It’s a load of me bollox… there isn’t a club/country/sport out there that hasn’t pushed the boundaries. Italian soccer would know all about it… We have some ridiculous standards in this country where we sit back and admire other countries’ ability to win by all costs but we ridicule our own for the same… and i’m not on about drugs either. Fuck that, if anything we need to be far more ruthless and deceiving than the love-able losers… We are like the Limerick hurlers, honest, hardworking but harmless auld cunts.
The Oirish are as corrupt as anyone else. They just like to feel sorry for themselves.
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We spend in Ireland about ten per cent of our high performance sports budget on drug testing
Way more proportionally than we need to but like a lot of stuff follow the money. Jobs for the boys.
In 2013 spent 1.2m on 1083 tests and another 225 on user pays programme
The same year high performance budget was 8.6m
Like many sports the officials, administrators and professionals run the sport for themselves and the athletes are secondary.
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Except in association football.
Before or after she pissed herself?
You should be on the stage mate. Fucking wonderful.
The Russians are about to throw a hell of a grenade with this recent hack 
Is Coe involved?
Are these lads spasticated that they discuss everything in text? Very strange they all seem to do this. Makes you wonder about what goes on in private conversations.
They hacked the WADA database. They have the details of all the athletes with Therapeutic Use Exemptions for banned drugs.
Not sure it’s that big a deal, the pressure is more likely to come on WADA than that athletes themselves. Not sure what the big issue is for the athlete if they are using a substance which they have been cleared to use on medical grounds and declared it to WADA .
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No legal issue I’d say but it just raises shit load more doubts and questions etc
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WADA might find itself in hot water with the athletes too for failing to adequately protect their medical records.
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It’ll just raise more question marks and , at best, probably put doubt over the integrity of a lot of athletes.
Was it after between Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 that there was a massive jump in swimmers being diagnosed as asthmatic? @caoimhaoin ?
Asthma has always been a “useful” one. Hard to know when it peaked.
Its just another show of intent from the Russians. They have now shown twice, that they can get at information that should have the highest level of protection around it.
Exactly.
It doesn’t say much for those charged with the security of the IT systems in these organisations that they do no realise that a massive spend is needed to prevent shit like this happening.
Spear-phishing.
Why spend months crafting malware to hack servers when you can just email someone and ask for their password.
All sensitive data should now be protected with two factor authentication at a minimum. Relying on passwords alone is just not sufficient anymore.
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The UK has gotten ridiculous for companies having their file directories hacked.
I’ve heard of multiple companies having their customer base hacked and basically held hostage until they pay an anonymous PayPal account (or something like that) £2,000+.
Is it not normally a lot more than 2k and payment in but coin.t bought it’d be easy to find someone using paypal
Kid, what do you know about contract/employment law?
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