JonH comes home wrote:

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 fyi, there are a few posts on this separately in the Doping Again thread on the general discussion forum of this site.

The tainted multi vitamins argument sounds like Greg Rusedski all over again. I never believed Greg and I dont believe Jarry

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In defence of Rusedski, WADA rules no longer consider his nandrolone result a positive test. The amount he tested for was miniscule (in comparison to other athletes who were caught using nandrolone to dope) and upon later investigation it was eventually found that the elevated level he and many other ATP players tested for, could be produced by entirely natural processes. The nandrolone doping test has since been modified accordingly.

I learned this from a blog post of Richard Ings who was ATP head of anti-doping at the time. 

EddietheEagle wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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 fyi, there are a few posts on this separately in the Doping Again thread on the general discussion forum of this site.

The tainted multi vitamins argument sounds like Greg Rusedski all over again. I never believed Greg and I dont believe Jarry

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In defence of Rusedski, WADA rules no longer consider his nandrolone result a positive test. The amount he tested for was miniscule (in comparison to other athletes who were caught using nandrolone to dope) and upon later investigation it was eventually found that the elevated level he and many other ATP players tested for, could be produced by entirely natural processes. The nandrolone doping test has since been modified accordingly.

I learned this from a blog post of Richard Ings who was ATP head of anti-doping at the time. 

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 Fair play, thanks eddie. Apologies to Greg. 

JonH comes home wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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QF:  Jürgen Melzer & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (AUT/FRA) CR 52 (36+16) (*) vs Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski CR 56 (25+31)

(*) & a combined age of 74 (38+36)!  That said, they comfortably (3 & 3) beat Lloyd Harris & JPS, who had replaced the top seeds, Cabal & Farah, who withdrew because the latter fell ill...

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Not illness at all, it seems.  According to this morning's Metro, they won't be playing in the Oz Open, as Farah has tested positive for an anabolic steroid, a result he blames on a substance found in Colombian meat which he said "can distort doping tests".  In addition, Nicolás Jarry of Chile has been provisionally suspended for failing a drug test during the DC.  He puts it down to "tainted multivitamins"! 

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 fyi, there are a few posts on this separately in the Doping Again thread on the general discussion forum of this site

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I had no idea & didn't go looking (rarely have that much time).  It was never my intention to trigger a debate on the issue of drug-taking, merely to set the record straght, as the PDF version of the draw sheet had attributed the pair's withdrawal to Cabal's illness!  Maybe I was putting 2 & 2 together & getting 5...   

Dan is 4-6 6-3 *0-1.

Edited to correct autocorrect.

Babfive wrote:

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Can is 4-6 6-3 *0-1

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 Dan lost in 3 but put up a decent showing and has had 7 matches in oz since season started, so maybe not a bad thing with the AO in a few days. Should be well honed now. 

JonH comes home wrote:

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Jamie and neal and joe and rajeev all win. 

 

With luke winning in auckland, that's 4 winners so far  counting Jamie and neal as 2 of the 11!

Dan, heather both in play still in singles, heather to play doubles later and harriet to come. Still be happy with 5 or 6 wins in total! 

 

Ps jonny also won doubles in bendigo so there is 5 winners, admittedly all doubles !

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 16th of January 2020 08:20:47 AM

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 And heather and harriet make it 7 wins overnight , and heather still to play doubles. Great night.