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Haha, is right. Heard everyone apart from Jong Tae Se (who is actually a pretty good player) and the guy who scored against Brazil, got some sort of public humiliation/community service sort of affair.
The Olympics Thread, London 2012, Games of the XXX Olympiad, 27th July - 12th August
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Haha, is right. Heard everyone apart from Jong Tae Se (who is actually a pretty good player) and the guy who scored against Brazil, got some sort of public humiliation/community service sort of affair.
Phyllis Stein
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Her that won the 400m hurdles, besides the time being a bit good, the way she was coming off the hurdles - was like watching krusty the clown pi55ed up, just the three paces after landing after each hurdle.
Phyllis Stein
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These hurdles heats, never seen so many hurdles over since Colin Jackson was in an Olympics.
Robles just **** out of that final as soon as Merit went ahead of him.
McBain
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noticed that too. The Hurdlers are abit crap nowadays 50% of them keep knocking em over!
Ladies 100m hurdles was good, 5/6 athletes in a row, all going over pretty much together, only one hurdle hit (Turkish girl hit her last one I think).
Phyllis Stein
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The reffing and judging in the boxing has been hideous, some of the worst decisions I have ever witnessed. Terrifying.
Rook
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You will not dive in front of Nick Batum, from yahoo
ONDON – After France's Nicolas Batum delivered a vicious punch to the groin of Spain guard Juan Carlos Navarro, Batum left no confusion over his intentions."I wanted to give him a good reason to flop," Batum said.
Batum was angry with the Spanish guards for falling to the floor for what he believed was incidental contact throughout Spain's 66-59 quarterfinal victory over France at North Greenwich Arena.
Asked by Yahoo! Sports if he believed his punch to the groin had given Navarro "good reason," Batum smiled and said, "I hope so."
ONDON – After France's Nicolas Batum delivered a vicious punch to the groin of Spain guard Juan Carlos Navarro, Batum left no confusion over his intentions."I wanted to give him a good reason to flop," Batum said.
Batum was angry with the Spanish guards for falling to the floor for what he believed was incidental contact throughout Spain's 66-59 quarterfinal victory over France at North Greenwich Arena.
Asked by Yahoo! Sports if he believed his punch to the groin had given Navarro "good reason," Batum smiled and said, "I hope so."
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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so when he was a young boy he would've been ?
[video=youtube;iwcfGDOcW2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcfGDOcW2E[/video]
wonder if it caused a double-dribble ?
[video=youtube;iwcfGDOcW2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcfGDOcW2E[/video]
wonder if it caused a double-dribble ?
davek
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From today's Times:
"Six out of Ten are Using Drugs"
Sport’s most infamous drug baron turned whistleblower has teamed up with with Marlen Esparza, the boxer, and Ryan Bailey, the sprinter In a dimly lit corner of the ExCeL centre a small man with a neat moustache is giving a boxer a hug. This is the same man who once existed in sport’s shadowy corners and gave his athletes “the full enchilada†of drugs.
The presence at the Olympics of Victor Conte, sport’s most infamous drug baron turned whistleblower, is a PR disaster for those wishing to portray the London Games as the cleanest in history.
Conte says he is now legit and runs a company called Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning. He says he is working to close off the biggest loophole in Olympic drug-testing and is in demand from athletes. He also says that 60 per cent of those competing in the Olympic Stadium are on drugs, and named three top runners who he said had used “the Dwain Chambers protocolâ€.
Conte has been watching the boxing at the ExCeL for several days after teaming up with Marlen Esparza, of the United States. The 23-year-old lost her semi-final bout yesterday but will get a bronze medal. Conscious that her mother and sister did not have tickets for today’s medal ceremony, Conte handed them his tickets, whereupon they burst into tears. Sport has fewer reasons to be grateful. In a far-ranging interview, Conte revealed that he has been working with one of the men’s 100 metres finalists, said that drug-testing at the Games was “an IQ test†and explained why he started to supply designer drugs to athletes.
