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Wimbledon 2019


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Guest Pistonbroke

Fair play to him then, doesn't excuse what he did mind or indeed the easy ride the media have given him. Plenty of people make huge mistakes and all that, but those mistakes shouldn't just be brushed under the carpet because they learnt from them. 

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4 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Fair play to him then, doesn't excuse what he did mind or indeed the easy ride the media have given him. Plenty of people make huge mistakes and all that, but those mistakes shouldn't just be brushed under the carpet because they learnt from them. 

TBH, I'm not sure just what he can tell them they shouldn't already know.

 

'Errrm, don't do Persian rugs, or at least don't get caught doing them'.

 

 

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No 1 seed in the Women's draw is out. Barty taking on one Risk too many........

 

That opens that half of the draw up for S Williams or the winner of Konta v Kvitova. 

 

Americans having a good Wimbledon so far. 

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7 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

The amount Gauff will have taken from playing someone like Halep today will hugely boost her development for future years.

Not to mention the 175k she has got in prize money from it 

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7 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Got sponsorships worth over a million quid lined up already I read this weekend, so that side’s already boxed off.

Isn't she signed with Federers agency as well? Fair play to her. 

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Konta through to the last 8. The media will ramp up the pressure now, especially since the women's WC is finished and the women are bottling it in the Ashes. I wonder how many of those in the crowd clapping and cheering are against immigration. 

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23 hours ago, Pistonbroke said:

Fair play to him then, doesn't excuse what he did mind or indeed the easy ride the media have given him. Plenty of people make huge mistakes and all that, but those mistakes shouldn't just be brushed under the carpet because they learnt from them. 

I’m not fishing here but why do sportsmen get such lengthy bans for taking Cocaine?Its illegal yes, and it doesn’t set a good example to youngsters but they only know about it after the authorities release details.Its not as if it’s a performance enhancing drug and it would do more harm than good if anything surely? 

 

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Because it's on the banned substance list. 

 

This is taken from the following article..... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/20/punishment-for-cocaine-use-does-not-fit-crime

 

There is a further twist in all this. Lawyers tell me that in the vast majority of cases, athletes don’t test positive for cocaine but for its metabolite benzoylecgonine, which lingers in the body after the drug is taken. What is happening is that athletes are taking the drug several days before the match, often on a night out – which wouldn’t usually incur a Wada sanction – yet because they have a tiny bit lurking in their system on a match day everything changes. This is exactly what happened to the Castleford rugby league player Zak Hardaker last September – he was banned for 14 months – and Dan Evans, the British tennis player, who was banned for one year after testing positive for cocaine last April.

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