cockneyDjoker
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Hope she gets hit with a 2 year ban.
I'm sure she can find plenty of doctors in Russia that will write any bull she wants for the sake of Russian sport ethics reputation (cough, cough)Which doctor is she referring to anyway? She lives in the US, that medication isn't approved in the US. So her doctor lives in Russia or what? That's a bit weird isn't it? I think she needs to just cool it before she makes things worse for herself.
She may become a person of interest to DHS soon.![]()
Er, are u the mafia? That almost sounds like a threatThis isnt going to end well for wada or the wta.
SO more excuses + a cheap low blow/anonymous dig
Sharapova the least liked WTA player among her peers being her usual charming self and not about to gain friends anytime soon...
The reality is that if a player accepts a provisional suspension and the hearing exonerates them, then he or she may have suffered what appears to be a silent ban.
But there is no silent ban. The player is guilty of nothing until there is a hearing.
They are given the opportunity to accept a suspension immediately while preparing for their hearing so any penalty starts from that date.
If Nadal or anyone else is injured there is the outside possibiliy that it is covering up the fact they took a provisional suspension.
But if the hearing exonerates them, then they just return as if the injury is over.
And the public is none the wiser about what happened.
Nothing has ever leaked about this ever having happened, to my perhaps outdated knowledge, but it's a possibility under the rules.
This rule exists so the player's reputation is not ruined by a positive control which is later set aside at a hearing.
As quoted above:
Roselyne Bachelot, former French minister of the health and sport, Interviewed by Grand8 program yesterday, spoke about doping in tennis. According to her, silent ban is a very widespread method.
'They do not reveal nor positive controls nor sanctions given in tennis, but curiously it becomes known that a men's or women's tennis player who gets injured stays far away of the courts for months' - Bachelot said.
Bachelot criticized very much Nadal: "We know that Rafael Nadal's famous injury, that stopped him for seven months, is certainly due to a positive drug test. When you see that a player stays away for months is because he is positive. Not every time, but very often".
Are you saying that injury (innocent until proven) timeouts exist? I am surprised that I did not come across these until now. Pretending to be injured pending drug charge investigation is kinda cover up. Don't you think so? First of all, WADA should not incriminate a player without proper investigation and if they charge a player then there should be no cover up even if the player can go through appeals process.
You got all that completely wrong:
There is a positive drug test and that equals a hearing.
Until a hearing determines what that test means, you are free to keep playing.
You may choose to accept provisional suspension to prepare for the hearing and so that any penalty is served from the earliest possible date.
What excuse a player gives for not playing is their business.
This is not a cover up. It's designed to protect the player's reputation.
You have to tell a player what's happened so they can prepare for their defence.
You don't have to tell the public because nothing has been proven as yet.
If nothing is ever proven, isn't it fair that the player's reputation was not tarnished due to untested allegations?
Unfortunately, your avalanche of posts on the Pova subject is about all one gets to see around here these days and they all read like they've been conceived under the influence of something much stronger than anything any athlete could have ever doped onYou are wrong, as usual, see my posts for the necessary correction.
Unfortunately, your avalanche of posts on the Pova subject is about all one gets to see around here these days and they all read like they've been conceived under the influence of something much stronger than anything any athlete could have ever doped on(so, you'll have to excuse me if, as a consequence, I just tend to gloss over them
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Emulating your idol in the cheap dig department?Your fact-less, swooning indulgence of Nadal is a love affair of the ages.
Of course she would have pretended to be injured if ITF would have allowed it.
The ONLY reason she came forward is to get ahead of the story.
The rest of her post is nonsense. If she knew she was taking any medications or supplements, it's up to her and her team to check them against the list of banned substances. The list apparently comes out at the SAME TIME each and every year and she's been a pro player for 12 years or so.
She should just go away and serve out her suspension gracefully.
Who is off tour now mysteriously with a mystery injury?Wow....since she hinted that silent bans are real, I wonder who she is referring to?