“In 1992 an Olympic official told me they were covering up five positive drug tests,†Conte said. “That created a rationale in my mind. I thought these guys were getting their drugs in dark alleys and from the boots of cars. I had a scientific lab and could help them make informed choices. It was a mistake, all wrong. I didn’t realise until I was sitting in a prison cell and my family came to see me and I saw the pain and suffering in their eyes. When Marion Jones was crying on the court steps, I didn’t see her, I saw her mother and children. They had done nothing wrong and their lives were destroyed. Finally, I realised the domino effect.â€
Conte spent four months in jail in 2006 after pleading guilty to orchestrating an illegal steroids distribution scheme. To some he is damaged goods, but there is no doubting his knowledge of the dark side. So he talks of a tiny implant that athletes from all sports can have inserted into their rear to keep their testosterone levels within accepted limits.
He also says he has been working with Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, on a project about “a substance that I found was widely used on the dark sideâ€. He believes that the Olympics and its vast investment in drug-testing are a sham. “It’s basically propaganda to come out and say this is the most expensively tested Games ever and ‘We’re doing 6,000 tests,’ †he said. “If you test positive at the Olympics, that is more of an IQ test. Athletes won’t do that. You have to put your hook and line in the water when the fish are biting and that was nine months ago. Is it easy to use drugs and benefit during Olympics? The answer is yes.â€
Conte says that he is semi-retired, but he is working with Esparza and Ryan Bailey, an American who was fifth in the 100 metres final on Sunday. “There are other athletes that reach out to me, who would like to keep it on down low for obvious reasons,†Conte said. “But one of the athletes I helped, with testing and an individual nutritional programme, was Ryan Bailey. I would like to have seen that, but it didn’t happen.â€
The idea of Conte sitting in the Olympic Stadium would be too much for the purists. Instead, he has based himself at the ExCeL and has kept a low profile.
However, he still has damning views about the blue-riband event and dismissed the idea often peddled in Caribbean nations that their athletes take drugs only when they move to the United States. “What a lot of people don’t realise is, back in the day, I was getting EPO from a doctor to the team [of a Caribbean nation]. I would send cash through Western Union and athletes delivered it to me in Styrofoam containers.†Just as depressing, Conte said that a reliable source had told him that three elite runners were using “the Dwain Chambers protocolâ€, a reference to the cocktail of seven drugs that Conte gave the sprinter. He later sent the details of Chambers’s doping programme to UK Anti-Doping, which he says is proof of his desire to make amends.
“Is there less doping now and is the testing better? Yes. Is it still the majority? I believe it is,†he said. “Whereas it was probably 80 per cent, it’s now maybe 60. To get your prize money from the IAAF you have to have two random tests before the end of the year. I don’t believe they are random. They call them out-of-competition, I call them in-between competition; they need to invest and go test people on their home soil.†Conte wonders why the authorities are not using a carbon isotope ratio test for synthetic testosterone. “That’s the biggest loophole in Olympic drug testing,†he said. “It costs $400 (about £255) but people are flying under the radar.†Conte says he is working with Dick Pound on using it for target testing.
Esparza has attracted headlines such as “America’s sweetheartâ€. Under Conte’s tutelage, she has used a hypoxicator to increase oxygen metabolism. Conte admits Esparza and her trainer talked about the taint of association, but decided his anti-doping statements were evidence of a changed man. “What I did was wrong,†he said. “But Balco was raided on September 3, 2003, and I have been telling the truth ever since — there is no Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny.â€
"Six out of Ten are Using Drugs"
Sport’s most infamous drug baron turned whistleblower has teamed up with with Marlen Esparza, the boxer, and Ryan Bailey, the sprinter In a dimly lit corner of the ExCeL centre a small man with a neat moustache is giving a boxer a hug. This is the same man who once existed in sport’s shadowy corners and gave his athletes “the full enchilada†of drugs.
The presence at the Olympics of Victor Conte, sport’s most infamous drug baron turned whistleblower, is a PR disaster for those wishing to portray the London Games as the cleanest in history.
Conte says he is now legit and runs a company called Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning. He says he is working to close off the biggest loophole in Olympic drug-testing and is in demand from athletes. He also says that 60 per cent of those competing in the Olympic Stadium are on drugs, and named three top runners who he said had used “the Dwain Chambers protocolâ€.
