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are you enjoying radio 5 ?
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what r they saying
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Sanctions wont be that hard, only been on the banned list for 3 weeks and she's been taking it 10 years, if anything she's hugely underachieved the last decade. 3 months ban at most.
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everyone will be buying the drug
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The experts are all saying it will be a minimum of 1 year ban and that's on appeal, I doubt that their biggest poster girl will even miss Wimbledon this year, Sharapova's team will come up with some bullshit defence and the authorities will more than happy to accept it as it's damaging for the sport go 1-2 years without her and then there will be the comeback with more talk about drugs in Tennis. She is literally the biggest pull on tour in the Women's game not far behind Federer in the men's.
Money talks people. |
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No way will she back for Wimbledon imo if the ban date is starting from 12th March. I reckon she will get around 6 months on appeal.
The authorities will be under pressure to do something from the general media. Fixing, doping, these aren't the sort of scandals your sport wants, there will be pressure to give a sanction that doesn't look a slap on the wrist. The initial sanction will probably be around 2 years, but there will of course be an appeal. |
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she should have cut her foot in a restaurant and retired to her panic room.
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bring back the good old days: everything - including the performance enhancing substances - was simple, open, and more fun as well
Stimulants have long been popular on the tour. The celebrated diva Suzanne Lenglen braced herself between sets with sips of cognac. Eventually, alcohol in industrial quantities became the drug of choice on the circuit, and hangovers, not overdoses, were the greatest danger. As described in The Romance of Wimbledon, a book by John Olliff, The Daily Telegraph’s tennis correspondent, the ‘21 quarterfinal between Zenzo Shimidzu of Japan and Randolf Lycett of Australia was a drunken fiasco. Played on a blisteringly hot day, the match was deadlocked at a set apiece and 3-3 in the third, when Lycett seemed to suffer sunstroke and had to be revived with gin. Though wobbly, Lycett won the third set, but couldn’t continue without another stimulant — champagne. Apparently, he drank a whole bottle and by the fifth set was staggering and stumbling, falling and crawling around on his hands and knees, searching for his racket. While it’s not surprising that Lycett lost, it may shock some fans to learn that the Aussie wasn’t the last player to quaff champagne on Centre Court. That dubious honor belongs to Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase, who split a bottle during a doubles match in the mid-’70s and were seen as jolly good fellows for doing so. |
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Total BS - she is surrounded by a huge team including doctors, physios, people from her management company etc and you are telling me that nobody bothered to check that this prescription drug shes been taking for 10 years wasn't on the banned list - even if it was only recently added.
Any clean top class athlete is unbelievably careful what they eat and drink - so a prescribed drug would be double checked. Even 15 years ago when I was involved in cricket - far from the most stringent sport - there were teams of people around to advise on what you could and couldn't take, and plenty of notice is given as to what amendments are to be made to the regulations. Dodgy as. |
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she should retire now and wta should be banned.
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did enrigue iglesias pork her?
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capriati having a meltdown on twitter
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i reckon she did stop taking it.
so how on earth might it have got into her system....... not really one to trouble sherlock holmes...... |
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No, surely if she stopped taking it she would just say that and fight the case somewhat.
She even said she still has been taking it up until now. |
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you're not thinking what i'm thinking.
she used to take it, and then she stopped taking it. it used to be in her blood, and then she stopped taking it, and then somehow, without her taking it since the ban came about, it appeared in her blood again. seriously, it is far and away more feasible to believe the rather simple explanation for how this happened, rather than her version of events. |
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^ Have you been drinking?
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i'm not going to type it out here.
just a little bit of thinking. |
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She had sex with someone who was taking drug?
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Perhaps Maria should have let Serena win that particular battle then...
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"I failed the test and take full responsibility for that," she said. "I received an email on [December 22] from WADA about the changes happening to the banned list, and you can see prohibited items, and I didn't click on that link."
Hmmm... Why wouldn't you click on that link, Maria??  |
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no leopard.
don't make things complicated. |
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She had a blood transfusion and the drug happened to be in it?
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and who, in your imagined scenario, might the donor have been?
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I'd like to know how Djokovic went from a guy who could barely play 3 sets to bionic superman.....and gluten free diet is not the answer
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again, the answer is obvious.
particularly when you consider that WADA can only reliably test for one of the two types of blood transfusions. now, this may seem far fetched to some, but you have to consider how far fetched it is in relation to maria's explanation, rather than in isolation. |
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If you look at Sharapova's physique then it's obvious that if she has been cheating, then it's as much as it about building muscle mass as it is about stamina.
When she first burst on to the scene in the early 2000's she was quite skinny. But now you look at her and she's got shoulders like a linebacker. Serena is similar in many ways as when she played Steffi in 1999 she was pretty skinny, but she just looks like this giant hulk. Bringing this power to their game gives them the ability to power these scorching groundstrokes past bewildered opposition. Add all the screeching that Sharapova has got up to over the years, it all adds to a pretty awful picture of her. In fact I'm amazed she's so popular. Looks wise she's not even that great. And yet she's made hundreds of millions of dollars off the back of a career which is now just looking like one big fraud. |
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she was always very broad shouldered even when she won in 2004. she's built like a swimmer
endurance and stamina, well that's another thing entirely. |
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what lewisham ranger said. spot on analysis.
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DStyle, don't understand what you're getting at tbh. she stopped taking it, but it got in her system again? care to explain this farfetched theory?
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read the thread
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I read it all.
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doubt you'll get sued, PM me if it's so scandalous. or are you being cryptic on purpose?
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this is truly the news on World Women's Day
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next Grand Slam we'll see Masha is a wildcard into Aussie Open 2018 i'd imagine
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two cups of distilled water, one sachet of salt.
i tell you that i've put salt from the sachet in one of the first cup of water, but not put any salt from the sachet in the second. yet the water in the second cup contains salt. |
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*salt from the sachet in the first cup of water
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it was immaculate conception after all!
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