Wimbledon Final

It is indeed a reyt match so far.

 

I went to buy a tennis bat once, and the woman serving said its a racket!.
And I said yeah your right, it blood*dy well is at that price!.

 

Wow that half volley through is legs by sinner Jesus you what.

 

Alcaraz is rattled wouldn’t,t right him off yet though.

 

The level of these 2 players is far, far above the others on tour.

Incredible quality of tennis and it doesn’t matter if they’ve won the last 10 championships or it’s their first win, quality tennis is quality tennis.

 

And to think Sinner got through the other day when he was getting hammered, only for his opponent to retire injured.

 

And to think he his also a drugs cheat as well. Tim Herman made me laff before play started when he said they are both great players and great ambassadors to the sport!....how that’s work when one has had a drugs ban?

 

He's not a 'drugs cheat', have a read about it.

 

Nobody knows what actually happened. Unless the authorities catch someone with a needle in their arse there's basically no way to prove that a positive result is from intentional doping. So when an athlete tests positive all they have to do is costruct a narrative that might have happened and can't be disproven, and the authorities have to accept it. Hence you get stories about massage transfer, contaminated beef, uncastrated boar meat, careless use of nasal sprays etc. etc.

 

Why he banned for 3 month then?

 

WADA accepted that he did not use drugs as a performance enhancer and that it was through contamination during therapy. It was a minute trace amount found. Sinner accepted the 3 month ban as a resolution to prevent it dragging on for even longer (appeal to CAS etc). He accepted the findings of the test results and that ultimately it was a strict liability, it was in his body.

I just don't think it's fair to label him a 'drugs cheat' when there's so much more to it.

Edit - I will add as well, as a general point, when you look at the absolutely massive list of banned substances, it can't be easy living your life as a professional athlete and keeping 'clean'. You even have to be careful with proper prescribed medication that folk use for normal every day ailments, and things you eat that most folk think nowt of.

 

I think you're being very naive. How many doping bans have there been where actual intentional doping has been proven? Don't you think it's convenient that pretty much every every sportsperson who gets caught has an innocent explanation?

As a barometer, cycling has probably the most stringent testing, modest financial reward (at least as far as professional sports goes) and is mucky as owt. Do you really think that in sports with more to gain and looser testing everyone is playing fairly?

It's been confirmed that Lance Armstrong literally used similar explanations to cover up his doping e.g. "the positive test was caused by a cream for saddle sores and nobody realised what was in it." Nope, just plain old doping.

 

Chris Frome and the giant inhaler

 

You can say I'm being naive, in this instance I'll say you're being overly cynical.

 

Fantastic match, some great tennis by both. Deserved winner though.

 

Brilliant from Sinner , what a player

 

His return power was something else today

 

definitely. So powerful.

 

A very classy opponent too…….

 

Shame we didn’t get the five sets I expected, but Sinner was comfortably the better player on the day.