Conte has been watching the boxing at the ExCeL for several days after teaming up with Marlen Esparza, of the United States. The 23-year-old lost her semi-final bout yesterday but will get a bronze medal. Conscious that her mother and sister did not have tickets for today’s medal ceremony, Conte handed them his tickets, whereupon they burst into tears. Sport has fewer reasons to be grateful. In a far-ranging interview, Conte revealed that he has been working with one of the men’s 100 metres finalists, said that drug-testing at the Games was “an IQ test†and explained why he started to supply designer drugs to athletes.
“In 1992 an Olympic official told me they were covering up five positive drug tests,†Conte said. “That created a rationale in my mind. I thought these guys were getting their drugs in dark alleys and from the boots of cars. I had a scientific lab and could help them make informed choices. It was a mistake, all wrong. I didn’t realise until I was sitting in a prison cell and my family came to see me and I saw the pain and suffering in their eyes. When Marion Jones was crying on the court steps, I didn’t see her, I saw her mother and children. They had done nothing wrong and their lives were destroyed. Finally, I realised the domino effect.â€
Conte spent four months in jail in 2006 after pleading guilty to orchestrating an illegal steroids distribution scheme. To some he is damaged goods, but there is no doubting his knowledge of the dark side. So he talks of a tiny implant that athletes from all sports can have inserted into their rear to keep their testosterone levels within accepted limits.
He also says he has been working with Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, on a project about “a substance that I found was widely used on the dark sideâ€. He believes that the Olympics and its vast investment in drug-testing are a sham. “It’s basically propaganda to come out and say this is the most expensively tested Games ever and ‘We’re doing 6,000 tests,’ †he said. “If you test positive at the Olympics, that is more of an IQ test. Athletes won’t do that. You have to put your hook and line in the water when the fish are biting and that was nine months ago. Is it easy to use drugs and benefit during Olympics? The answer is yes.â€
Conte says that he is semi-retired, but he is working with Esparza and Ryan Bailey, an American who was fifth in the 100 metres final on Sunday. “There are other athletes that reach out to me, who would like to keep it on down low for obvious reasons,†Conte said. “But one of the athletes I helped, with testing and an individual nutritional programme, was Ryan Bailey. I would like to have seen that, but it didn’t happen.â€
The idea of Conte sitting in the Olympic Stadium would be too much for the purists. Instead, he has based himself at the ExCeL and has kept a low profile.
However, he still has damning views about the blue-riband event and dismissed the idea often peddled in Caribbean nations that their athletes take drugs only when they move to the United States. “What a lot of people don’t realise is, back in the day, I was getting EPO from a doctor to the team [of a Caribbean nation]. I would send cash through Western Union and athletes delivered it to me in Styrofoam containers.†Just as depressing, Conte said that a reliable source had told him that three elite runners were using “the Dwain Chambers protocolâ€, a reference to the cocktail of seven drugs that Conte gave the sprinter. He later sent the details of Chambers’s doping programme to UK Anti-Doping, which he says is proof of his desire to make amends.
“Is there less doping now and is the testing better? Yes. Is it still the majority? I believe it is,†he said. “Whereas it was probably 80 per cent, it’s now maybe 60. To get your prize money from the IAAF you have to have two random tests before the end of the year. I don’t believe they are random. They call them out-of-competition, I call them in-between competition; they need to invest and go test people on their home soil.†Conte wonders why the authorities are not using a carbon isotope ratio test for synthetic testosterone. “That’s the biggest loophole in Olympic drug testing,†he said. “It costs $400 (about £255) but people are flying under the radar.†Conte says he is working with Dick Pound on using it for target testing.
Esparza has attracted headlines such as “America’s sweetheartâ€. Under Conte’s tutelage, she has used a hypoxicator to increase oxygen metabolism. Conte admits Esparza and her trainer talked about the taint of association, but decided his anti-doping statements were evidence of a changed man. “What I did was wrong,†he said. “But Balco was raided on September 3, 2003, and I have been telling the truth ever since — there is no Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny.â€
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