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Spokes
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| CaptainCaveman wrote: | | istepinyards wrote: | | Fergie wrote: | | Big money sports like Football, Golf and Tennis don't get drug tested as the athletes use their lawyers to claim it as an invasion of civil rights. Bit of a joke really. |
No for your information Fergie, Golf does not drug test because it does not feel the need to. Even so there is a drug testing policy that will soon be in place. Recreational drugs will not be included and will not be even tested for. Big difference with golf is it is ruled by the players. Only 3 events a year are not run by the players themselves. |
And golf isn't a real sport anyway, is it? |
I concur, its not a sport. Its a pastime or game.
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istepinyards
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| METZ wrote: | Hah! Golf is a game like chess. Chess is not a sport! Therefore...
Chess players are on betablockers.
And golfers? |
I can guarantee you there is more tree's smoked on the tour by caddies than any other drug the players would do 
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istepinyards
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:07pm Post subject: |
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| Spokes wrote: | | CaptainCaveman wrote: | | istepinyards wrote: | | Fergie wrote: | | Big money sports like Football, Golf and Tennis don't get drug tested as the athletes use their lawyers to claim it as an invasion of civil rights. Bit of a joke really. |
No for your information Fergie, Golf does not drug test because it does not feel the need to. Even so there is a drug testing policy that will soon be in place. Recreational drugs will not be included and will not be even tested for. Big difference with golf is it is ruled by the players. Only 3 events a year are not run by the players themselves. |
And golf isn't a real sport anyway, is it? |
I concur, its not a sport. Its a pastime or game. |
Yep the same as Downhill mountainbiking
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METZ
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There's absolutely no fitness required to hurl yourself down a mountain at high speed and steer a 45lb behemoth over roots rocks drops and jumps.
Like golf.
Where fat drunk old men wander aimlessly around trying to find a little hole in which to put their dimpled ball.
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Spokes
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:17pm Post subject: |
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| METZ wrote: |
Where fat drunk old men wander aimlessly around trying to find a little hole in which to put their dimpled ball. |
Best description I have ever heard of Golf.
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METZ
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:18pm Post subject: |
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Why thank you.
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Lambretta
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:22pm Post subject: |
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| METZ wrote: | | There's absolutely no fitness required remove your brain, point your bike downhill and hang on until you stop moving at the bottom. |
Fixxored. 
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istepinyards
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:28pm Post subject: |
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| Spokes wrote: | | METZ wrote: |
Where fat drunk old men wander aimlessly around trying to find a little hole in which to put their dimpled ball. |
Best description I have ever heard of Golf. |
And very plagiarised The movie Dead Solid Perfect word for word
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METZ
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Wait. The writer plagiarised what i just wrote?! Amazing as I have never even heard of it! But, if it's about golf, then no wonder why I haven't wasted time watching it. I'd rather watch water drip.
And yet I'm wasting all this time and energy poking fun of the GAME of golf.
Yawn.
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Spokes
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| Posted: Fri 18th Jul 2:38pm Post subject: |
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Who would watch a movie about golf?
Its bad enough on tv when they show games.
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istepinyards
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| METZ wrote: | Wait. The writer plagiarised what i just wrote?! Amazing as I have never even heard of it! But, if it's about golf, then no wonder why I haven't wasted time watching it. I'd rather watch water drip.
And yet I'm wasting all this time and energy poking fun of the GAME of golf.
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I can count the games of golf i've watched on one hand and I have worked in the industry for 18 years. Yep its like watching paint dry. Walking the fairways of the world getting paid ridiculous amounts of money for carrying a bag I constantly wondered just why would anyone get up in the morning in the ssiping rain and wind to watch golf. I think its the most boring thing to watch.
Then again I would get up in the middle of the night walk 15kms up the side of a mountain to watch cyclists suffer up a mountain any day of the week.
I would also like to watch a Wimbledon final but despise tennis.
But to Ricco going positive, Millars comments were what should have been said, I was a little disappointed with Cadel and his usual polital correct statement.
