Kolo Toure Suspended for Failed Drugs Test

BaZ87 said:
Providing a satisfactory explanation for missing the test is not given, any player that misses a test should be treated as if they failed it.

It's a valid point that spamalot makes. If you start handing out lesser punishments for those that miss their tests, players that expect to fail a drugs test would simply 'miss it'.

From what I remember being said at the time of the Ferdinand incident, it's nigh on impossible to 'miss' drugs tests anyway. IIRC, several ex-players said that the testers will escort you from the pitch/training ground and don't leave your side until you've produced a sample.
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At the time of the Rio incident it was said that all substances that were banned would stay in your system for a reasonably long time (obviously this could have changed in the intervening time) - If I recall correctly that is

If this is true, then a "miss" is pretty meaningless - as you could have another test later the same day or the next day and the result would be identical

Yes maybe a ban should be applied for repeated misses, but a lwngthy banning for not doing anything actually wrong is beyond stupid imo (if its two/three games for missing a test, then I would be for this - several months ban is something else entirely)
 
Frpm what I remember of the missed test a Man City player did exactly the same within a few weeks and was given a 5k fine. Consistency eh.


Oh apologies, 2k.
 
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Well if it's like the case with the Hamilton player that's all he will probably get. But if it's high levels in him and he's knowingly been doing it then he'll get a raping. And no doubt they will want to make an example etc etc.
 
FrankJH said:
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Is this a serious post? :o

Different substances will stay in your system for varying periods but there's always going to be a cut off point where the levels of that 'drug' in your system drop below the threshold.

If for example you've taken a substance a month ago that is likely to stay in your system for around a month, a days difference could be the difference between failing the test or not. There's good reasons why the tests are carried out randomly Frank, it's not just for a laugh.

And to be clear, I'm talking generally, not about the Ferdinand incident specifically.
DanH84 said:
Frpm what I remember of the missed test a Man City player did exactly the same within a few weeks and was given a 5k fine. Consistency eh.


Oh apologies, 2k.
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Agree regarding consistency, however without knowing the details of either case it's impossible to know whether either punishment was fair.
 
BaZ87 said:
Is this a serious post? :o

Different substances will stay in your system for varying periods but there's always going to be a cut off point where the levels of that 'drug' in your system drop below the threshold.

If for example you've taken a substance a month ago that is likely to stay in your system for around a month, a days difference could be the difference between failing the test or not. There's good reasons why the tests are carried out randomly Frank, it's not just for a laugh.
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Im not saying it shouldnt be random at all

But I also think its unlikely that given how long most of the banned substances stay in a player's system, that a few hours or even a day between when a test was meant to happen and was missed and the test actually occuring to make much of a difference.

(Im not sure how long it takes for the testing personell to find out the results) but given this is only a few days it would be simple enough (in the few if any cases that warranted it) to take a b sample and extrapolate any borderline results.

Ie it would be blatantly unfair to try and say X player's system disipates substance a at this rate, and therefore Y player does the same. But given a fixed player, to say substance a is at a certain differing levels in two different samples, its reasonable to put a valaue on what level it would have been when player SHOULD have been tested.(With most things I believe the dr's can tell when the substance was originally injested either way)

(Surely thats not much of a difference to what they do now - thats the whole point of a and b samples isnt it?
 
"Taking my wifes diet pills" is a feeble excuse for being a filthy disgusting cheat, he should be shot, his head hollowed out and used as a bird house and his corpse cut into little pieces, stuck back together with rat vomit then stuck on a post outside the FA headquarters as a warning to all the other manchester city players.
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As a professional sports person on silly money I would expect he checked EVERYTHING he puts into his body before he consumes it. I certainly would!

Deserves everything he gets for his stupidity.
 
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