And people think that taking coke has no consequences “because most young people are doing it these days”.
Consequences are there, just not immediately apparent.
19-24 year-old ‘men’ are very stable and in control of their impulses and would not feel isolated at all if a scary gang threatened their career.
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All sounds like a bit of recreation. You just wait till the TB4 gang starts annexing the Sudetenland.
So has everyone just forgotten about this already?
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the AFL can do anything they want if they have a nano sized strand of over cooked spaghetti that links their actions to player welfare.
like govt’s using the national security defence…
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I think it was @handypoint who posted about this a few days ago in (I think) another thread but was criticised for being a “tourist” despite having deeper knowledge of the countries involved.
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Cocaine is the most ■■■■■■ drug on the planet.(well theres also its concentrated brother crack too), mainly because of it’s supply chain and how it’s produced.
The death and destruction it causes compared to literally every other substance (legal or illegal) is on another level.
Just last week the cartels executed a political candidate in Mexico because she wanted to take a stand against them.
It tears down the Amazon. Terrorises communites across the americas. The profits fuel organised crime.
Before you even start on the individual effects of taking one of the most addictive substances on the planet.
Whilst its an illegal substance I don’t know anyone with half a conscious can consider consuming it.
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Yet another example of the gross hypocrisy of WADA - making excuses for doped up Chinese swimmers …after making an example of Essendon players who never tested positive for anything.
How does food get contaminated in a kitchen with heart drug…
Chinese doping scandal rocks Olympic swimming
A top secret drugs controversy involving half of the Chinese Olympic swim team before the Tokyo Olympics was deemed to be no fault of the swimmers and was not appealed by the World Anti Doping Agency, impacting on Australia’s medal chances at the Olympic Games.
An explosive investigation by German broadcasters ARD, the same team which broke the story about Russian collusion at the Sochi Winter Olympics – has found 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug seven months prior to the postponed Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021.
The drug in question was trimetazidine (TMZ), the same drug which created enormous controversy for young Russian skater Kamila Valieva at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 in a case pursued by WADA resulting in four year ban and Russia being stripped of the Olympic team medal. She said the substance had been in her grandfather’s strawberry dessert. It was also the drug taken by China’s headline swimmer Sun Yang in 2014, who received a three month sanction.
WADA says it was notified in June 2021 of the decision by the China Anti-Doping Agency that the swimmers had tested positive having been inadvertently exposed to the substance through contamination found in the kitchen of the hotel where they had been staying.
However, controversially, WADA decided not to open a case against the Chinese swimmers, deeming they “had no fault or negligence” because of the low levels of the drug and that an appeal was not warranted because a contamination explanation could not be disproved.
WADA investigations inside of China couldn’t be conducted because of Covid-19 restrictions.
Usually WADA operates a no-fault policy, where a competitor is responsible for any positive test, and is only exonerated after lengthy investigations.
The swimming world is highly attuned to positive tests by Chinese swimmers going back 30 years to the 1994 world swimming championships in Rome where the team won 12 of 16 gold medals and broke five world records.
Some of the Chinese swimmers who were positive in the January 2021 testing went on to win Olympic medals included the female butterflyer Zhang Yufei who won two gold and two silver medals finishing ahead of Australia in two relay events. She was second in the 100m butterfly event behind American Maggie McNeil and ahead of Australia’s bronze medallist Emma McKeon.
ARD said others who tested positive to TMZ and competed at the Tokyo Games, including ■■■■ Shun, who won the 200m individual medley and the world record breaststroker Qin Haiyang.
WADA said remarks made by Mr Tygart to the program were politically motivated and undermined WADA’s work to protect clean sport, insisting that Wada had acted in good faith, followed due process and followed advice of external legal counsel in deciding not to appeal the Chinese cases. Mr Tygart had said: “All of those with dirty hands in burying these positives and suppressing the voices of courageous whistleblowers must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the rules and law.”
The former head of WADA David Howman said it would be a tragedy if WADA’s reputation was to lose trust.
“You want the public to have confidence in your regulator. If you lose that confidence, then the reputation of the regulator starts going down the gurgler,“ he told ARD. “And if that were to occur, that would be tragedy for WADA.”
WADA said in a statement that it collected additional, unpublished scientific information on TMZ and consulted with independent scientific experts to test the contamination theory and also whether low doses of TMZ could have benefited the athletes during a swimming competition event.
WADA Senior Director of Science and Medicine, Professor Olivier Rabin said: “there was no concrete basis to challenge the asserted contamination. Indeed, the contamination scenario was further supported by the combination of the consistently low concentrations of TMZ as well as no doping pattern with several athletes presenting multiple samples collected over the course of several days which fluctuated between negative and positive (and vice versa).”
Behind the scenes officials at the independent Testing Agency and the USADA raised issues with WADA regarding what they believed to be a possible misreporting of the TMZ samples.
WADA said those complaints were independently reviewed by the WADA Intelligence and Investigations Department, which concluded that proper procedures had been followed and that there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
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So much for the burden of proof.
WADA saying that the explanation could not be disproved.
IIRC, WADA rules provide that the burden of proof is on the athlete in the event of a positive test.
WADA actions should be taken up in UNESCO, which has carriage for the UN treaty according WADA status.
Would an FOI uncover the briefings to our Mission to UNESCO in Paris on UNESCO meetings relevant to the anti- doping treaty ? Does Australia engage at all in relevant UNESCO meetings? And does the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) of our own Parliament ever monitor?
Tracey Holmes now on ABC, saying a major doco will be on German TV tonight.
Waiting to hear a peep from our Minister for Sport.
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Lmao unpublished scientific information eh. Sounds credible.
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Good old trustworthy WADA
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Lap dog not watchdog.
Not my headline but so true. Hope this goes further than the AFL’s coke testing news.
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Notice how all that coke testing stuff has gone very, very quiet.
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Same as the Hawthorne bizzo. Big broom, big carpet.
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Farking joke!!!
Hypocrisy.
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and collusion and corruption. ■■■■ the IOC and its cronies.
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Corruption from:
1: The Australian Federal Govt & their ■■■■■■■■ public servant sycophants
2: The Australian MSM
3: WADA
4: The AFL commission
5: ASADA
What we need is a royal enquiry into how the fark in our so called free & just society, that 34 + 2 Australians were railroaded into a foreign court, in a foreign language, using foreign law … WTAF, why do we have elections if not to protect our citizens.
Kudos & rewards from the AFL, the Olympic Committee & WADA should not be allowed as motivations to throw Australian citizens under the bus …. EVER in any circumstance & this is what occurred with the “saga pile on” that took place. The Australian MSM were particularly disgraceful, what happened to keeping the bastards honest?
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I wish we had been big enough not to be bullied by WADA.
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