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CallumLaidlaw
03-03-2011, 06:21 PM
On SSN. Kolo Toure suspended by City for failing drugs test.
.Sean.
03-03-2011, 06:27 PM
What drugs? 'Real' drugs of performance enhancers?
CallumLaidlaw
03-03-2011, 06:32 PM
What drugs? 'Real' drugs of performance enhancers?

Just says a banned substance at the minute. On BBC website now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/9413738.stm
HH81
03-03-2011, 07:05 PM
What a clown. Sack him if confirmed.
Woody1985
03-03-2011, 07:10 PM
The World Anti-Doping Agency defines a specified substance as one that is "more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation".

Does this mean that it's coke/weed etc?

Is doping the term for a performance enhancer or does that cover that above?
1two
03-03-2011, 07:14 PM
The World Anti-Doping Agency defines a specified substance as one that is "more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation".

Does this mean that it's coke/weed etc?

Is doping the term for a performance enhancer or does that cover that above?

I would read that as a performance enhancer rather than coke but I have no idea.
Hermit Crab
03-03-2011, 07:18 PM
Q the squeeky cleaners to dive right into this one! Not even been told what hes taken yet. :chop:

Innocent till proven guilty and all that.
GreenCastle
03-03-2011, 07:54 PM
Good article

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2010/04/19/revealed-english-fa-has-handed-out-24-drugs-bans-since-mutu-190401/
Future17
03-03-2011, 07:54 PM
The World Anti-Doping Agency defines a specified substance as one that is "more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation".

Does this mean that it's coke/weed etc?

Is doping the term for a performance enhancer or does that cover that above?

A credible, non-doping explanation wouldn't include coke, or any illegal drug for that matter.

It's more likely to be methylhexaneamine or any of about 100 others which are on WADA's list. Substances which are banned but which can be consumed in food supplements etc without the individual actually knowing.

It's a grey area which WADA look at regularly when it comes to advancing the technology used in testing procedures. When it's possible to ingest a banned substance without knowing, how do you prove it was done intentionally. Currently, as in Mensing's case, it is not a case of innocent until proven guilty.
stokesmessiah
03-03-2011, 08:13 PM
I thought something was up when i seen him up the town with Simon Mensing. :devil: