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So...Serena Williams at Wimbledon - Was she high?

  • 02-07-2014 9:47pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭


    For those who don't know... Yesterday Serena Williams was in a Doubles match along with her sister, Venus, at Wimbledon.
    But Serena had to retire from the match due to a "viral illness" and well .... just watch.




    Crazy to see a talented professional athlete such as her be in a state like that. She claims "viral illness" but ... erm yeah right :pac:
    So what do you think? Do you buy the whole viral illness or you think something else... perhaps herbal, perhaps prescription based (etc) was afoot?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Off her tits by the look of it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Definitely heroin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Whatever was the problem she was off her head anyway. Whether it was weed or lemsip she was high as a kite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    If she was that sick, I would have imagined she'd be sweating more. The last time I was out of it because of an illness I was actually dehydrated in the mornings because of all the sweatin......just an observation like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Nodin wrote: »
    If she was that sick, I would have imagined she'd be sweating more. The last time I was out of it because of an illness I was actually dehydrated in the mornings because of all the sweatin......just an observation like.

    Did you win your doubles matches?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    Alcohol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Man Flu


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think she was sick, especially when she burst into tears, probably felt like ****e and wanted to be home in bed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭A Greedy Algorithm


    Performance Enhancing Drugs. To many years of abuse has made her useless and has completely run her body down to this.*


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    I'd love to see her tits, they're proper bazookas.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Testosterone high.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Performance Enhancing Drugs. To many years of abuse has made her useless and has completely run her body down to this.*

    You pretty much copied the youtube comment left by someone :pac:

    But in all seriousness. Could be the case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Did you win your doubles matches?


    No. Nor did I start moving furniture into the hallway in the morning as I had planned to, because it was so big and all that space I'd never seen before wasn't being used.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭A Greedy Algorithm


    You pretty much copied the youtube comment left by someone :pac:

    But in all seriousness. Could be the case.


    I really didn't copy any comment. But yeah high doses of PE D's and the pressure of the tournament along with the warm London sun = melt down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Don't they get piss tested at Wimbledon?


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Aren't these athletes tested in competition?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,463 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Goofballs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,118 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    FearDark wrote: »
    I'd love to see her tits, they're proper bazookas.

    I'd love to see more posts like this on the Tennis forum


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Mr_Red


    Very sad to watch. hope its not serious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    That's how I play tennis without drugs


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    She slogged long and hard enough, probably five or six lifetimes worth of hard work and training. If she's decided to "let her hair down" a bit, I'd say she's earned the right to do that. Possibly retiring quietly first, in a blaze of glory would have been a better strategy though...Though maybe the woman did have a bug. Either way, whatever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Oryx wrote: »
    Aren't these athletes tested in competition?

    They are. But it's well known about athletes using masking agents. These products cost ALOT of money. But Tennis players like Serena aren't short for a few bob.


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Don't they get piss tested at Wimbledon?


    Competitors are warned about the risks of taking supplements.
    Anti-Doping testing will be carried out at The Championships this year in accordance with the 2011 ITF Tennis Anti-Doping Programme.
    Players may be notified of their selection for sample collection at any time or place. Players will normally be chaperoned from the time between notification and arrival at the Doping Control Station.
    All anti-doping testing is carried out independently of the tournament organisers.

    http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/about_aeltc/201205091336572257853.html

    Id say that after she came off court, she had more pricks than an aging hooker


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,463 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    She slogged long and hard enough, probably five or six lifetimes worth of hard work and training. If she's decided to "let her hair down" a bit, I'd say she's earned the right to do that. Possibly retiring quietly first, in a blaze of glory would have been a better strategy though...Though maybe the woman did have a bug. Either way, whatever.

    She and Venus lost their Sister during a gang shoot out in Compton a few years ago.. pretty traumatic times for them I'd say.. They've been through the mill.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Her team would hardly have let her set foot on court if she was off her head. There's enough speculation about her using PEDs without that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Venus is winning the "cool sister" award there though. Maybe not so much off-camera?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭SaveOurLyric


    Isnt it usually just "an over the counter cough medicine" ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Isnt it usually just "an over the counter cough medicine" ?

