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    They're all on drugs.

    Sam wrote: it rarely rolls out the red carpet when forced to re-award a medal.
    As Valerie Adams noted, after the Woman who 'beat' her on the day of the 2012 Olympic Shot-Put was subsequently disqualified, even with the gold medal she was still being somewhat cheated. She had been denied the moment in the stadium at the top of the podium with her national anthem playing.

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      They're all on drugs.

      I've read stories of the new medals being "presented" by an IOC flunky in a McDonalds.

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        New World Record

        Italian Giuseppe Ippolito has smashed the record for the number of prohibited substances detected in a single sample by returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for 14 different substances.

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          Do western people who still watch track and field choose to suspend disbelief or just accept that they are watching drug-influenced events?

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            Ursus - they have since revised the article as another Italian has Ippolito comfortably beaten with 20 prohibited substances.

            Go big or go home.

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              Almost a shame this was cocaine rather than heroin, but let's go with Rangi Chase The Dragon for the link anyway.

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                I thought line outs were only in rugby union?

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                  Fancy Bears leak 2010 World Cup TUEs and other doping data.

                  Ex-Premier League stars Carlos Tevez, Dirk Kuyt and Gabriel Heinze have been named by hackers Fancy Bears as three footballers allowed to use banned medicines during the 2010 World Cup.

                  The trio were among 25 players given Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs) during the tournament in South Africa.

                  The Russian group also claims 160 players failed drugs tests in 2015 in the latest leaked documents.

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                    I'm not sure if this was discussed at the time: revelations made in 2015 about Allan Wells. Sources seem solid albeit mainly anonymous:

                    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32883944

                    Moscow 1980 as a whole:

                    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk...ose-19-6179606

                    I can find any updates on the story since 2015, however.

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                      Wells declined an interview with the BBC, but in a letter his lawyer said: "Allan Wells enjoys the highest of reputations … he has never failed a drug test [and] was subjected to the most rigorous and random drug testing regime applied to any athlete at that time."
                      Very Armstrong-esque.

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                        Originally posted by Vicarious Thrillseeker View Post
                        Very Armstrong-esque.
                        Wells physique was a dead giveaway.
                        I remember some old boys in the gym I used to go to around 25 years ago telling me a famous British decathlete was on PEDs.

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                          Not, not... good old Daley? Jesus, every old school sporting “icon” younger than Bobby Charlton will end up suspected of some drugs or hideousness crime before we know it.

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                            It'll probably turn out next that wor Bobby had amphetamines coming out of his eyeballs, an' all.

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                              Wolves were on horse tranquilisers or similar back in the 1950s, weren't they? Back when Major Frank Buckley was their manager. That predates Charlton.

                              Oh, and doping to remain not illegal in Britain. That came out today.

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                                Denis Law, Purple Hearts for breakfast. Bennos kept Slim Jim Baxter slim. Hughie Gallagher, coal gas siphoned through milk.

                                No more heroes anymore.

                                EDIT: not a shred of evidence for the above.

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                                  Hurray! Sport is far too important for the National Honour of Ruritania/Maritime Uzbekistan to have its go ahead Sports Scientists and Proud athletes to be subject to petty and spiteful criminal sanctions.
                                  Last edited by Lang Spoon; 24-10-2017, 21:50.

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                                    Originally posted by Janik View Post
                                    Wolves were on horse tranquilisers or similar back in the 1950s, weren't they? Back when Major Frank Buckley was their manager. That predates Charlton.

                                    Oh, and doping to remain not illegal in Britain. That came out today.
                                    Monkey glands I think

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                                      For reals? That’s some Fear and Loathing style doping for post-war West Midlands.

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                                        Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
                                        Hughie Gallagher, coal gas siphoned through milk.
                                        I googled that just in case there was something in it.

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                                          Lots more to come from the FSB in the coming days, one suspects...

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                                            Considering this was the event where the worst of their behaviour took place, this should have been a no brainer from the start.
                                            Last edited by Sean of the Shed; 05-12-2017, 19:34.

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                                              The lack of any contrition by the Russians should make them pariahs for a long time.

                                              Holding a World Cup in Russia feels more and more wrong.

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                                                Especially now that the leader of the Organizing Committee has been banned for life by the IOC

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                                                  And Mo Farah wins SPOTY.

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                                                    Rather Farah than Froome or Hamilton TBH. His sport is more globally accessible, for example, and a Muslim winner will upset the Kippers. Joshua a victim of boxing being on Sky, or of the sport's bad reputation?

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