#anti doping

[onscarlitos]

had to get off reddit because it PAINS me that people genuinely think involuntary contamination of a banned substance is on par with domestic violence and assault - and this further points to how misogynistic tennis is (and let's be real, sports culture in general)

this might be a hot take but tbh even if someone was intentionally doping (and I don't believe Jannik was), aside from making me question fairness, their integrity etc, they would still NEVER come close to being as terrible of a person as an assaulter and abuser (looking at zverat, ky*gios, TSW, and too many more)

but while im at this 2am rant, a lot of the folks with deeply uninformed opinions act like they wouldn't have handled this *exactly* as Jannik did (utilizing every single resource they have at their disposal). Do I think these resources need to be accessible by every player regardless of rank and prize money? YES!

And more eloquent people than me have said this but the goal wasn't for Jannik to have a longer ban (at least that wasn't my reading); the goal is for every case from now on to be handled more cautiously, more intentionally, and with more resources and frankly, more grace given to the accused player.

we can't turn back time and change what happened to halep or jarry etc but we can change the system going forward. but being more punitive is not changing the system

[andiatas]

I- I have no comment hahah

[bi-dykes]

Riley and Maya and Cady Heron, thank you for your service 🫡

[ash-dispersal-pattern]

heard systempunk is making the rounds, let’s fucking go

systempunk is having five different battle jackets because all of the punk headmates want Their Own Shit (and none of them are finished)

systempunk is having various headmates who id as various forms of -punk (solarpunk, genderpunk, etc) and adding sytempunk to the list

[antiradqueef]

made more anti discourse (punk?) userboxes, this time based off "terrible" by ICP!

trying out a different format this time!

WHOOP WHOOP!!

[stromuprisahat]

So let me get this straight:

A couple of high Tidemakers just misted SIX soldiers as if it were nothing, then proceed to fail the same task with TWO people, because one of them happens to be a lousy Fabricator, who can barely make a toothpick out of metal, and metal shavings happen to bother LIQUIFYING people, because they can damage their ~organs~?!

The very same ones that don't have an issue with chunks of bricks and mortar, when passing through walls?!

And said Tidemakers try to solve it by manipulating THE METAL, because they can't liquify when injured?!

Or even move a little to the left, so their attacker has to refocus?

Perhaps those TWO (likely trained) heavily intoxicated Grisha got tired... when Jesper "I can only direct small objects, that already have speed" did more precise summoning than in the whole past month, but a vision of immediate death supplied enough strength to target the other two...

(I have this vague memory of basic physics saying something about static objects requiring more energy to move than those already in motion, but we wouldn't want to apply that, would we?!)

[neon-emojiz]

Random wordmoji dump, I'm enjoying the new style. I hope yall are too

[x-heesy]

Uǝɯɐ ʎpoolq

A Society that forgets, will repeat the same Errors.

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@elleceee 🎭

#autosuggestion #pointofview #codingyourself #programyourself #endlessness #creatingyourself #neverstoplearning #fantasy #empathy #equality #respect #love #basics

New World by Zap Mama 🎧

#maybeiamadreamerbutiamnottheonlyone ✅

[bopinion]

2024 / 16

Aperçu of the Week

"You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready."

(Peter Gene Hernandez, better known as Bruno Mars and my sons favorite soundtrack while he's cooking)

Bad News of the Week

Sport actually has nothing to do with politics. Because the competition is carried out by individuals who (can) stand outside of systems. Nevertheless, sport is often instrumentalized by politics by stylizing successful athletes as symbolic figures for the strength of a system. I can still remember the Olympic Games in the 70s and 80s very well, in which the athletes of the USA and the Soviet Union competed against each other in many ways as a priority. And Rocky IV, of course.

It is fitting that sports organizations have always been suspected of being corrupt - often rightly so, see FIFA. It is therefore clear that it is almost always not the athletes who are the problem, but the officials. Do you need proof? How about China and doping? Because there was a big boom this week, as a journalistic investigative team from ARD (the BBC of Germany) found out.

At a national swimming competition in China at the beginning of 2021, 23 swimmers tested positive in the mandatory doping tests - which means negative in this context. This was then covered up. With the knowledge of WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency). The agency did not consider it worth investigating the banned substance trimetazidine, for which the Russian figure skating prodigy Kamila Valiyeva was banned for four years in the same year. The Chinese swimmers, however, were not. In the following Summer Olympics in Tokyo, three of them won gold and two silver.

We can see that China today is what the Soviet Union (and to some extent the GDR) used to be - a regime that abuses even its top performers to score points at international level. The staff looking after athletes (including doctors who have long since thrown the Hippocratic Oath overboard) still have more say than the athletes themselves. An institution that was set up to prevent malpractice can also be corrupt. At the major sporting events this summer, first the European Men's Football Championships and then the Olympic Games in Paris, spectators will not know whether they are cheering on a fake. And the athletes themselves won't know whether the competition was fair at all.

Good News of the Week

At last, US weapons are back in Ukraine. For months, the Republican “Freedom caucus” in the House of Representatives had been standing on the brakes. And Ukraine lost. Because, as is generally the case in the NATO context, all other members cannot compensate for the loss of by far the most capable partner country. It is therefore a great relief that the rationalists in the USA have regained the upper hand. And are now giving the badly shaken Ukraine hope again.

