Olympics: Backstrom out final game for banned substance in allergy meds (mod warning post 140)

[Fergus]

Why not? Medalists are already done, finding out that they're doped early will have little effect, since they'll just be stripped of their medals and that's that. Finding out about people who are still competing gives you options to make the competition level plane.

If you didn't know, athletes can participate in multiple events...

 

[Jolli]

Were the earlier migraine claims just some media bs?

 

[Fossy21]

Were the earlier migraine claims just some media bs?

No one said it was positively due to migraine afaik. They (TV3 amongst others) said that it might be an explanation, giving earlier complications with it.

 

[Replacement*]

People feel sorry for Backstrom? He and staff made a huge blunder, as a professional how does he not know these risks?

He let his team and country down, he deserves to feel bad.

Pretty extreme opinion. NHL players wouldn't be all that familiar with this degree of drug testing. You can take any amount of **** every day all year as an NHL player and not have anything happen. So a guy takes a Claritin and he should be shamed?

lol

 

[deckercky]

Then they shouldn't have pulled him, simple as. IIHF, NHL & NHLPA seems to agree.

But if he played, they won, and he failed the second test, doesn't the team forfeit the game automatically?

 

[goalieboy82]

to me this feels like one of the those things that happen when a high school team loses the championship game but they find out the winning teams has worn the wrong socks (or something on the lines), protests and wins and the winning team forfeits.

 

[Canadian Finn]

from the above link:

—Jari Kurri, the respected 17-year veteran right winger of the Colorado Avalanche, says some of the dirty play in recent years might be a result of players having had something more than the usual competitive juices flowing through their systems. He suggests a link between the use of pseudoephedrine and the increasing lack of respect NHL players have shown each other in this decade. "You take it, you get hyped up," says Kurri, who also says that he took Sudafed once before a game last season when he was with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. "I don't know if the stickwork, the dirty hits, are because of that, but I think it's something the league should look into."

 

[YWGinYYZ]

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