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#Post#: 2013--------------------------------------------------
Re: O/T Wasps' Ashley Johnson given backdated ban for failed
drugs test
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: July 28, 2018, 3:26 pm
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How would you know if you had?
#Post#: 2020--------------------------------------------------
Re: O/T Wasps' Ashley Johnson given backdated ban for failed
drugs test
DIR By: RodneyRegis
Date: July 29, 2018, 3:16 am
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I apply a rigorous programme of testing just in case.
#Post#: 2066--------------------------------------------------
Re: O/T Wasps' Ashley Johnson given backdated ban for failed
drugs test
DIR By: thomh
Date: July 30, 2018, 4:44 am
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--- Quote from: Boonie link ---
>
> What a mistake to make! Wonder if he's taken any other of his
wife's pills by accident?! ;) Seriously though - it is a bit of
a minefield out there, but this shows that the testing does
actually work.
>
--- End Quote ---
Being cynical, I would say this shows that the testing works
when a player doesn't realise that they have ingested a
particular substance and therefore takes no steps to make it
undetectable. Also possible that this is an easier-to-detect
substance than a lot of what's out there (though I've no idea).
Not trying to cast aspersions on Johnson or anyone else in
particular at all - his story in this case seems solid - but I
wouldn't take one positive test for a random substance that the
player took by accident as proof that there isn't a wider PEDs
problem out there. For a start, the amount of testing in
premiership rugby is fairly pitiful (I think it works out as
less than one test per player per season, whereas a cyclist who
leads the tour de france from day 1 would get tested 21 times in
3 weeks.).
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