Sports Dispute Tribunal Critical Of FIBA

[Pure]

2:33 pm, 23 Aug 2006

 

The Sports Dispute Tribunal says the decision by basketball's international governing body, FIBA, to suspend Tall Blacks guard Mark Dickel jeopardises their bid to achieve uniformity across sport in New Zealand.

 

Dickel was suspended by Basketball New Zealand for two games and was then warned and reprimanded when he appeared before tribunal chair Barry Patterson QC in accordance with World Anti Doping Agency's code.

 

However FIBA suspended Dickel for a further three games at the world champs in Japan and Mr Patterson says that highlights the inconsistencies in penalties that exist for the same offence.

 

He says if the matter isn't resolved they may have to get international sporting bodies involved each time an international player comes before them after testing positive to cannabis so as to avoid a repeat of the Dickel scenario.

 

 

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[stonedstump]

That's disgraceful.

 

Cannabis would not even enhance his performance. I wouldn't want to be playing any important game of basketball while stoned.

 

And they punished him twice for the same thing basically. That's like double jeopardy isn't it?

[Stoney]

thats just crap funny how some sports test and some dont i mean go to any of the x games or snowboard championships and do some testing would love to see the results

 

and yeah not exactly a performance inhancing drug

 

cheerz

[two2time]

its not like the cunts are any good ...fuck it let them smoke..

 

 

tt

[mr_moppet]

If I remember rightly a snowboarder was stripped of a medal at the last winter olympics for testing positive to cannabis

[everest]

they must be tokin on sativa , cos i've not won a race on this bloody indica for ages

 

ev