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Friendly Llama
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I've watched golf movies - Happy Gilmour anyone?
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METZ
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| istepinyards wrote: | | METZ wrote: | Wait. The writer plagiarised what i just wrote?! Amazing as I have never even heard of it! But, if it's about golf, then no wonder why I haven't wasted time watching it. I'd rather watch water drip.
And yet I'm wasting all this time and energy poking fun of the GAME of golf.
Yawn. |
I can count the games of golf i've watched on one hand and I have worked in the industry for 18 years. Yep its like watching paint dry. Walking the fairways of the world getting paid ridiculous amounts of money for carrying a bag I constantly wondered just why would anyone get up in the morning in the ssiping rain and wind to watch golf. I think its the most boring thing to watch.
Then again I would get up in the middle of the night walk 15kms up the side of a mountain to watch cyclists suffer up a mountain any day of the week.
I would also like to watch a Wimbledon final but despise tennis.
But to Ricco going positive, Millars comments were what should have been said, I was a little disappointed with Cadel and his usual polital correct statement. |
I see. You wouldn't wanna miss seeing a bunch of roadie gafs in lycra.
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istepinyards
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| METZ wrote: | | istepinyards wrote: | | METZ wrote: | Wait. The writer plagiarised what i just wrote?! Amazing as I have never even heard of it! But, if it's about golf, then no wonder why I haven't wasted time watching it. I'd rather watch water drip.
And yet I'm wasting all this time and energy poking fun of the GAME of golf.
Yawn. |
I can count the games of golf i've watched on one hand and I have worked in the industry for 18 years. Yep its like watching paint dry. Walking the fairways of the world getting paid ridiculous amounts of money for carrying a bag I constantly wondered just why would anyone get up in the morning in the ssiping rain and wind to watch golf. I think its the most boring thing to watch.
Then again I would get up in the middle of the night walk 15kms up the side of a mountain to watch cyclists suffer up a mountain any day of the week.
I would also like to watch a Wimbledon final but despise tennis.
But to Ricco going positive, Millars comments were what should have been said, I was a little disappointed with Cadel and his usual polital correct statement. |
I see. You wouldn't wanna miss seeing a bunch of roadie gafs in lycra. |
Nope Sam Hill,Both the Atherton boys, 3/4 of the Downhillers at the worlds turn me on too
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sifter
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| musket wrote: | | noel_whiteside wrote: | Don't know if anyone knows the ansewrs but I've got a few questions, and I want to have a bit of a rant.
When do the riders get into drugs? Is it just when they make it into the PoTour teams that they are first offered, or is it while they are still juniors and to young to be able to stand up to the national coach who is telling them to take stuff. Are all the juniors at the worlds at the moment being tested? When you get below Protour level is there as much positive tests happening as there appears to be with the Protour riders?
Why don't all the clean guys start to say things about their team mates doing drugs. If you are sharing a room with someone who is injecting themselves every night, you can't really miss it. Surrly some of the clean guys could go under cover and tell the team doctors they want to win at any costs. When they are then put in contact with the drug suppliers they should be telling all to the world. If there are clean guys in the pro peleton who know what is going on but just keep quiet they are as guilty as the drug takers of destroying our sports reputation.
At least they are catching people in cycling. My other sport is football/soccer where no-one is failing drug tests. There is 10 times the money in football so the temptation to drug cheat must be so much higher. Have any of the cycling doctors who have been involved in supplying drugs worked in other sports that havn't been having loads of failed tests? The only sports that are getting pinged over and over are minor sports (cycling, athletics, weightlifting), which don't have enough money to keep things quiet. Football is having lots of match fixing and transfer fraud cases where the police have become involved. If they are involved in these things, some of them must be stupid enough to give drugs a try. |
This might be a very good post, but to be honest, I'll be damned if I can read it without having an epileptic fit.
Dents - Sporting Fraud is a criminal offence in France. Using prescription drugs without one is also an offence. |
I'm just catching up after a couple of days away, and musket, you wrote it before I could even articulate it in my mind...
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