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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40854182 Errani's mother had been using the drug as part of her treatment for breast cancer and had left pills on a kitchen worktop where food was prepared. A tribunal panel accepted the player probably ingested the substance through accidental food...

Team Sky: The Smiths - That joke isn't Funny anymore Michele Ferrari: Morrissey - Interesting Drug Dave Brailsford: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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Let's hope this puts the cat among the pigeons just as the Fancy Bears hacked TUE data did in cycling. At least it gives something else for the DCMS select committee to get their teeth into.

The point further down the article, about this becoming a public health issue, is surely what will eventually be the "giveaway" that a generation of pro sportspeople were doping. In 5/10 years time, when hundreds of retired former sports pros are suffering from health issues despite being in the...

Also funny how the second highest group who answered "agree" to "PEDs are easily available amongst sports pros" was..... amateur Tennis players! But but! There's no PEDs in pro Tennis so how can this be?! Must just be those naughty amateurs ruining the pros' good name.

Funny how nearly 50% of amateurs think PEDs are "easy to get hold of" yet (in relative terms) so few elite sportspeople ever test positive.....

Re: Presume she was talking metaphorically. You'd hope so anyway.

Re: Re: If they did refuse, is there a process by which USADA could appeal to anyone? E.g. Court of Arbitration in Sport?

Re: Re: That was in the late 80s early 90s, not post-Kelly.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/03/leaked-usada-report-suggests-fresh-claims-alberto-salazar-mo-farah latest news from the leaked USADA report.

The last 7 years in the UK have been a time of austerity, attempts at greater cost control in use of taxpayer funds etc. Bearing that in mind, it'd be interesting to find out if the taxpayer funded medicines provided to BC were used to the benefit of non-British riders. Might the DCMS select...

Sport got seriously professionalised but it's organisation didn't. This is the crux of almost all sporting scandals / corruption. "The game" (whether it be soccer, rugby, athletics etc) is still run in many cases by Will Carling's "57 old farts". But the money / what's at stake has changed out...

Re: Arguably he has unembedded himself, with those comments. Surely you can't think he can say that and then go back to bigging Team Sky up?

Re: Remarkable that when this leak was in the media a year ago, several on here spotted this quote straight away. Yet to my knowledge not a single journalist from a mainstream media organisation has dug further, preferring to keep the focus on the backhander / bribe element of the story.