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If Nadal was Australian, and was found to have failed a dope test, nothing would be ever said.
Nothing is said about Sam Stosur, because (a) she often loses early in tournaments, (b) she is Australian, and (c) the sports media don't care about Australian women's tennis.
I'm telling you, if someone who is representing Australia on the world stage was found guilty of drugs, the media would cover it up.
Why? Because Australia are the world leaders at self-righteously banging their chest about how "we are clean, and everyone else cheats".
The so-called "blackest day in sport" has only focused on AFL and NRL, two sports that aren't prominent on the world stage. They don't represent "Australia".
Cricketers won't get positive tests, since there is an Ashes later in the year. Olympians won't get tested, because the Olympics are two years away. If anyone is found "guilty", it will never be reported, since they don't want to (a) attract attention that may weaken a team who represents Australia, and (b) we would be shown as a laughing stock and hypocrite, since we condemn everyone else all the time.
You mean to tell me that, in over 30 Olympics, where Australia have participated in every one, that not one athlete has ever tested positive to anything. The law of averages says that there must have been guilty people representing us at the Olympics, but it was covered up.
Sam Riley was suspected years ago of eating a tablet from the bottom of her coach's bag. Despite the athlete "being responsible for what they put in their body", the media instead focused their attention on her coach, Scott Volkers, and he was drummed out of Olympic coaching, for "instructing Sam Riley of taking an illegal substance". Riley however got no condemnation for her actions, but then, she was a gold medal swimmer, and the Olympics weren't far off.
Look at how the Australian sports media were quick to condemn Lance Armstrong and others of drugs, when they had never been found positive, yet never suspect their own Cadel Evans, who must have been the only "non-drug cheat" to have won the Tour De France during the Armstrong era. But if Lance Armstrong had been Australian, rather than a noisy Yank, then the media would have defended him and said that the "drug charges" were a witchhunt.
It probably exists in tennis as in anywhere. I do wonder how tennis is in the Olympics, since I thought you had to be signed onto the WADA code to be able to participate in the Olympics.
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