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Re: Interesting........ The positive was actually from an in-competition test (which Victor Conte famously described as an IQ test for those who fail them!) That said,Beatriz Haddad Maia is not included in the ITF's current international registered testing pool (so does not have to report...

How can Serena Williams claim not to understand why the most successful, exceptional performers in any sport are targeted with increased testing? And making it about "discrimination"? Ridiculous.

Re: You can think of silent bans in 2 ways. 1] Non-announcement while case is pending: Athlete has an AAF and fights with their IF to establish innocence vs. guilt till tribunal concluded. This takes time. I can see a case for keeping this kept private in the (however unlikely) event that...

This is the reasoned decision in the Bellucci case. http://www.itftennis.com/media/277960/277960.pdf Essentially, he blamed contaminated prescription compounded vitamin pills for his AAF. To establish his 'innocence', he had vitamin pills (which he hadn't admitted taking on his doping control...

Re: Re: I did read every word of the transcript before posting. I will say I felt like giving up when I got to the part where Errani's team provide "evidence that the aromatase-inhibitor pill dissolves in tortellini meat mixtures at room temperature" :rolleyes:. This 'evidence' was, in...

"My mothers chemo fell into my tortellini"........ I thought nothing would top "I absorbed my twin in the womb", but this one comes close. Reading the ITF document made me face-palm. Please tell me WADA will challenge this. Of note, this is (to my knowledge) the first tennis doping...

Re: Jesus wept........... :rolleyes: There's no evidence that that Letrozole would enhance the performance of an elite tennis player, because it's never been studied in that context, JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER SUBSTANCES ON THE PROHIBITED LIST. Lack of evidence is not proof of lack of efficacy.

Re: Re: The ITF don't announce AAFs and provisional suspensions in advance of a tribunal confirming that an athlete was guilty of an ADRV. This is actually C/W the WADA code. The justification is that an athlete shouldn't be convicted in public before they have a chance to defend themselves...

The problem with the concept of a silent ban is that it would require WADA complicity. WADA know when athletes have an AAF (albeit anonymously when the sample is first analyzed), and have powers of oversight in relation to how that AAF is handled by the sports regulatory body. If Djokovic had...

I thought it was compelling. I didn't expect new revelations. That said, the high-profile nature of this documentary's means it can reach audiences who aren't as doping-savvy as most clinic posters. It's a shame that similar exposés don't exist to condemn all the other doping athletes...

Re: Re: How was he even tested? Did he enter another futures event stoned? Regardless, what an utter waste of time and money to make this an ADRV, when the big fish are probably drowning in undetectable PEDs..

Tennis is really getting serious about doping! :razz: The IFT just endorsed a ban placed by the French NADO on "titan of the game" Alexandre Nicolau ...... Alexandre (age 34) played one match on the pro tour back in 2010, where he lost in straight sets in the qualifying round of a futures...

Re: IIRC, McEnroe did talk about using cocaine when he was active on the tour. I have a dim recollection of his mentioning a night out with VG, and feeling so fatigued the next morning that he used cocaine to 'get-up" for an early round match at Wimbledon.

Re: It's hilarious that the journalist who wrote that article is named Stewart Miller :lol:

Working through this document, and it's depressing reading.... The corporate adjacency is so concerning :mad: :lol: page 104...... Salazar was himself apparently refused a TUE for hGH in 1995 based on lack of evidence of a pituitry-gonadal failure" :surprised: and from salazar in 2011...