Come on Brojos, top of the page announcement about the X-Games, does anyone besides teenage boys watch the X-Games? This is really pathetic journalism from a "running" website.
Come on Brojos, top of the page announcement about the X-Games, does anyone besides teenage boys watch the X-Games? This is really pathetic journalism from a "running" website.
Guess guess wrote:
XFActord wrote:Who cares if an X Games athlete is taking PEDs? Not sure how it would be an real benefit. I don't think they need to test. I don't see where you think they should. Should they start testing at other made-for-tv competitions like the Amazing Race? You're wasting time.
I care because some of the athletes are competing at Olympic sports. They should be subject to year round WADA testing. I don't care if they are smoking pot but if someone is taking steroids (or stimulants during competition) they should get caught.
If they are in Olympic sports as well then they already do get drug tested. Amazing how many pu$$ies on this site.
How many people would get tripped up for smoking five leaf clovers?
XFActord wrote:
Who cares if an X Games athlete is taking PEDs?
Apparently the drug obsessed Johnson brothers.
Why would anyone give a crap if participants in the X Games were using anything?
This is an odd issue to take on for a running website. I agree ESPN is a joke and has been for some time, but there are countless other reasons for that besides this one.
The X Games are nothing more than a spectacle produced purely for TV entertainment. They are closer to an entertainment competition like Amrican Idol than to a professional sports league that has competitive integrity to uphold. I believe all the competitions are free and open to the public to attend in person and you aren't paying any extra to watch them on cable tv. There's not really a paying consumer that is expecting the athletes to be clean. They rely solely on ad revenue and I doubt the sponsors want negative press from positive drug tests that the fans don't care about or at least have no perceived impact on the entertainment value.
Like other posters have stated, if they are Olympic competitors they will get tested via those channels.
Troll Poster wrote:
Rats. "The Flying Genetically Modified Tomato" doesn't fit as a poster name.
POD.
I don't care about the X Games. I take them as seriously as I take that guy with the backwards running WR.
I was watching The Bachelor the other night (such a great show) and I CAN NOT BELIEVE that ABC doesn't do ANY in-competition testing on those guys!
It's like they don't even care that they're just sipping booze right during the event that was created for on-TV entertainment!
Of_Kings_And_Prophets wrote:
He lives in the bubble called humanity, civilization, America and distance running, which depends upon morals, cooperation, idealism and values, discernment and beauty, community and love and intelligently designing our society to discourage bad behavior.
Without a doubt, we need more peace, integrity and constraints on bad behaviour. I absolutely agree with you.
Integrity
http://features.thesundaytimes.co.uk/web/public/2015/the-doping-scandal/index.html#/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/10377459/Jamaica-may-have-failed-to-test-sprint-stars-for-six-months-building-up-to-London-2012-Olympics-says-Wada.htmlBeauty
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2011/08/unbreakable.htmlCooperation
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/08/russia-expulsion-doping-report-iaafIAAF/USATF does not support your ideals.
wejo wrote:
If multi million sports competitions start thinking drug testing isn't important we have no chance. This isn't some local road race with a limited budget. It is a major event for ESPN that is receiving subsidies from the Norwegian government.
A simpler solution would be for governments to start taxing sporting events a small amount and using that for drug testing.
Who are the "we" in your first sentence?
Sports usually have governing bodies that perform their drug testing.
How long did it take for baseball to have any testing - 100 years?
If "we" means track then we are not affected by this because we have testing.
Unless you are concerned about losing top runners to the X Games.
We know drug testing isn't effective anyway.
I think it should be done in track because people will take risks and hurt themselves otherwise, but it isn't effective.
wejo wrote:
I applaud Rojo's sance.
If multi million sports competitions start thinking drug testing isn't important we have no chance. This isn't some local road race with a limited budget. It is a major event for ESPN that is receiving subsidies from the Norwegian government.
While I agree with this, this gets back to the failure to define the issues well. The issue is not Disney producing fantasy sports, it's the transfer of wealth from public to private under less than ideal circumstances. If they called it a entertainment industry subsidy, I'd be fine with that.
The ARD report proves that testing alone is valueless. Force transparency and criminalize the corrupt behaviour on sports federation officials. I'm including the NCAA, not just IOC related sports that require much more transparency.
wejo wrote:
I applaud Rojo's sance.
What a shock.
I applaud Rojo's stance.
If multi million sports competitions start thinking drug testing isn't important we have no chance. This isn't some local road race with a limited budget. It is a major event for ESPN that is receiving subsidies from the Norwegian government.
A simpler solution would be for governments to start taxing sporting events a small amount and using that for drug testing.
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
The ARD report proves that testing alone is valueless. Force transparency and criminalize the corrupt behaviour on sports federation officials. I'm including the NCAA, not just IOC related sports that require much more transparency.
Just because in competition testing doesn't catch many people doesn't mean it is worthless. It prevents people from openly doping in a competition. The more sophisticated people can still dope.
I was about to say this is signaling to athletes, "go ahead and dope you won't be tested."
Some may take the X Games up on this offer. However, since many of the X Games sports are olympic sports, WADA should come in and test people on its own out of competition. Who knows they might catch more people because athletes will let their guard down.
It's entertainment. Let them do whatever they want.
wejo wrote:
However, since many of the X Games sports are olympic sports,
I still haven't figured that out!!
Our sport has no discrete, fully independent drug testing, so why the criticism of the X-Games?
No.
nbskis wrote:
The guys winning the marquee events (ski and snowboard superpipe and slope, skateboarders etc) are out there training every bit as hard as any pro runner.
Gravity Sports are NOT athletics.
Why is pot a PED?
espn is a joke wrote:
ESPN is a joke now. They have pro wrestling shows as well as "e-sports." Shell of what it used to be. John Skipper has run it into the ground.
While everyone knows wrestling is a quack, what's wrong with e-sports may I ask?