Something I noticed!

[Roobs321]

They target test because they can't prove it. They do this in order to apply pressure that could force a slip up or to catch one if it occurs.

Yeah, im not a fan.

 

[jenny61_99]

No it is a Emissions Trading Scheme that currently has a fixed price which will transition to a floating price over the next few years.

yet they call it a carbon tax.

 

[Forward Press]

Shall we take bets (irony intended) on the next group that catman blames for this scandal? We've already had feminists and politicians.

$1.95 - Andrew Demetriou
$2.40 - black people
$10 - Hamas
$501 - suppliers of PEDs and organised crime syndicates

 

[Ice-Wolf]

yet they call it a carbon tax.

They are really bad at explaining things.

 

[whiteoak]

Shall we take bets (irony intended) on the next group that catman blames for this scandal? We've already had feminists and politicians.

$1.95 - Andrew Demetriou
$2.40 - black people
$10 - Hamas
$501 - suppliers of PEDs and organised crime syndicates

The Amish.

It's always the bloody Amish.

 

[Forward Press]

USADA have had a hard on for Lance for years.

While I dont really agree with the way they targeted Lance (arguably they had a lack of evidence), they have ultimately been vindicated I guess.

There was plenty of circumstantial evidence though, reading up on Lance Armstrong's doping history leaves you quite stunned as to how he managed to avoid being caught and branded a cheat for so long.

 

[Roobs321]

Shall we take bets (irony intended) on the next group that catman blames for this scandal? We've already had feminists and politicians.

$1.95 - Andrew Demetriou
$2.40 - black people
$10 - Hamas
$501 - suppliers of PEDs and organised crime syndicates

John Worsfold is a pharmacist.
Apparently the drug trail in some aspects has been traced back to China.

Some mental gymnastics could be implemented there.

 

[Roobs321]

There was plenty of circumstantial evidence though, reading up on Lance Armstrong's doping history leaves you quite stunned as to how he managed to avoid being caught and branded a cheat for so long.

True.

It's kind of funny because Lance Armstrong is the most drug tested athlete in history.

 

[Forward Press]

Okay let's re-frame the market. There's been some late money for Vlad too.

$1.85 - Andrew Demetriou
$2.40 - black people
$3.10 - John Worsfold and other pharmacists
$10 - Hamas
$16 - Amish
$1001 - suppliers of PEDs and organised crime syndicates

True.

It's kind of funny because Lance Armstrong is the most drug tested athlete in history.

Always said he never tested positive - but he actually did.

 

[Doctor Feel]

You know, I have a ball.

...Perhaps you would like to bounce it.

 

[Gough]

I joked in one the other threads that somehow the Gillard government would be blamed for this. OP is deluded partisan fool.

 

[whiteoak]

If anything Gillard has put even more pressure on the Government because of this.

If this goes balls up somehow, then Abbott will have a field day.

 

[JUBJUB]

In the USA, USADA went after Lance Armstrong. I noticed that this happened while the U.S. election was going on.

Now, this whole sports drugs thing has happened just days after Julia Gillard called the election.

Coincidence?

Kids,this is what happens when you drink and post late night threads.
So don't be a bloody idiot.

 

[carnthemlions]

Okay let's re-frame the market. There's been some late money for Vlad too.

$1.85 - Andrew Demetriou
$2.40 - black people
$3.10 - John Worsfold and other pharmacists
$10 - Hamas
$16 - Amish
$1001 - suppliers of PEDs and organised crime syndicates



Always said he never tested positive - but he actually did.

I think it had something to do with communists. And maybe tom waterhouse
Andrew Demitriou is a sekrit muzlim!!!!!

 

[Sttew]

In the USA, USADA went after Lance Armstrong. I noticed that this happened while the U.S. election was going on.

Now, this whole sports drugs thing has happened just days after Julia Gillard called the election.

Coincidence?

In other words, do these drugs companies investigate these cases, and do it with an upcoming election, so that they can hit the govt up for more funding, and then use their latest "prize" as evidence of their improtance, and to get the media and public onside.

How could Obama or Rhomny turn down USADA needing more funds when they had just caught Lance Armstrong?

Let's see ASADA have finished their investigations by September, and then lean on Gillard and Abbott to pledge more funds towards them, and use their latest "prizes" of AFL teams and players to gain public support.

Or, more cynically, has the government / Juleeeya engineered this hot topic coming out now to deflect attention away from the government's poor ratings? Afterall, there is NOTHING bigger in Australia than sport, and AFL is No.1.

 

[Forward Press]

Or, more cynically, has the government / Juleeeya engineered this hot topic coming out now to deflect attention away from the government's poor ratings? Afterall, there is NOTHING bigger in Australia than sport, and AFL is No.1.

Or, even more cynically, why not engineer it to be closer to the election? We're still seven months out from polling day.

 

[Sttew]

Or, even more cynically, why not engineer it to be closer to the election? We're still seven months out from polling day.

This story has only just begun.

 

[Gough]

I've had people try to tell me that our failures at the Olympics and the slump in form of the cricket team is the gummint's fault, I'd hazard a guess that OP is one of these types. Guys, we know you hate the government, but they are not responsible for every malady afflicting Australia.

 

[carnthemlions]

True.

It's kind of funny because Lance Armstrong is the most drug tested athlete in history.

I highly doubt that- lance did a very good job of convincing people that he'd never tested positive in x amount of tests, that he got tested all the time etc etc. And everyone believed it. Or wanted to, at least

I have no problems with what USADA did in going after lance. What's the point in going after a few small time dopers when the biggest fraud in the history of organised sport is still out there?
Not to mention the livestrong crap- that was worse, if anything.

 

[Forward Press]

This story has only just begun.

Exactly.

If it turns out to be mostly nothing, then people won't give two shits about it seven months from now.

If you want to be a cynic or conspiracy theorist or what have you, it would be more appropriate if this came to light a few days before the election and we had Kate Lundy making the 'we will find you' threats as part of the image that the government really cares about sport. It could then turn out to be mostly nothing, but by then the election would already be done and dusted.

 

[carnthemlions]

Or, more cynically, has the government / Juleeeya engineered this hot topic coming out now to deflect attention away from the government's poor ratings? Afterall, there is NOTHING bigger in Australia than sport, and AFL is No.1.

 

[Roobs321]

Could be a few 'early retirements' this year.

 

[Jamurp]

Someone get Mark McVeigh on the line.

 

[Blues_Man]

USADA have had a hard on for Lance for years.

While I dont really agree with the way they targeted Lance (arguably they had a lack of evidence), they have ultimately been vindicated I guess.

Gee, ya think ?

 

[Sttew]

Exactly.

If it turns out to be mostly nothing, then people won't give two shits about it seven months from now.

If you want to be a cynic or conspiracy theorist or what have you, it would be more appropriate if this came to light a few days before the election and we had Kate Lundy making the 'we will find you' threats as part of the image that the government really cares about sport. It could then turn out to be mostly nothing, but by then the election would already be done and dusted.

What is coming through very loud and clear, at least on the east coast, is that it will NOT turn out to be "mostly nothing". If it was a beat up, you would not have the heads coming out so strongly and so grimly. Mark my word, this story isn't going away any time in the forseeable future.