Tennis

[blackcat]

Keeping with the match fixing scandal, anyone remember this gem from Bernard Tomic?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/sports/tennis/a-record-for-bernard-tomic-but-one-to-quickly-forget.html?_r=0

Tomic is just weakwilled.

So I would bet on the default being Bernie tanks a game, but not cos of the bookies.

The more surprising and true bookie corruption and meta tanking, would be, if Bernie leaves it ALL OUT ON THE COURT and busts a gut for the win. He never leaves his corpse on court /alliterationz

 

[Benotti69]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/09/revealed-tennis-umpires-secretly-banned-gambling-scam

tennis umpires secretly banned over gambling scam

 

[arcus]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/09/revealed-tennis-umpires-secretly-banned-gambling-scam

tennis umpires secretly banned over gambling scam

This looks terrible for the ITF, IMO. Why not make this public?

..and some people don't believe they would ever stoop to using silent bans

 

[ppanther92]

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If it wasn't for Djokovic on the men's side, Federer would STILL be winning slams. This is the dude I want caught the most because his continued arrogance is unreal.

I don't know making a point with Djokovic, aside from Nadal the probably most obvious doper, comes across a bit odd.

 

[wansteadimp]

When is a silent ban not a silent ban? When you carry on umpiring anyway!

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...etting-offences-ban-denis-pitner-usta-shocked

 

[PEDerer]

Re: Re:

If it wasn't for Djokovic on the men's side, Federer would STILL be winning slams. This is the dude I want caught the most because his continued arrogance is unreal.

I don't know making a point with Djokovic, aside from Nadal the probably most obvious doper, comes across a bit odd.

I mean isnt that the point? That the only person consistently stopping a geriatric from Switzerland from winning slams is an obvious doper? Nadal is clear cut classic doping, but Federer is just something else. He is human SCUM.

 

[BullsFan22]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35664550

 

[snccdcno]

Sharapova failed a test for Meldonium at the Australian Open.

 

[Miburo]

finallyyyyyyyyyy

 

[doolols]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lfHwmkGNA&feature=youtu.be

 

[Catwhoorg]

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Sharapova failed a test for Meldonium at the Australian Open.

I do wonder how many across all sports are going to be popped this year for this particular drug.

 

[Cloxxki]

If I should guess, I'd say she's being thrown under the bus, being Russian. It's the hip thing in sports administration.
Serena would have a Geigerteller get real loud. Actual testing would bring a very predictble result.

 

[wansteadimp]

Re: Re:

Sharapova failed a test for Meldonium at the Australian Open.

I do wonder how many across all sports are going to be popped this year for this particular drug.

Details of bans so far this year half way down the page.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7071213

Sky Sports - "She's been honest", "I don't think she has been cheating", "She's just been lazy", "it won't tarnish her image".

Not a hint of skepticism, but what would you expect?

 

[luckyboy]

It was announced that a Russian ice dancer has failed a test for this today too.

It's crazy that a player can announce this positive test and not the governing body, but I guess it is tennis after all.

 

[Jacques (7 ch)]

http://roidvisor.com/performance-enhancing-drugs-used-by-elite-athletes-that-are-surprisingly-legal/


Interesting read.

 

[gooner]

Re: Re:

Sharapova failed a test for Meldonium at the Australian Open.

I do wonder how many across all sports are going to be popped this year for this particular drug.

Yeah, it's already happening as it is outside of this one.

 

[arcus]

This an anti-ischaemic agent being developed for patients with angina. It's not FDA approved. It is approved in Georgia (the country, not the state), Latvia and Russia. I would be frankly shocked if Sharapova is getting her health care outside of the US (where she is based). I cannot think of a valid medical reason why a healthy athlete would take, this apart from doping. Not buying the diabetes excuse. The drug increases exercise tolerance, which is why it is prohibited. It may also increase concentration.

She claims to have been using it for 10 years and didn't realize it was just placed on the banned list (need to fact-check that), but surely she would have declared it as a prescribed medicine on her doping control forms over time, and the ITF can clarify this.

Regardless, this is ennis' first big pop for years, though I suspect the "deny and obfuscate" machine will crank-up STAT.

Worth remembering that she is the world highest paid female athete

Edit: Meldonium was added to WADA's prohibited list in 2016.

 

[gooner]

Re:

This an anti-ischaemic agent being developed for patients with angina. It's not FDA approved. It is approved in Georgia (the country, not the state), Latvia and Russia. I would be frankly shocked if Sharapova is getting her health care outside of the US (where she is based). I cannot think of a valid medical reason for a healthy athlete would take this apart from doping. The drug increases exercise tolerance, which is why it is prohibited.

She claims to have been using it for 10 years and didn't realize it was just placed on the banned list (need to fact-check that), but surely she would have declared it as a prescribed medicine on her doping control forms over time, and the ITF can clarify this.

Regardless, this is ennis' first big pop for years, though I suspect the "deny and obfuscate" machine will crank-up STAT.

Worth remembering that she is the world highest paid female athete

Just today.

MOSCOW (AP) — Former European ice dancing champion Ekaterina Bobrova told Russian media on Monday she failed a doping test, ruling her and her partner Dmitry Soloviev out of the world championships in Boston this month.

Bobrova told Russian agency R-Sport that she tested positive for the heart medication meldonium, which is banned in sport, after finishing third at the European Championships in January.

Bobrova and Soloviev were Olympic gold medalists in the team event in 2014 and won the European title in 2013.

Bobrova said her failed test was "a big shock for all of us" because she had been careful to avoid products containing banned substances and had been specifically warned about meldonium, which became illegal on Jan. 1.

We always are very strict in tracking what we eat and the medicine we take. At the moment, we're trying hard together with the federation to get to the bottom of this situation."

Skating's world governing body, the ISU, refused to confirm or deny whether Bobrova was suspended, citing medical confidentiality.

Meldonium was used as a popular sports supplement in former Soviet Union countries. Since it was banned, two Ukrainians in the winter sport of biathlon have also tested positive.

http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/a1371b6e5c614b56906436c2c20bda18/top-russian-ice-dancer-bobrova-fails-doping-test-report

 

[sniper]

any predictions on whether/how long she'll be banned?

 

[Poursuivant]

Re:

any predictions on whether/how long she'll be banned?

six months

 

[gooner]

Re: Re:

any predictions on whether/how long she'll be banned?

six months

Will have to pay back the prize money from the Australian Open.

 

[Benotti69]

Sports people, so unhealthy...............

 

[Rollthedice]

Good stuff this meldonium. First heard about it with Vorganov Katusha. Sharapova didn't get the memo, it's banned starting this year. She daid she took it for 10 years, basically doped all her career.

 

[Benotti69]

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Good stuff this meldonium. First heard about it with Vorganov Katusha. Sharapova didn't get the memo, it's banned starting this year. She daid she took it for 10 years, basically doped all her career.

There was a WADA notification last september.

But again it proves that dopers are 10 years ahead still.

The ADA are not interested. PR.

 

[Red Rick]

At least it came out. Ohwell. What does it do anyway?