheque for breaking the 50 metre freestyle world record at the Enhanced Games.
“The first enhanced athlete to publicly break Usain Bolt’s [100 metre] world record will also get at least US$1m.”

 

[BullsFan22]

Big bucks if you're "enhanced"!
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...er-james-magnussen-enhanced-games-drug-taking
“We will write James Magnussen a US$1m cheque for breaking the 50 metre freestyle world record at the Enhanced Games.
“The first enhanced athlete to publicly break Usain Bolt’s [100 metre] world record will also get at least US$1m.”

Bolt clearly wasn’t ’enhanced…’ 🤣

 

[Rob5091]

Bolt clearly wasn’t ’enhanced…’ 🤣

"Never tested positive!"

 

[Libertine Seguros]

“The first enhanced athlete to publicly break Usain Bolt’s [100 metre] world record will also get at least US$1m.”

Already done years ago.

 

[Rob5091]

Gatlin, "In 2001 he was banned from athletics for testing positive for amphetamines and then was kicked out of the sport again in 2006 for doping." - twice enhanced!

 

[Sciatic]

Gatlin, "In 2001 he was banned from athletics for testing positive for amphetamines and then was kicked out of the sport again in 2006 for doping." - twice enhanced!

I think we can safely assume it was many times more than than (if we count each different PED adding another level of enhancement)

 

[proffate]

Baseballer caught for Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone

Cubs' Peters handed season ban for positive test

Chicago Cubs right-hander Mathew Peters has been suspended for the 2024 season under the minor league drug program following a positive test for a performance-enhancing substance.

www.espn.co.uk

an oldie but a goodie. "CDMT was the key steroid administered to approximately ten thousand East German athletes as part of a secret doping program, known as State Plan Topic 14.25, often without their knowing the nature of the "vitamins" they were forced to take. The program remained in place from about 1968 until the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989"

Also gold:

Fifteen players were disciplined last year under the minor league program and Milwaukee Brewers right-hander J.C. Mejia was suspended 162 games under the major league program.

cheaters rarely prosper their way into the big leagues I guess

 

[Rob5091]

The old finishing bottle favourite, Tramadol, is also rampant in Rugby in the UK -
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68232449

Following an inquest into the death of young rugby league player Archie Bruce, the BBC has been told a powerful prescription-only painkiller involved in his death was the "go-to" drug for many players.
As a new Super League season gets ready to kick off, the BBC has been finding out just how deeply Tramadol had become part of the game around the time of the 20-year-old athlete's death in 2019.

 

[Rob5091]

Apparently getting all doped up, means you're a victim like blacks and gays ...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...removes-brain-barrier-in-quest-to-get-running

The founder of the Enhanceds is someone called Aron Ping D’Souza, American tech entrepreneur, personality-capitalist and one of those business people whose rhetorical style involves boasting about their own extreme, brutal, gamechanging honesty, even while spouting the most unbelievable horsesh*t.
‘Doping’ is a colonialist slur that reeks of symbolic and historic violence against both the Black and enhanced populations and needs to be removed from our vocabulary”.

Yes. This is real. What they’re saying is that being on drugs is pretty much the same as being black. They’re going with doped lives matter. They’re comparing the burdens of “the enhanced community” ie drugged athletes, with the struggle for civil rights, the legacy of slavery, with centuries of blood-soaked racial apartheid and its associated scars.

This is of course deeply cynical and cheap. But it is at least non-exclusive. Being on drugs is not just like being black. Being on drugs is also like being gay. “Think back 50 years ago, being a gay man was like being enhanced today. It’s stigmatised, it’s marginalised,” D’Souza has said, and true to this vision the Enhanced website carries a detailed section on the trials of “coming out” as enhanced to your family, friends and colleagues (who frankly don’t care, please put your singlet back on), with much talk of allies, support networks and being kind.

 

[Sciatic]

Apparently getting all doped up, means you're a victim like blacks and gays ...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...removes-brain-barrier-in-quest-to-get-running

Plus, he’s just late to the game with this project; there’s already an all-enhanced all the time competition: it’s called the NFL.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Plus, he’s just late to the game with this project; there’s already an all-enhanced all the time competition: it’s called the NFL.

And untested power lifting federations.

 

[awavey]

Juventus' Paul Pogba banned for four years for doping, is appealing, claims it was inadvertent etc etc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68436828

 

[Mayomaniac]

Juventus' Paul Pogba banned for four years for doping, is appealing, claims it was inadvertent etc etc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68436828

A 4 year ban in football is big news. I assume it will go down to 2 years once he appeals, but still.

 

[Red Rick]

A 4 year ban in football is big news. I assume it will go down to 2 years once he appeals, but still.

It's Pogba, so it's basically only like a 6 game ban for him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

It's Pogba, so it's basically only like a 6 game ban for him.

The guy used to be absurdly overhyped by Italian media when he was still managed by Raiola.

 

[BullsFan22]

Wonder what Graeme Souness has to say about all of this…