If they are using the WADA prohibited list, and what the club says about the test being from out-of-competition is correct, the substance shouldn't be cocaine or cannabis, as those only are prohibited in competition. Don't know about ecstasy.
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neineinei said:FA has their own take on it:
"The presence of a Social Drug in a Participant’s Sample or the Use/Attempted Use of a Social Drug by a Participant is an Anti-Doping Rule Violation both In Competition and Out of Competition"
http://www.thefa.com/~/media/files/thefaportal/governance-docs/rules-of-the-association/2014-15/027_anti-doping.ashx
So here the rules are stricter for FA footballers than for Boonen.
fenns said:Lots of mock outrage in the UK media about the Livermore cocaine case. Do they not know their big money earners are all doped to the eyeballs?
yeah, the extradition treaty is probably the only good thing you can say about Switserland in this context. Otherwise they're just happy to let these sports bodies do whatever the **** they want on Swiss soil, as long as it stimulates the economy. I get a sense this investigation has been a purely American initiative.neineinei said:“We’re struck by just how long this went on for and how it touched nearly every part of what FIFA did,” said a law enforcement official. “It just seemed to permeate every element of the federation and was just their way of doing business. It seems like this corruption was institutionalized.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/s...rruption-charges-blatter-isnt-among-them.html
Blatter will of course be re-elected on Friday. Maybe next time they will have to have their meeting in a country without an extradition treaty with the US.
SeriousSam said:Looks like they've got nothing to get Blatter, which means he must be cleans and the least corrupt official in this new era of clean Fifa.
Those Fifa stooges must regret not giving the US the World Cup, which would have probably stopped this investigation.
SeriousSam said:Looks like they've got nothing to get Blatter, which means he must be cleans and the least corrupt official in this new era of clean Fifa.
Those Fifa stooges must regret not giving the US the World Cup, which would have probably stopped this investigation.
Chipist said:Matheus collapsed on the pitch. Nothing to see here either, move along.....
Lost to TwoBacca goals.
https://twitter.com/jensweinreich/status/604227875215183872having a good day: hab geheult beim Lästern über d #FIFA, d AIPS-Präsident schimpfte mich Hurensohn, ein Typ hat mich mit Kaffee bekleckert
Under his reading of the Sportvertising contract, Blazer had CONCACAF pick up not only his work expenses but many personal ones as well. Blazer has lived in three different apartments in the Trump Tower, most recently a 2,000-square-foot unit on the 49th floor with a monthly rent of $18,000, much of which CONCACAF covered. In 2011 alone, he received $259,000 in “personal residence expenses” from the confederation, tax filings show. CONCACAF also bought, for Blazer’s personal use, a $48,500 Hummer SUV, which some employees said he chose because of his considerable size. CONCACAF paid more than $600 a month for parking, as well as auto insurance for Blazer and his girlfriend...CONCACAF’s share of the rent might have been justified because Blazer often used his apartment as a second office — working “in his underwear, with the lights off,” recalled Brennan.
According to former CONCACAF employees, most of the confederation’s operating expenses were charged to an American Express account that Blazer controlled. Confederation records show that between 2004 and 2011, CONCACAF paid nearly $30 million on that AmEx account, of which $3 million were Blazer’s personal expenses. At the end of each year, Blazer would reckon his accounts and deduct any of those costs from his side of the ledger. The AmEx points, however, redounded to Blazer, and he at times used them for companions to accompany him when he traveled first class on CONCACAF’s dime.
D-Queued said:In what shouldn't come as much of a surprise:
Blatter re-elected president
IOW, the world of soccer/football loves its business as usual. 'How else can we be assured that we will have a chance at hosting the World Cup in our country if we cannot pay someone for it? We understand that these things need money. Damn if the next thing you are going to want to get rid of is something even more essential like doping.'
Dave.
"FIFA needs a profound overhaul," Blatter said in French, according to FIFA's translation. "While I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA, I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football -- the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we all do at FIFA.
"Therefore, I have decided to lay down my mandate [as president] at an extraordinary elective congress. I will continue to exercise my functions as FIFA president until that election."