General Sports Thread

Brook was there ringside......so I think their final payday will happen also.

 

I hope Brook batters him.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/47996644

This is pathetic from the authorities and discriminatory as well. Why are they going after Kenyans? Why don't they test to Poles as well as they seem to produce dodgy athletes who somehow find a super charged finish in the last 200 metres of an 800m or 1500m race? That to my mind is very suspect. In addition there could be people in the labs who have been told to sabotage the sample of Kenyans. Kenyans and the other East Africans have no need to dope as they are naturally much better than everyone else.

 

Are they going after Kenyans?...everyone is prone to being tested. And there was that bit at the end about being tipped off by drug testing officials and paying them....hardly innocent as he must have asked them to tip him off. Just because Kenyans are good at distance running (which they are) doesn't mean that one wouldn't cheat to gain an advantage over other competitors including his countrymen.

 

I smell a conspiracy...

 

Apart from Russians, who was the last white athlete found guilty of doping? I feel this testing process is very discriminatory given that the guys found to have transgressed are Kenyans, Afro-Americans, or Afro-British.

 

Interesting that neither Nadal nor Djokovic reached the final of the Monte Carlo Open. Unlike 10 years ago when they could win all the clay tournaments between them, they realise they have to pace themselves to be ready for the French Open?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/48005165
GB women win first Fed Cup promotion for 26 years as Boulter and Konta win.

 

Pompey have come from behind to lead Coventry.

 

Yes .

I have said for a while now I think they will go up .

That's not saying I want them to .

Luton & Sunderland for me , but Sunderland seem to be off the boil .

 

These are quite fast …

 

Feck me, they’re mental.

 

Thanks to this handy list, top-level non-Russian/non-African heritage track athletes found guilty of doping in the last five years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_athletics

Hanna Drabenia, Miguel Ángel Gamonal, Antonio David Jiménez, Nemanja Kojić, Anastassya Kudinova, Inessa Kravets, Wioletta Kryza, Amine Laâlou, Yousef Masrahi, Ángel Mullera, Bertrand Moulinet, Lisa Nemec, Josephine Onyia, Anália Rosa, Hristina Risteska, Mariya Ryemyen, Anastasiya Soprunova, Laïla Traby, Gladys Tejeda, Nikolai Vedehin, Rhys Williams, Gareth Warburton, Yin Anna.

Probably not a comprehensive tally.

 

Practice 1 of the Grand prix is cancelled due to a manhole cover being sucked up and damaged the Williams car underside .......all the manhole covers need to be checked and made safe now as because the cars are so low now ,they indeed can/will suck up the covers.

 

FAO LTL and any others .

 

Nice to see he’s dominating the weekend so far. I did mention he’s a bit handy round this track.

 

He won 2 years ago just a couple of days after his Father passed away .

 

Correct. And he has a point to prove to Ferrari now. You’re backing the wrong driver, chaps.

 

They certainly are

 

Gutted for Leclerc today. He'll learn from mistakes like that, and it will make him better. Interested to see what he can do from 10th. Should be a exciting race!