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Chris Froome tests positive for Salbutamol
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But rules are black and white
He broke the rules...whether it was deliberate or by accident is neither here nor there ....
All that matters is he was above the legal threshold (twofold above it) and unless he can prove it was not by design then there will be a ban
So balck and white it kinda is
Everything else including comparisons to other cheats is immaterial
If rules are so black and white why isn't he suspended
Personally think he's been juiced for years but there you go. Thinking 999 is fine and 1000 bad and that there is a massive difference between the 2 is, let me be polite, naive.
The present system doesn't work and lab based testing needs to be part rather than all the system.
At one end of the Spectrum there are completely clean athletes who don't even push the limits of permitted techniques and at the other end the likes of Rumsas who doped and probably encouraged his kids to dope. In between (and possibly even at those extremes) its shades of grey.0 -
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If rules are so black and white why isn't he suspended
Personally think he's been juiced for years but there you go. Thinking 999 is fine and 1000 bad and that there is a massive difference between the 2 is, let me be polite, naive.
The present system doesn't work and lab based testing needs to be part rather than all the system.
At one end of the Spectrum there are completely clean athletes who don't even push the limits of permitted techniques and at the other end the likes of Rumsas who doped and probably encouraged his kids to dope. In between (and possibly even at those extremes) its shades of grey.
I would disagree, I would say that lab based testing needs to be the be all and end all. I tested animals for years, if an animal failed a test or it was unusual, all the crying and poor me from the farmer in the world didn't change anything.
A positive is a positive, the lines are drawn, cross them, your done.
The only issue with anti doping at the minute is the lack of testing, no different than the road traffic act, the only issue is enforcement. Targeting single athletes at a race or a game is idiotic. If an anti doping agent turns up at a race, every rider who signed on that day should be tested. If they turn up at a GAA game, every player who is on the tea sheets and so on.
All the current single athlete targeting system tells us is that they don't want to catch alot of people in certain sports.0 -
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Well they did actually catch LA but the test was swept under the rug. The issue here is the sports leaders being involved at all.
There should be no out, the limit was high as it was. Anyone who takes that amount to race is not really fit to ride. If the lab is accreditated and the sample shows the same result when retested in another lab, job done.
It should all be done by an independent testing company, who are independently accredited to ISO and whatever the INAB equivalent in their country is.
Samples should be 100% anonymised with a. Third party having the only way to identify. The lab identifies the positives, notifies third party (not the sports body or even WADA at this point) who contacts the athlete directly and asks do they want their B sample checked. A guilty plea gets the 4 years, 2 years if under 21. A B sample test positive gets a 10year ban.
CAS are a joke, letting someone off because they have a competition in a year or two is BS. There should be no arbitration. If a sport wants to advertise as clean, those are the rules, if they don't then just f@ck off and accept that some of your competitors are doping, have no testing and no punishment.
Don't disagree with any of that !
TUE system not just open to abuse but seems designed to legitimise it.
To me intelligence and whistle-blowers should be used far more often.
Testing misses far too much.
Also new meds should be banned by default until approved !
The should be a see list of permitted meds for specified conditions, none of this molodium nonsense where was permitted for years for dubious reasons.
That said quite proud of my analogy between Froome and Schrodingers cat
https://twitter.com/ConorTMcGrane/status/9575749425010974730 -
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