The following still applies: if Putin can subjugate Ukraine or impose a dictated peace on it, he will not sit back contentedly in his armchair in the Kremlin and enjoy the day of victory. He will continue in his quest to bring the Soviet Union back from the dead. Even if the Baltic states are members of NATO, they would be his next victims (not to mention Moldova, for example). Because apparently he could simply allow himself to do this without being stopped. The democracy of the whole of Europe is being defended in Ukraine, that must not be forgotten. So my heartfelt thanks to the US Congress.

A positive side effect of all this is that the same financial package, which Joe Biden will undoubtedly sign as soon as possible, contains even more. Namely 26 billion US dollars for the suffering population in Gaza - in your face, Benjamin Netanyahu! And 8 billion for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region - in your face, Xi Jinping! The USA are back on the world stage where they belong. I would not have thought it, but I must now pay tribute to a member of the Republican establishment. So thank you, Speaker of the House James Michael “Mike” Johnson. Hopefully I'll get over it...

Personal happy moment of the week

My son was in trouble with a teacher. A misunderstanding - that had developed into a solid crisis due to a certain stubbornness on both sides - was now threatening to cost him his participation in a project that is important to him. I took his side and was called in for a “clarifying discussion”. This was then canceled because the teacher (probably looking for reinforcement and arguments) consulted with other teachers. And “received very positive feedback on his behavior”. Disciplinary measures were not taken “because he is so committed and keeps the group together.” So a serious accusation suddenly turned into high praise.

I couldn't care less...

...that a Belgian court acquitted a driver who was driving with a blood alcohol level of 2.1. Because he suffers from the extremely rare “home-brew syndrome”: the body produces alcohol itself, which leads to the usual symptoms such as reduced responsiveness etc. Anyone who is a danger to themselves and, above all, to others on the road should not be allowed to drive - for whatever reason. After all, the disability of no blind person is their own fault. But no court in the world would allow him to drive.

It's fine with me...

...that for the first time in the history of the USA a criminal trial is taking place against a (former) president. I don't care whether or not you can plead guilty to election interference by falsifying business records because of hush money payments to a porn star. I just wish that a proven notorious liar and cheat, who is also a sexist, racist, homophobe and incidentally “unfit for office”, would finally have to take responsibility for his actions in court.

As I write this...

...April lives up to its name: first you can go swimming and two days later it's snowing. Candles are set up in the vineyards to warm the tender buds. And the hedgehog that has been hibernating on the terrace under our barbecue probably thinks it has woken up too early. Allergy sufferers are happy about the abrupt end of the pollen season. But everyone misses spring.

Post Scriptum

Everyone gets their life from their mother. She is the primary caregiver that all humans have in their first perceptions. That's why I've never understood why so many men simply devalue this in the course of their lives - and grant women fewer rights than themselves. Poverty, discrimination and a lack of equal rights cost lives, according to the latest UN World Population Report.

Not only is there no progress towards equality, there is actually a decline. The rights of “women, girls and gender-diverse people are being pushed back more and more,” says Dr. Natalia Kanem (head of the United Nations Population Fund). Lack of representation and limited self-determination force one in four women under a male-dominated yoke. And sexual violence is a problem in almost every country in the world. No man can want that. Not for his mother, not for his sister, not for his daughter. And not for his wife either. Shame on you!

[nancywheeeler]

the entire sinner situation is reason #56792 why i could never be a professional athlete. having to worry about what cream your physio is using on a small cut they have on their hand because it might end up leading to you testing positive for a microscopic amount of a banned substance? exhausting.

[galerymod]

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an ineffective and inept organisation that is unable and unwilling to fulfil its obligations consistently across the various jurisdictions in which it operates.

We support the establishment of a new world anti-doping agency by clean athletes in the Netherlands, independent of governmental and political activities.

The agency would be neutral, according to the latest standards of anti-doping, with independent laboratories that are changed every year. It would be funded proportionally by the sports industry, without any say in the matter, and would represent those who no longer trust WADA.

WADA has a history of acting in a manner that is not in the best interests of athletes. Given that we do not see the point in listing all of WADA's misdemeanours and do not believe that the existing system can be reformed, we will not list any more facts here.

Everything has already been exposed in the numerous misdemeanours that have been reported in the world press.

mod

We would like to point out that we ourselves were athletes who trained for the Olympics and reject any attempt at manipulation through doping.

Well, we didn't make it due to external circumstances, but we would never have accepted the highest performance under dopping for ourselves if we had been given the choice.

If everything is as open to question as it already is, then perhaps it would be best to release everything you can dop without limits.

Then good night sport!

[ashtonisvibing]

need to figure out human names for dark, google, and bing, but i'm HORRID with naming people.

no one suggest damien for dark that's an immediate no- cuz then that kinda erases celine from dark which i don't wanna do, i want dark to be his own character separate from celine and damien.

also google and bing are brothers because i say so. i might need to adjust the ages cuz i don't remember their specific ages, but obviously bing is younger than google (since that's how it is with the irl search engines lol)

anyways yeah gimme name ideas because i have zero-

[giantkillerjack]

Me and my wife: *hang out for 6 hours and stay up til midnight talking about our favorite things*

My wife: *leaves to shower and go to bed*

Me, 2 minutes later: *picks up phone to text her about the new movie trailer I just watched*

[linusjf]

Marion Jones: No reason

Marion Jones (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you — they don’t even have a reason. ” —Marion Jones.

[figureskatingfanblog]

The hearing against Kamila Valieva will take place September 26 - 29.

[angelamontoo]

A lot of my lorre related opinions have changed since I've had this blog

The biggest one I can think of rn is that Polo and 'I was an Adventuress' >>>>>>> Louie and 'I'll give a million'