Avenger
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Stigma and social backlash. Somebody has to think of the children right?
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"The time" is 4 games. You were the one griping that doing "the time" wasn't enough.
And I stand by it.
He did knowlingly take a prohibited substance. He knew what he was getting into.
Still think 4 games is light.
25% of the season is light? One quarter of his pay for the year? Why not just kick them out of the league and cut off their arms? You make a lot assumptions in your post.
And I stand by it.
He did knowlingly take a prohibited substance. He knew what he was getting into.
Still think 4 games is light.
You think 25% of one's salary isn't enough of a punishment for taking a sinus medication. I think that's insane.
There are tonnes of examples where players in all fields of sports got a lot worse.
Soccer players losing 6 months for dietry suppelment.
soccer player losing 8 months for missing one test.
Cyclist losing 1 TDF and 1 season for 1/500th of a performance enhancing amount of glenbuterol in his system ( I don't buy his excuse btw either in that he got it from a contaminated piece of meat.)
now, if you are saying football is a different story and should not be treated the same as other sports we've got a conversation and definately another thread.
but if you are looking at current WADA guidelines. The punishments for footballers and Baseball player is somewhat soft.
Granted. Neither sport is IOC controlled so the guidelines come from the sports themselves.
That is where I am coming from.
Having a bunch of people/leagues around you doing really stupid things is not justification for you doing really stupid things.
Or, to put it in the manner so many of us remember from our childhood, if all the other leagues were jumping off a cliff (and many are), would the NFL?
Please dude. This ain't no thang. They'll just tell him to tighten up his 'training schedule', if you know what I mean. PEDs are rampant and accepted in the NFL. It's wink-wink, hush-hush nowadays, but it's present everywhere.
People look at McGwire and Bonds and say it's obvious they were roiding, well half the NFL players make McGwire and Bonds look like pop warner players. You know what I'm saying?
You think its stupid to have a zero tolerence policy on Drug use in sports.
I strongly disagree.
A zero tolerance policy is stupid for pretty much anything. Any adult who hasn't figured that out shouldn't be allowed to make decisions above "Which shirt should I wear today?".
But zero tolerance isn't what you were griping about. You were griping that the mutually agreed upon punishment wasn't severe enough, even though it's a catch-all that makes someone who takes a sinus medication as "guilty" as someone who's caught in the act of shooting up steroids
Opposed to 2 or 4 years under WADA rules? Comparatively, that suspension is a slap on the wrist by international sporting standards.25% of the season is light? One quarter of his pay for the year? Why not just kick them out of the league and cut off their arms? You make a lot assumptions in your post.
...The reasons for having medications on the banned list is that a lot of them contain agents that mask the affects of other drug use...
Now there is nothing in this case to suggest thats what happened, just saying like.
Actually, yes. When a player is suspended, he does not count against the roster.
You think its stupid to have a zero tolerence policy on Drug use in sports.
I strongly disagree.