    No, that causes arousal on aeroplanes, not clumsiness.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    xzanti wrote: »
    She and Venus lost their Sister during a gang shoot out in Compton a few years ago.. pretty traumatic times for them I'd say.. They've been through the mill.

    What were they doing at a gang shootout in Compton?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Expect to hear of her checking in to rehab sometime in the next 6 months or so. She is clearly off her head on something and if she was using it during an important match it screams problem.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    She is one of the greatest female tennis players in history. You couldn't play that bad on drugs.

    The girl has 32 major titles, incl 13 doubles titles with venus and the pair are unbeaten in Grand Slam finals.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Looks like me when I start/stop anti depressants.


    Minus Wimbledon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I seriously doubt it's weed. Come on. She didn't look well to me at all, and not because of anything to do with drugs. Viruses, in my experience anyway, do make you dizzy and weak, not to mention aches and pains all over the body. I think people just like to think that she's on PEDs and so jump straight to that conclusion when she doesn't look herself on court. The whole scene looked quite awful actually. She looked very unwell and clearly upset by the whole thing.

    PEDs are a problem in tennis, for sure. Several players, including Roger Federer, have appealed for more transparency in testing, and Rafael Nadal has been dogged by drug rumours for years. However, currently, players do get tested for PEDs during Grand Slams (after they get knocked out), so I think Serena was probably thoroughly tested after this. I also doubt that a combination of heat, pressure and PEDs caused her to break down. If that was the case, surely it would have happened long before this? They compete in major tournaments in the US and Australia at the height of summer, climates much hotter than the UK, and she's won plenty of times there.

    To be honest, I think it is just what it seems. Bizarre, yes, and she probably should not have even been allowed to start the game after her attempt to warm up, but I think she is just ill.


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nodin wrote: »
    If she was that sick, I would have imagined she'd be sweating more. The last time I was out of it because of an illness I was actually dehydrated in the mornings because of all the sweatin......just an observation like.

    A person with a high temperature can be quite uncoordinated and disoriented, and won't sweat.

    She probably has a bad virus and had a high temp. She looks unwell, she says shes unwell, and as far as I know they're drug tested before and during competition. So she's most likely unwell. Poor girl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    stimpson wrote: »
    What were they doing at a gang shootout in Compton?

    The sister got caught in the crossfire. Apparently the gunman was attempting to shoot someone else, and she got shot instead. Also, they're from Compton. It'd be more surprising if they'd never experienced gang-related sh*t in their lives.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Could be cake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Could be cake.

    a bad cake, like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    The cake is a lie.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Cake is a new legal drug which first appeared in Prague. Cake, a yellow death bullet, is a bisturbile cranabolic amphetamoid. Its active ingredient, Dimesmeric Anderson Phosphate, is a psychoactive compound which stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Yeah, air must be thin up there - she's that tall... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    stimpson wrote: »
    Cake is a new legal drug which first appeared in Prague. Cake, a yellow death bullet, is a bisturbile cranabolic amphetamoid. Its active ingredient, Dimesmeric Anderson Phosphate, is a psychoactive compound which stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon.


    Nope.

    If you look at the symptons she was on Clarky Cat.

    It'll make your arm feel like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    She was clearly having a roid rage.

    Ben affleck did a factual docu drama on this subject
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FvlIwuQBO8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,769 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Nope.

    If you look at the symptons she was on Clarky Cat.

    It'll make your arm feel like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon.

    Why would she take clarky cat? She wouldn't want to end up like a bloody piano dentist


  • Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bodysnatcher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Candie wrote: »
    A person with a high temperature can be quite uncoordinated and disoriented, and won't sweat.

    She probably has a bad virus and had a high temp. She looks unwell, she says shes unwell, and as far as I know they're drug tested before and during competition. So she's most likely unwell. Poor girl.
    Will she hand a doctor's note to the umpire the next time she plays


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    A case of high-velocity explosive scutters?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    Top athletes can experience a drop in form.
    Confidence can play a big part.
    One day soon she will be able to hit a ball, some luck might even come into it the first time. But having hit the ball once she will believe that she will never miss again. Concious thought will leave the equation and she will be able to confidently clear the net with serves. And win majors.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    jamesbere wrote: »
    Will she hand a doctor's note to the umpire the next time she plays

    Well she'll try to, but will end up dropping it a couple of feet to his left.


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