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Why do we beat ourselves up so much!

  • 27-05-2011 09:18AM
    #1
    morana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭


    I am astonished to see Kolo Toure from Man City only get a 6 month ban for taking his wifes slimming tablets!!

    Why do we bother?


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  • #2
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    morana wrote: »
    Why do we bother?
    :rolleyes:
    guardian wrote:
    He was doing it because he wanted to be successful.


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,715 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    what has that got to do with cycling?


  • #4
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    what has that got to do with cycling?

    Kolo Toure's wife was fat. Kolo Toure's wife got thin. Kolo Toure liked his fat wife. Kolo Toure took her slimming tablets. Drugs have been a corrosive influence on the sport of cycling for a long time with the authorities apparently unable or unwilling to tackle the problem effectively.

    Simple really.


  • #5
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,520 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    A few mins Googling and I can't even find out which drug it was.

    Stupid lazy journalists.


  • #6
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,715 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    manwithaplan wrote: »
    Kolo Toure's wife was fat. Kolo Toure's wife got thin. Kolo Toure liked his fat wife. Kolo Toure took her slimming tablets.
    ok, so knacker footballer likes fat bints, got that
    manwithaplan wrote: »
    Drugs have been a corrosive influence on the sport of cycling for a long time with the authorities apparently unable or unwilling to tackle the problem effectively.

    Simple really.

    and? every other sport has dealt with and does deal with drugs more effectively than cycling, hardly news.

    I bet there's not as much diving and feigning of injuries in cycling though:P


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  • #7
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Mr. Monster, congratulations on spotting that quoted text part one has bugger all to do with quoted text part two. You can collect your prize on the way out;) .


  • #8
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,950 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    I bet there's not as much diving and feigning of injuries in cycling though:P

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  • #9
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,715 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    manwithaplan wrote: »
    You can collect your prize on the way out;) .

    what is it?


  • #10
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,520 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ok, so knacker footballer likes fat bints, got that

    Classy.


  • #11
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    what is it?

    A cookie


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  • #12
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,715 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    manwithaplan wrote: »
    A cookie

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......................


  • #13
    Lemag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,508 ✭✭✭Lemag


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    ok, so knacker footballer likes fat bints, got that
    He's not English, btw. The corrolation between knackers and footballers is not as high outside of the UK and Ireland. He may not actually be a knacker.


  • #14
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    There's only one thing for it really. That's to allow all the drugs possible in competitive sport. Steroids, Stimulants, Sedatives, Painkillers, booze, Coke, Crack, E, you name it! You could even have a prize for the sportsman who's the most drugged up to the eyeballs.

    That way it's fair for everyone and would probably make soccer and rugby a bit more interesting to boot ;)

    well it is friday...


  • #15
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    studiorat wrote: »
    There's only one thing for it really. That's to allow all the drugs possible in competitive sport. Steroids, Stimulants, Sedatives, Painkillers, booze, Coke, Crack, E, you name it!
    You mean cycling.
    studiorat wrote: »
    You could even have a prize for the sportsman who's the most drugged up to the eyeballs.
    The Maillot Jaune?


  • #16
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    The Maillot Jaune?

    Since it is Friday I think another tangent is allowed...

    I like the look of those "retro" bikes :) certainly as I look over at my current ~2001 pro duraace commuter.


  • #17
    ashleey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭ashleey


    What no helmets?

    (Friday)


  • #18
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    You mean cycling.

    The Maillot Jaune?

    Harsh dude...
    ashleey wrote: »
    What no helmets?

    (Friday)

    No hair either!


  • #19
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    ashleey wrote: »
    What no helmets?

    Something about not having to wear helmets where it's an finish on an ascent, something like that.
    studiorat wrote:
    That way it's fair for everyone and would probably make soccer and rugby a bit more interesting to boot

    What makes you think it's not there already?!


  • #20
    ashleey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭ashleey


    studiorat wrote: »
    Harsh dude...



    No hair either!
    Me or the video?

    On a serious note, if you have a drug free for all like baseball and East German olympiads they will all be dead by thirty and be pumped with drugs as soon as they can walk


  • #21
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    manwithaplan wrote: »
    A cookie

    Cookies are nice so long as you don't get caught with your hand in the jar ;)

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  • #22
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    ashleey wrote: »
    Me or the video?

    On a serious note, if you have a drug free for all like baseball and East German olympiads they will all be dead by thirty and be pumped with drugs as soon as they can walk

    Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs...

    It'd be like Formula 1, think of the research, the sponsorship that big pharma could er-eh inject into the sport.


  • #23
    ashleey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭ashleey


    Was this not mentioned at Farmleigh? They could stop forcing us to pay over the odds for normal stuff from the local pharmacy as a bung to the drug cos setting up here and replace it with a 'drugs in sport' industry.


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