emmsie69 wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Jajon wrote:

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Strongbow wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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This is the FT article on Kicker

www.ft.com/content/10622850-b86b-4cad-88cf-b4d021a6920d

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 First time it let me read the whole article, second time it wants me to sign up to an account. So it may or may not work for anyone trying it ! 

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 Doesn't work for me - takes me straight to a paywall. Any help welcome as I'd like to read it.

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 https://archive.ph/0MPiq - this should work!

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Thanks, Jajon (& Jon).  A fascinating article.  I just wish the journo knew the difference between a translator & an interpreter.  I started my working life as a translator (dealing with the written word), only on very rare occasions acting as an ad hoc interpreter (dealing with the spoken word) at meetings.  It's a totally different discipline & one with which I never felt comfortable.

Off topic, would you mind explaining how the Archive "thingy" works, please?

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 To use archive today copy and paste the url of the article you want to read into archive today and it will show the full article in over 90% of cases

https://archive.ph/

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Thanks, emmsie.  Have tried it with a Times article about Cam on the Wimbledon men's singles thread & it seems to have worked. 

Karatsev lost his doubles opener in Stuttgart 4 and 0, fwiw.

Bárbara Gatica has been banned for 3 years relating to a match in 2016. She is of course also provisionally suspended for failing a drug test at the same tournament as Tara, for which she continues to proclaim her innocence.

https://www.itia.tennis/news/sanctions/gatica-three-years-ban/

In a statement Gatica said (Google translate)
Sometimes we make mistakes where we don't know the consequences until a few years later... Today one of the worst mistakes I made in my life comes to light, at a time when I was very young and without experience , of which I am extremely sorry. Now all my dreams, those of my family, my team and all the people who supported me are kept in a box for a few years".

This 2022 has really hit me very hard... doping, which was something very unfair, of which I am totally innocent ."

-- Edited by Lambda on Thursday 15th of December 2022 09:02:06 PM

To be honest, I felt a little sad for her - it's quite a moving speech

There's a parents' blog which outlines the awful pressures that young players (and especially young women) are put under on tour - they often travel alone, or with another young player of their age, they're barely more than kids, there's talk of wildcards being offered for sexual favours, of them being expected to 'wine and dine' with the sponsors, of being backed into a corner and not knowing how to react, and of the ITF not really wanting to know - it's really quite believable that she found herself in a very awkward position and didn't know how to deal with it.
Which is not to say there shouldn't be sanctions - there should - but a one-off offence, as a real youngster, is very different from a systematic abuse from a player in their mid- or late-20s say.

Not a tennis player but the  drugs ban of a former British boxing champion Amir Khan. He suggested that the banned substance  may have got into his system from "shaking hands." Apparently there was a whole crowd of people in his dressing room after his fight and he was a friendly guy who always  shakes hands.  This is certainly an original excuse following on from some of the tennis players excuses.

I should have put this post in the doping again. That topic doesn't seem to have cropped up lately.

-- Edited by GAMEOVER on Wednesday 5th of April 2023 10:58:54 AM

Thank heavens we arent snooker !

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/65641122

Whats the reason Tsurenkos coach is being investigated ? Anyone know the background?