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Originally Posted by bsess
What nonsense! Who is responsible for what you put in your mouth, Tye? Haga was (and still is) both a grown man and a highly paid professional athlete. He is ultimately responsible for knowing the rules and regulations and he failed on several levels. He failed his team, he failed his manufacturer, he failed his sponsors, he failed his fans, he failed his country, he failed his family and he failed himself because,.....he failed a f*cking drug test. The list of of banned substances was published in the rules distributed to all the riders and teams and he FAILED to f*cking read them. His fault and no one else's.
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Your an angry little man arn't you...
I'll bet money, Haga didn't even read the ilicid drug section because why would he be taking a drug that was banned? I just watched the 2000 season of WSBK when he was banned and it happened all because of a natural herbal product.
Did he deserve to have those points taken away? Absolutely not and the team fought for the entire year to get them re-instated and the appeals lost. Needless to say he still wouldn't have won, which is the reason why this conversation happened. Edwards was already too high and Corser had won 5 races around mid-season and was on the rise.
Finally, the team is ultimately responsible for the rider. In the case of Yamaha, it was NOT Haga's team, he was just a rider on the team. Its the team manager and nutritionist's fault, for not following the rule book.