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Allegation: 150 UK sportsmen prescribed banned drugs

ChizzChizz
edited April 2016 in Other Football and Sports
This is a potentially damaging story. And quite complex. It's going to take some un-picking.

1. There is an accusation that a doctor - Mark Bonar - sold performance-enhancing drugs to 150 UK athletes, including an England cricketer and Premier League footballers.
thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7046126/Inquiry-ordered-into-UK-Anti-Doping-watchdog-after-doctor-prescribed-banned-drugs-to-150-sportsmen.html

2. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has ordered an enquiry into the UK Anti-Doping watchdog.

3. Mr Whittingdale is Vice Chairman of the 1922 Committee. (Yes, VICE Chairman). There are two other things you should know about him. First, as Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, he's in charge of Press Regulation. The second... well you could always Google "john whittingdale sadomasochistic dominatrix" and see what pops up!

If there really are 150 UK Sports people involved, I wonder what the fallout is going to be..?

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    SDAddickSDAddick
    edited April 2016
    I've not read the Sunday Times expose because I won't give money to Murdoch presses, but the highlights I'm seeing on Twitter seem to indicate that these allegations are from 2014 and that they were looked in to in some way (doesn't make them false of course).

    Will be curious to see what those who actually read the article in the Times tomorrow think.
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    RivieraRiviera
    They're all at it.
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    BigRedEvilBigRedEvil
    Was watching Liverpool spurs earlier and mentioned the pace they play at is not natural.
    Same with most elite sports imo
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    AddicksAddictAddicksAddict
    Chizz said:

    This is a potentially damaging story. And quite complex. It's going to take some un-picking.

    1. There is an accusation that a doctor - Mark Bonar - sold performance-enhancing drugs to 150 UK athletes, including an England cricketer and Premier League footballers.
    thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7046126/Inquiry-ordered-into-UK-Anti-Doping-watchdog-after-doctor-prescribed-banned-drugs-to-150-sportsmen.html

    2. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has ordered an enquiry into the UK Anti-Doping watchdog.

    3. Mr Whittingdale is Vice Chairman of the 1922 Committee. (Yes, VICE Chairman). There are two other things you should know about him. First, as Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, he's in charge of Press Regulation. The second... well you could always Google "john whittingdale sadomasochistic dominatrix" and see what pops up!

    If there really are 150 UK Sports people involved, I wonder what the fallout is going to be..?

    Typical Tory MP, having a second job when he should be devoting all his time and energy to doing what we pay him for.
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    soapboxsamsoapboxsam
    John Whittingdale Will face a Backlash over this.
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    carly burncarly burn
    - Mark Bonar.

    Viagra on the list?
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    BolderhumphreyreidBolderhumphreyreid
    Dodgy doc. He has a dodgy background.

    Search his name in Google.
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    SDAddickSDAddick
    It's a rather thin amount of evidence (or lack thereof) to build a frontline Sunday story on. Secret recordings (also, is this legal?) of a doctor with a checkered past making claims that The Times admits they have no corroborating evidence for.

    I have little doubt that there is performance enhancing drug use within British sport, it seems inevitable at this point. But there isn't a whole lot beyond his claims that Dr. Bonar was involved in them.
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    TelMc32TelMc32
    Nothing in The Times that isn't on that original link.

    So we basically have a story which has been plastered all over Murdoch's media -Sky all over it too - and a dodgy MP shouting his mouth off, but absolutely no evidence, apart from a secret recording with a "doctor".

    What happened to journalists digging a little deeper and uncovering corroborating evidence to actually verify a story. There may well be drug taking in a number of sports, but there's certainly no evidence shown in this "story" so far.
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    SmithySmithy
    There has been evidence for a long time about dodgy stuff in football but the people at the top don't want the hassle so try and cover it up. Particularly in relation to the top cycling doctors working with the big teams in Spain back when doping was at its worst.
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    milomilo
    There's an insinuation that the Chinese are already using gene modification to 'make' superior athletes which is why they have come from nowhere to winning so many goal medals, particularly in weight lifting and if that's the case then it's probably game over when it comes to unfair advantage in sport.

    Of course it may be sour grapes from the other competing nations.



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    ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.
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    MountsfieldParkMountsfieldPark
    edited April 2016
    I hold the BBC 100% responsible. There, I said it for you, Johnny. Now get back to kissing Murdoch's arris.
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    Weegie AddickWeegie Addick
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.

    Didn't seem to bother them today.

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    guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.

    Or it could be the reason why they are doing so well this season.
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    TelMc32TelMc32
    guinnessaddick said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.

    Or it could be the reason why they are doing so well this season.
    Are beer and donuts on the banned substances list? :smile:
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    LincsaddickLincsaddick
    only 150? .. I would wager (but we'll never know the answer) that 1,500+ is a more accurate figure
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    dizzeedizzee
    guinnessaddick said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.

    Or it could be the reason why they are doing so well this season.
    Well it's worked on you then.

    It'll be a story set up just to make money out of Leicester situation.
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    guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    dizzee said:

    guinnessaddick said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Seeing that Leicester players have been named as one of the clubs in question it almost sounds like a fabricated story to mess with their title challenge.

    Or it could be the reason why they are doing so well this season.
    Well it's worked on you then.

    It'll be a story set up just to make money out of Leicester situation.
    Just waiting for the story to come out about how the doc stopped selling in the Croydon area.
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    JessieJessie
    I was watching the Leicester game yesterday and was amazed that Jamie Vardy showed absolutely no sign of fatigue, considering he's 29 and it was his third game in just nine days. Then I thought of this doping story and... well, I really hope the Leicester team has nothing to do with it.
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    eaststandmikeeaststandmike
    With the amount of money involved I doubt there are many clean sports nowadays, its only a matter of time before they all leak out.
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