Masha's A Blood Doper; What a Disgrace; Asterisks on Everything

obviously she took it for improvement but technically she wasn't cheating for 10 years. I am sure most take "supplements" or do things to gain advantage.

Her diabetes excuse was disgusting to me tho.

Djokodal Fan said:
Yes, until WADA found out that cheaters like Masha were using it to get unfair advantage over others. Ban is the word that should be stamped on her face of the cheater.
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I wonder if all these people that use the excuse "it wasn't illegal til this year so she isn't really a cheat" also excuse the Patriots for spygate since the situations are exactly the same...

Somehow I doubt it :rolleyes:
 
The Patriots, I presume, are a football team and football doesn't allow WADA, which is a good thing from the standpoint of liberty, but it also means the sport is rife with drugs.

I take it you watch it nevertheless?
 
Djokodal Fan said:
Small correction. She was legally cheating since it was not in the banned drugs list. So yes, she was using it to enhance oxygen intake or indirectly her endurance to have a competitive edge over her peers.
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"Legally cheating" sounds like an oxymoron. It's either banned, or it isn't. Shouldn't a player be able to use any substance that is not expressly prohibited?
 
insideguy said:
She is done. My feeling is she has been warned before. She ignored it and didnt think they would pull the trigger. They said ok call our bluff. She did and they pulled the trigger
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I suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that she's nearly 29 and on the decline. Would they have been so quick to pull the trigger on her when she was closer to her peak and still winning slams and other big tournaments? Hmm.......
 
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winstonplum said:
This was the one everyone was waiting for. Eventually the other shoe was going to drop and one of the top pros was going to be exposed. This is it. Cheating blood doper. The sad thing is that she would have gotten away with ten years of being a blood doper if she had just gotten it out of her system by January.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/s...=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/s...=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/s...=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

Everything you need to know if right there. I feel sorry for Maria fans. You're favorite player is a blood-doping cheat. I understand the need for her fellow players to be nice to the person, Maria Sharapova. Yeah, she's a human. Nothing bad should happen to her. Let her go on with her life. But in the professional realm, we all now know she's a stone-cold blood-doping cheat. She was importing an illegal drug into the US for performance enhancing qualities. Look at the list of other top athletes that are getting busted on the same drug.

There's a lot a lot of *****-footing going on in the American press, and yeah, I get it, it's uncomfortable, she's human, it doesn't feel good to see someone exposed as a fraud. But anything less than a year ban from the WTA and ITF would be absolutely disgraceful.
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Yeah, she's the ONLY one that uses PEDs. Open your eyes and just think about what you're seeing in tennis.
 
Djokodal Fan said:
Whatever Berdych says is very appropriate here:
Tomas Berdych: "If you are not taking anything, then you don't have to look at the list, right? So if I'm supposed to take any medicine, whatever it is, and it's new and that I haven't taken in the past, the No. 1 thing I'm going to do is check it 10 times, all the different sources, doctors, this, that, everywhere I can, before I start using. And then I will find out what's new with WADA and the list."

Why try to circumvent the system to begin with? Be clean. 10 years of preventive diabetes...my A $ $
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For once I am amazed by Thomas
 
Djokodal Fan said:
Small correction. She was legally cheating since it was not in the banned drugs list. So yes, she was using it to enhance oxygen intake or indirectly her endurance to have a competitive edge over her peers. Should be handed a ban for 4 years. Imagine about other athletes who have gone down playing the right way and never winning slams.

Or in other words imagine her opponents who could not sustain 3 sets of Grinding tennis that she has been doing and walking away to winner's podium or GS finals or winning Grandslams itself. What a disgrace!!
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How can a person be "legally cheating"?" :confused:
 
Djokovic2011 said:
How can a person be "legally cheating"?" :confused:
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Meldonium the drug Maria took was legal for the past 10 years that she took, it only became illegitimate in January 1st. Masha never kept up with the date. It's not fair to have a dream career and still cheat, truly a disgrace, no?
 
winstonplum said:
Awesome! So as long as you don't win it doesn't matter that you're a blood-doper.
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Are you a freelance "reporter" for The National Enquirer or for other half-truth tabloids? Your accusation of blood-doping is way off the mark. Tabloid journalism rears its ugly head yet again. Have not seen any credible source that refers to Maria's use of Mildronate as blood-doping. Seems that your take on the definition of blood-doping is seriously flawed.

http://lastwordonsports.com/2016/03/10/ped/

Have you actually read the links that you provided in the OP? Note that 1 of your NY Times links indicates that “The evidence around whether it is a performance-enhancing drug is quite thin”. Other sources have suggested that coffee (or caffeine) might have greater performance-enhancing properties than Meldonium.
 
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cc0509 said:
If you think Sharapova is an isolated case, you need your head examined...You could make a case for Nadal, Djokovic, Federer,Serena,etc. as they all have suspicious things about them where you could easily conclude that they dope.
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How true. No matter how everyone wants to believe the opposite about their favorite player, it's possible that they all use PEDs, and if those drugs end up on the banned list, they move on to those that aren't. Perhaps this is why they've never been caught, as there is nothing to catch if the drugs aren't banned.
 
Djokovic2011 said:
But how is it unfair if it's legal? That's the part I've been trying to get my head around all week.
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To put it in another way, legalisation means everyone will have to take PEDs in order to complete fairly because those who don't will be in a disadvantage, which is what we never wanted our sport to be associated in the beginning. How its defined legal or illegal is another topic, which I strongly believe violates the spirit of sportsmanship.
 
What WADA does is decide bureaucratically what is legal and what is illegal, permitted and prohibited in actual fact.

What people do is decide morally what is cheating and what is not.

So there is no legal cheating. We have to decide morally whether what Sharapova did for ten years is cheating or not.

After January, it's illegal whatever we think morally.

For what it's worth, I think she took the drug to enhance performance but I don't think the drug is such that morally she gained an unfair advantage.

She won't be saying that, of course.

Djokovic2011 said:
How can a person be "legally cheating"?" :confused:
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MichaelNadal said:
Nadal said Sharapova deserves to be punished as an example to others.

"It is difficult to imagine that something like this can happen. But mistakes happen," he said. "She should be punished.

"I want to believe it is a mistake for Maria. She didn't want to do it. But obviously it is negligence. She must pay for it."
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Lol the hypocrite.
 
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it would seem that Russian doping authorities are claiming for Spain's top spot as worst!
 
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