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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
Hopefully they'll lose pick 15. Surely there needs to be some public deterant, but I'm not going to put a brass razo on it though.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
if they lose 15 does that mean our pick 18 moves up one ?Comment
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But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
WADA have a lot of problems in their lap all of a sudden. Countries are starting to ask what happens to the money they pour into it and why there are still so many drug cheats around. WADA were supposed to fix the problem or at least make a dent on it.
WADA are taking us all for fools.They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
I don't think that's the case, I'd say WADA and it's local affiliates are all very much on the same page. There's only so many cases WADA can escalate to an independent environment. Resourcing and funding just doesn't allow it to prosecute every case its local affiliates would like, so it has to prioritize the cases that hold the most value from a ROI perspective. 34 players from one club in a systemic doping program yes, 1 player avoiding tests because he suspects he's taken something illegal no. It's just the economics of things.
When local sporting competitions have a clear cut strategy of brand protection at all costs, and have little regard for the perception of integrity, a local body such as ASADA is always going to be up against it. They have to either catch the player red handed with a positive test so the league can't cover it up, or uncover something large enough to warrant WADA taking it to a proper hearing, otherwise organisation like the AFEL will go to extremes to clear their player or at the minimum negotiate heavily reduced sentences like we see in this case.
It's far from ideal, but it's infinitely better than the local sporting competitions controlling it themselves, which would see large scale doping being the norm with the organisation itself helping to keep it all under the rug to protect its brand.[COLOR="#FF0000"][B]Western Bulldogs:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR="#0000CD"][B]We exist to win premierships[/B][/COLOR]Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
Imagine the testing standards of a competition like the NFL where there's no independent body overseeing it. A player's urine sample could be fluorescent green and the tester would drop it in the sink and go oops but don't worry it looked clean to me. Fortunately for the league no one outside their control will ever be involved in the process. Athletes just need to avoid getting caught out by a paper trail that makes its way to the public like the shambles that was BALCO.[COLOR="#FF0000"][B]Western Bulldogs:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR="#0000CD"][B]We exist to win premierships[/B][/COLOR]Comment
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