True.
She has no excuse--she is a walking industry where all of the repeated "boxes" of her professional life are checked. Its all business, so no one--except the most drop-to-the-knee worshipers--would believe that when it came to her drug use, it was an oversight / accident / casual slip up.
With each new excuse, she only adds to her inescapable guilt.
Impossible, when Sharapova--and everyone around her--have spent a career believing the fantasy of her being above guilt, above questioning, above accountability.
True.
She has no excuse--she is a walking industry where all of the repeated "boxes" of her professional life are checked. Its all business, so no one--except the most drop-to-the-knee worshipers--would believe that when it came to her drug use, it was an oversight / accident / casual slip up.
With each new excuse, she only adds to her inescapable guilt.
Impossible, when Sharapova--and everyone around her--have spent a career believing the fantasy of her being above guilt, above questioning, above accountability.
"I won’t pretend to be injured so I can hide the truth about my testing."
Wow, doesn't this imply there are players who would pretend to be injured to hide positive tests? Then again Pova did annouce her injury first then his test result.
This will all just be used in court against her...she should stop posting....posting to her fans won't change anything
Hope she gets hit with a 2 year ban.
Fed and Dopa seem like they are on good terms.
The dig was almost certainly directed at Nadal.
What I don't get is why don't they make the latest updated list of banned substances available on a website accessible to all ? They can just say that it is updated monthly/quarterly and it is the job of the players to keep themselves informed by checking that website. Why send email with buried links and then require a login/pwd to access that information ? What is so confidential about it ?
What I don't get is why people just make stuff up like they're running for the GOP Nominarion instead of taking 2 seconds to go to the original source and check for themselves.
Of course they post it it. Go to WADA website. It's probably the way many athletes and their advisors (each of who is obligated to be familiar with the list) get the list. And they don't say it's updated monthly/quarterly they say it's updated annually because that's when they update it.
In addition there is an iPhone app.
There is a Wallet Card as well. Get your own at the ITF link below.
Or download the 2026 list with includes changes to the list from the 2015 version.
http://www.itftennis.com/antidoping/rules/prohibited-list.aspx
You almost have to go out of your way not to get the information. And every single person that advises you on your tennis IS ALSO OBLIGATED TO BE AWARE OF THE DOPING RULES AND THE LIST OF BANNED SUBSTANCES.
SO more excuses + a cheap low blow/anonymous dig
Sharapova the least liked WTA player among her peers being her usual charming self and not about to gain friends anytime soon...
There are no silent bans. But see my posts for a full explanation.
What I don't get is why people just make stuff up like they're running for the GOP Nominarion instead of taking 2 seconds to go to the original source and check for themselves.
Of course they post it it. Go to WADA website. It's probably the way many athletes and their advisors (each of who is obligated to be familiar with the list) get the list. And they don't say it's updated monthly/quarterly they say it's updated annually because that's when they update it.
In addition there is an iPhone app.
There is a Wallet Card as well. Get your own at the ITF link below.
Or download the 2026 list with includes changes to the list from the 2015 version.
http://www.itftennis.com/antidoping/rules/prohibited-list.aspx
You almost have to go out of your way not to get the information. And every single person that advises you on your tennis is ALSO OBLIGATED TO BE AWARE OF THE DOPING RULES AND THE LIST OF BANNED SUBSTANCES.
?..She is making it sound like it is the ITF/WTA's job to make sure she gets the information on banned substances and not her and her team's responsibility to keep themselves informed...
Would you be quiet already. You have no idea if silent bans exist or not. There is certainly a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to the fact that they do exist.
I know they don't exist. You are dealing with bureaucracies. They don't operate like the mafia. So take your conspiratorial fantasies somewhere else.
Maybe she is referring to herself.Wow....since she hinted that silent bans are real, I wonder who she is referring to?
Maybe she is referring to herself.