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GAA players and drug testing?

  • 13-09-2012 9:30pm
    #1
    Hitchens
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    Kilkenny defender Jackie Tyrrell was held back for two hours by drug testers after last Sunday's drawn All-Ireland hurling final.

    Dehydrated so he couldn't provide a sample. Players providing huge entertainment, for no monetary reward, being treated like this? Not right IMO!


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  • #2
    jive
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    It is right. There needs to be some form of drug testing in the GAA so that there is some deterrent to anyone who does decide to cheat. I can't see many getting caught because the testing obviously won't be particularly sophisticated, but believe there has to be some form of testing in place.

    Assuming that no players get any monetary reward then just think about the folks who missed out on playing in Croke Park or just inter county level because a lad on the team who was on drugs took his place in the panel. At least if there is some kind of testing in place it might deter a certain amount of people from taking performance enhancing drugs.


  • #3
    Bizzum
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    Hitchens wrote: »
    Dehydrated so he couldn't provide a sample.

    Having left every drop on the pitch, the last thing your body wants to do is provide a sample in a bottle. So you end up lorrying into the fluids and all the time your cooling down and hoping to squeeze out a drop.


  • #4
    gaelic cowboy
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    It's only a matter of time before someone eventually gets caught.


  • #5
    wicklowwonder
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    Hitchens wrote: »
    Kilkenny defender Jackie Tyrrell was held back for two hours by drug testers after last Sunday's drawn All-Ireland hurling final.

    Dehydrated so he couldn't provide a sample. Players providing huge entertainment, for no monetary reward, being treated like this? Not right IMO!

    Players and fans know the rules before they line out on the field. There has to be a zero toerence with drugs if players or fans have an issue it would be in everyone's best interest if they turned their back on the sport. Look at the joke cycling is and a lot of drug rumours around the Athletics at the Olympics with some experts claiming 60% of athletes involved in some sort of doping. GAA is far from this but still we cannot let it creep in at all.

    On a separate note do players partake in out of competition drug testing. Also as amateurs is there different rules around recreational drugs? Just curious.


  • #6
    paddy no 11
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    Has to happen, its bad enough not having out of competition testing.


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  • #7
    dastardly00
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    According to Hoganstand.com, the KK sub Paddy Hogan and the Galway player Johnny Coen were also tested (it doesn't say how long it took them to produce a urine sample :pac:).

    I'm quite surprised that only 3 players were tested. Since it was the final, I would have thought that far more players would have been tested.


  • #8
    mushykeogh
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    wicklowwonder wrote: »
    On a separate note do players partake in out of competition drug testing. Also as amateurs is there different rules around recreational drugs? Just curious.

    Yes to out of competition, no differences in rules re recreational drugs.


  • #9
    rebel girl 15
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    GAA are given funding by the Irish Sports Council, so the GAA follow the World Anti Doping agency guidelines, same as professional athletes. It is normally 2 players from each team that get drug tested after a game, but they can also get tested during training, testers can arrive and demand to test three to four players. This has been in place since 2001

    The difference between amateur and professional athletes is the fact that the professionals have to submit their diary to the ISC, so that they can be tested at random in and out of competition - basically the drug testers can call to where ever the athlete is and demand a sample. Amateur teams have to submit their training schedule to the ISC to drug testers can come and test only when the team is training together

    In 2010, there was 92 tests completed. Since 2001, there was only one player who failed a drugs test, but was cleared subsequently because the medication he was taking for for a medical problem, and not as a performance enhancer.

    Last year there was 15 teams that did not show up for testing, due to training venues being changed due to water logged pitches http://www.independent.ie/national-news/at-least-15-gaa-teams-fail-to-show-up-for-drug-tests-in-last-two-years-2990214.html


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