Dopers suck

[David Marshall]

https://flip.it/W5naHJ

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[madmarc]

6 minutes ago, David Marshall said:

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Haha - Set up a doping check gate at CTCT after the medal collection - I wonder how many riders will be bailing over the fences 😁

[jcza]

Lab no longer required because cycling is so much cleaner now. 

[HdB]

19 hours ago, David Marshall said:

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The event organisers would surely have the names of all the riders who entered, so "random tests" could be organised for the riders who dropped out?

[mecheng89]

22 hours ago, jcza said:

Lab no longer required because cycling is so much cleaner now. 

You forgot your comic sans.

[mecheng89]

Another one bites the dust.

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/decathlon-ag2r-la-mondiale-terminate-franck-bonnamours-contract

[Shebeen]

4 hours ago, mecheng89 said:

Another one bites the dust.

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/racing/news/decathlon-ag2r-la-mondiale-terminate-franck-bonnamours-contract

blood passport case, so complicated. 

Might look to use the arguments that were successful in this defense:

https://www.sportingnews.com/in/tennis/news/why-simona-halep-cleared-explaining-doping-controversy/4146a11c993536328bbb64b4

[Jewbacca]

So I see Amy Wakefield has received a 4 year ban for taking the illegal and off market phentermine....

[MarcoDeS]

17 minutes ago, Jewbacca said:

So I see Amy Wakefield has received a 4 year ban for taking the illegal and off market phentermine....

👀 hectic 

[Danger Dassie]

26 minutes ago, Jewbacca said:

So I see Amy Wakefield has received a 4 year ban for taking the illegal and off market phentermine....

Off market is not entirely correct, it’s found within a number of prescribed medications.
The actual hearing doc can be found here, unfortunately doubt most will bother to read it; https://drugfreesport.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Award-SAIDS-v-Amy-Wakefield_.pdf

[binxc]

The whole story is a bit odd. 

Phentermine is banned in competition but she states she was taking it out of competition due to weight gain as a result of a sterilisation. A normal sterilisation would not necessarily result in intractable weight gain unless they removed one's ovaries as well, which would not be standard at her age - but depending on the cause of her issues, they may very well have had to do that. She also had her urologist at her hearing to suggest that she had altered kidney function which may have contributed to her high urine levels and he then says that they need to ask a nephrologist about that, which is fair from his side but indicates poor preparation from her representation, as surely they should have anticipated that the urologist would give this answer, being a surgeon and not a physician. 

A more cohesive medicolegal team might have gotten her off but ultimately, she knew the risks of taking it. 

[babse]

Eish

[Jbr]

I don't understand how this works, if your medical condition requires you to take banned substances, and you know that they are banned, can't you file a case beforehand stating that you will be taking said substance for medical reasons and get a free pass ? Seems that would make sense rather than having to hide it and hope not to get caught and only then having to justify yourself

[binxc]

2 minutes ago, Jbr said:

I don't understand how this works, if your medical condition requires you to take banned substances, and you know that they are banned, can't you file a case beforehand stating that you will be taking said substance for medical reasons and get a free pass ? Seems that would make sense rather than having to hide it and hope not to get caught and only then having to justify yourself

You can apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption but reading the criteria, phentermine would not qualify: (from https://drugfreesport.org.za/tue/)

All of the four following criteria must be met (for more details, please refer to the WADA International Standard Therapeutic Use Exemptions 2021 (ISTUE), Article 4.2):

 

1. 1. The athlete has a diagnosed medical condition, which requires treatment using a prohibited substance or method;

 

1. 2. The therapeutic use of the substance will not, on the balance of probabilities, produce any additional enhancement of performance beyond what might be anticipated by a return to the athlete’s normal state of health;

 

1. 3. The prohibited substance or method is an indicated treatment for the medical condition, and there is no reasonable permitted therapeutic alternative;

 

1. 4. The necessity to use that substance or method is not the consequence of the prior use (without a TUE), of a substance or method which was prohibited at the time of use.

[reteid]

20 minutes ago, binxc said:

The whole story is a bit odd. 

Phentermine is banned in competition but she states she was taking it out of competition due to weight gain as a result of a sterilisation. A normal sterilisation would not necessarily result in intractable weight gain unless they removed one's ovaries as well, which would not be standard at her age - but depending on the cause of her issues, they may very well have had to do that. She also had her urologist at her hearing to suggest that she had altered kidney function which may have contributed to her high urine levels and he then says that they need to ask a nephrologist about that, which is fair from his side but indicates poor preparation from her representation, as surely they should have anticipated that the urologist would give this answer, being a surgeon and not a physician. 

A more cohesive medicolegal team might have gotten her off but ultimately, she knew the risks of taking it. 

I would have thought that her legal team would have consulted with her witnesses prior to the hearing and they should have known that he will not be an expert and that a nephrologist was needed in her defence.

[DieselnDust]

Is there another twist related to that lab….?

the method used for analysis requires GC/MS?