Better to get pneumonia like and 80yo than getting gonorrhea like one
some part of it could be, having gone through the saga and learning what is restricted to players, i can’t remember who said it or in what context…
but these athletes (not just afl) are pushed to the absolute limits of physical limites, and restricted from taking everyday stuff that you or I could, simply cos in a diluted way they could be used for performance enhancing.
Oh you’ve got a flesh eating virus, well hang on now buddy, we don’t want you getting an unfair advantage, you go home and suck it up because we don’t want to give you drug A, cos someone somewhere has proven that it can be misused to get an unfair advantage.
as an example.
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Good for you.
80+ million of them don’t
Yes it is. Well done to identify that. Good to see google still works
Yes it usually acquired via cuts on limbs but usually consequences are more severe than amputation. Luckily for Hurls.
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Yes google is great… but its what I got told when I moved into Nightcliff. Plus knowing someone who had it.
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Dude, they’re allowed prescription medication, get a grip.
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Have a mate who’s a mad Richmond supporter who got a tiny cut in the garden the night before the 2017 grand final. Felt so sick he had to go to bed before the bounce and by half time he was in a coma in hopsital. Didn’t wake up for several days. Fortunately they won a couple more since!
Fortunately?
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not if it’s on the banned list they aren’t. or they need a special exemption from the governing body if memory serves me correctly.
Yes and it is a relatively straightforward process just needs supporting documentation from the treating medical experts
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Isn’t that how Alistair Lynch got to play for the Bears flag winning team though he was on steroids.
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that was one example i was remembering, but also remember it took a good 6 off months to a year to get the exemption on that (or a fairly long time).
it wasn’t just oh i have chronic fatigue, i need this drug to do the bare minimum, and then went sure.
then again it was 20 odd years ago so memory isn’t exactly rock solid on it
I believe he was on it for several years for CF whilst it was not on the banned list and then the status changed and he subsequently became aware of the changed after the event…he self reported, was charged but not banned.
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Would rather him forward than back… and I don’t even want him forward. I think this is his final notice. I don’t see this year being any better than last so I’d imagine a lot of the war horses being put to bed this year.
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Wikipedia says Lynch was on the steroid through 1998 and that it was retrospectively made illegal before he was charged later that year (sound familiar?). He was co-captain from the start of 1997 and playing most games so he wasn’t (persistently) crippled prior to taking the good stuff.
(I know another athlete who was struck down by chronic fatigue, so have sympathy. I can’t say whether what Lynch got was merely performance-retaining, of course.)
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IV antibiotics are far easier to administer in hospital with plenty of infections having no/far less effective oral options.
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Being mega fit is no good for your immune system.
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He should retire
My immune system should be fine then
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Yes, that’s why I have decided to go down the path of having a good immune system.
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