Doping Cases and Bans in 2025

[Grassmarket 4,156]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

30 months for whereabouts 

https://www.reuters.com/sports/us-shot-putter-saunders-suspended-whereabouts-failures-2025-09-10/

 

In fact.

 

1. She had an earlier wherabouts ban.
2. She was let back in February 2024
3. Between then & the US Trials had another 2 failures.
4. So with 5 consecutive failures she was allowed to go.to Paris.  

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10 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

Unfortunately I Suspect they are going to a lot moving for the finances. 

Their key market is obviously people too dumb to realise what just happened to Grand Slam Athletics.

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[JoshMartini007 2,813]

Honestly there isn't that much money in swimming and once the novelty runs out (and possibly someone dying) then I feel this experiment will die out.

[heywoodu 16,279]

9 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

 

On the other hand, some sports simply aren't attractive enough to consistently bring in enough money for not only the superstars, but also the B tier to earn enough. That doesn't necessarily mean something is inherently wrong with the sport or the way it's organized, most sports simply aren't as big as athletes and fans would like them to be.

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

On the other hand, some sports simply aren't attractive enough to consistently bring in enough money for not only the superstars, but also the B tier to earn enough. That doesn't necessarily mean something is inherently wrong with the sport or the way it's organized, most sports simply aren't as big as athletes and fans would like them to be.

Where does the money come from in cycling?  Mainly, equipment sponsors who want to sell $20,000 bikes. Golf, similar.  Skiing, similar.  Motor sports, much much more.  

 

How much equipment is needed for swimming?  Pair of trunks = $30,  Pair of Goggles = $20.   After that,,,,,,,,,,

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So Rugby not on the Enhanced games wish list. 

Edited September 12, 2025 by Orangehair43

[clemsonbeav 311]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Where does the money come from in cycling?  Mainly, equipment sponsors who want to sell $20,000 bikes. Golf, similar.  Skiing, similar.  Motor sports, much much more.  

 

How much equipment is needed for swimming?  Pair of trunks = $30,  Pair of Goggles = $20.   After that,,,,,,,,,,

Totally anecdotal, but I work at a school that has a swim team.  The mom of one of the students on the swim team told my wife that they picked swimming because they wanted a 'cheap' sport.  Come to find out, the trunks were significantly more expensive than they thought (in the hundreds of dollars, if I'm not mistaken), and there is a limit as to how many times you can wear them in competition (like, 10 times or less).  It surprised me, too.  (And if that's the case in high school competition, I can only imagine at the elite level.)

Edited September 12, 2025 by clemsonbeav

[heywoodu 16,279]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Where does the money come from in cycling?  Mainly, equipment sponsors who want to sell $20,000 bikes. Golf, similar.  Skiing, similar.  Motor sports, much much more.  

 

How much equipment is needed for swimming?  Pair of trunks = $30,  Pair of Goggles = $20.   After that,,,,,,,,,,

Yeah, that's part of what I mean. And it's a shame, because besides running not many sports can be more easily accessible than swimming at least in terms of the very basics (you've got a body of water? Ok cool), but financially, like many sports, it's just not that massive. It doesn't often provide massive entertainment value (like, say, team sports with long matches full of action, or even athletics where you can visibly see the athletes fight for every meter), there's no enormous equipment market...

 

The only way you're going to get swimming rich enough for lots of athletes to make a living with it is if you have some super rich people funding certain competitions out of sheer interest. And even so, it's going to very quickly end up with a massive prize pool for the top-3 or something and the rest ends up not a cent better.