Frankly, a pretty reckless assessment. Instead of opening up a side debate, I'll just say I disagree strongly, and I don't know how a quicker-than-expected comeback deserves such a stigma. Especially, to such a transparent Cricketer such as Warne.
Quicker than expected comeback while testing positive for a banned substance certainly deserves the stigma. Unless of course you think its just a coincidence (which, I suppose, is your right).
Because I believe him, and what he said on Parkinson, if you remember. He had a dislocated shoulder, it's not like he needed steroids to get over it. I also remember he was supposed to be rested in the initial stages of the WC and to play later.
Add to the fact that Warne played on Aus pitches suited to pace bowling/batting. Whilst Murali plays on pitches conductive to spin day in and day out.
Very silly statement if it's intended to be serious. It's not going to give someone great cricket skills, but in sports that are more reliant on speed and stamina it can turn a very average athlete into a great one.
And the first thing I said is that I don't. But he did take a masking agent, and he did recover from an injury suspiciously fast. What you choose to believe after that is up to you. I'll choose to believe that he is no different from the hundreds of others who were caught (from Marion Jones to Barry Bonds) doing something to maintain and excel at their livelihood. You may choose to believe something different. The only thing not in dispute is that he took a masking agent - everything else is obviously conjecture.
You said it deserves the stigma. I don't see how stating it in that way that you are embarking on conjecture. It doesn't deserve it by any stretch of the imagination. It's a consequence, but what has he done to deserve the stigma? Just by coming back early? It makes him look guilty without any proof.
He took a banned substance which was proven and was banned for a year from - that's what he did to deserve the stigma. The rest is obviously circumstantial. He was smart enough to take a masking agent on top of whatever else he may or may not have been taking, so it'll remain that way. The fact that he was banned for an illegal substance is enough to cause a stigma in my mind. It's obvious this is not enough to cause such in your mind, and that's fine.
They had every right to become bright with light?
I agree. The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in his book also heavily criticized Warne and the Australian board on one of the worst excuses for a positive drug test ever. Warne recovered magically in twice as quick the time as experts expected from a shoulder injury. Warne deserves the stigma.
A metaphoric term for exceptional anger. "Incandescent with rage".
For what else it is used?
It is also used to lose weight?For what else it is used?
Indications of HCT (Hydrochlorothiazide) are
1. hypertension
2. Congestive cardiac failure
3. Idipathic hypercalciuria
4. Dihydropyridine induced edema and in few very rare disorders.
Which one of the above Warne did have to use HCT? He was definietly using it to mask the anabolic steroids from the immunosorbant assay (which is used to detect them qualititavely).
Very poor attempt indeed.
Yep. Considering he got the pills from mummy dearest, I am pretty sure he wasn't using it for the listed usages.It is also used to lose weight?
Haha, right. Confessing to something after being tested positive hardly shows anything. And he says he got it from mommy dearest, that doesn't mean you should buy it. What's he going to say? Well, there was this guy from BALCO.....
Without having being tested positive in his B samples it would have never gotten out. He did something he didn't have to do and told ACB early and withdrew.
He got the Parkinson story wrong so he is a drug-cheat? Are you okay? If what he said about the courts proving he didn't mask anything is wrong, don't you think that too would have been mentioned in the above article? Um, yeah.
Sounds much more innocuous.
The purpose of a masking agent is to mask those performance enhancing drugs - thats why it's illegal. We'll never know how much of those he took, if any.
Um, no. He didnt just 'get the story wrong', he deliberately misrepresented and revised facts on national television to downplay his misdeeds and a sorry episode in cricket history, which shows how much his opinion can be trusted.
It's irrelevant. Sportsmen should know what they're putting into their bodies. Whether their aunt, brother or mother gave it is irrelevant. They don't know what Warne can take, he does. So his own acceptance makes him accountable. When you put forth such a case, whether it sounds innocuous or not it's disregarded.
Exactly. Innocent till proven guilty.
He would deliberately get the story wrong...one that is already on the record...to revise which facts? Everyone already knows about them. He would have been high to think he could try.
Where did you get the bit about it being unprecedented? Injuries occur all the time and new treatments always arise. It was thought Lillee would never recover from his stress-factures.