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Listed below are comments made by mrireland between Tuesday, 25th November 2008 and Thursday, 29th October 2009.

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Agassi confession lengthens shadow of doubt 12:48pm on 29 Oct 2009 Andre played tennis like a squash player , a game of atrition baseline running his opponents from side to side rather than varying shote etc.
He must have concentrated on stamina to achieve success with this style

Its unlikely that any type of undectectable drug would assist in this only constant advanced training would do it.

However this story has legs, and listening to a discussion on CNN a black comentator said using CM would assist stamina and seemed to indicate that the black athletes were being targeted while whites were overlooked.

Lack of full information on exactly what the drug does or does not do is responsible for so much misunderstanding that the average reader is confused.

What Agassi needs to do is to go on air and publicly indicate his disapproval of drug use not extole its virtues as the damage done is hard to reverse.
Agassi confession lengthens shadow of doubt 8:51pm on 28 Oct 2009 Reading some of the comments here leads me to believe that there is not much in depth knowledge of just what a ruinious epedemic drugs are in todays life.
Most of the crime and at least half the prison population are due to drugs.
So many lives are ruined and the cost to society is not countable but it is astronomic.
An addict is never cured but in many cases can be controlled, and families are destroyed through lost jobs and hospitalisation.
Discussing drug use is no parlour game it a matter of the utmost seriousness and most certainly in the top handful of most serious dangers in the world today.
Agassi confession lengthens shadow of doubt 7:10pm on 28 Oct 2009 It is regretable that Andre makes drug taking sound glamorous because it is anthing but.
For those of us who have volunteered for years to stop young people getting involved it very disheartening.
It has long been my opinion that drug use in all sports is much more rampant than we think.
He was lucky that he was strong enough to break away from drug taking but many less fortunate are not.
I like Andre as he has done so much for underprivileged kids but in my opinion he should have left that episode out.
Semenya left stranded by storm 4:40pm on 20 Aug 2009 The IAAF have a tough job to do
Todays reality is that performance enhancing drugs are unquestionably used by a great many top athletes , but detecting useage becomes more difficult
Everyone knows its going on esp all other athletes, it is therefore very understandible that anyting suspiciouc draws attention.
I have been around international sports for over 50 years Olympic, World champs , Pan Am , Commonwealth etc etc and we all know that drug use is rampant
The most obvious are the weight lifters who in my opinion could never lift such weights esp at such a young age without some form of PEDs.
If we had an exposure of all the users it would be astonishing
I am 100% certain if we could isolate any of these medal winning record breakers to ensure they were clean for one month then have them lift wts or whatever strength test my belief they could not do it as well.
All the exposures over the years will not end as long as people compete esp for money regardless of which sport. It breaks your heart if you love sports.
Semenya left stranded by storm 1:56pm on 20 Aug 2009 Regrettably athletic history is replete with outstanding performances that later were confirmed as drug assisted.
Gender identity has long been tested.
The problem is not so easily rectified if by nature an athlete has a very much larger testosterone capacity naturally.
This occurred with a French squash player who lost a title only to be later cleared by findings that he produced naturally a high level of testorone.
It is highly probable that gender can get tilted towards male although legally female, probably capable of child bearing etc.
There are so many cases where physical make up gives advantages , such as distance runners from Kenya who live in high altitude and have bodies that evolved to cope with that.
There is not a level playing field , not just with the use of doping.
Brilliant Barcelona outclass Man Utd 10:43am on 28 May 2009 Watching this game I think MU came close to scoring an early goal as were all over Barco running them silly got careless and that early score changed the play
MU were shocked became over defensive passing the ball back to goalkeeper all the time showing lack of confidence going forward while Barco,s confidence increased and their ball possesion etcMU were holding ball and poor passing with no clear plan showed
They were and are capable of playing above this form but Barco played great football and may well have scored another one actually.
Haye much too hasty? 9:46pm on 15 Dec 2008 Hayes has nothing to lose against Vitali except his head if he gets caught rushing in which he has to do being outreached.

I dont really like the brothers grimm but find myself disliking Hayes even more

Thers a limit to cofidence and rhetoric I think Calzahe just about gets away with it
Hatton continues to be one of the lads 12:17pm on 26 Nov 2008 Both Enry and twin bro Jim were great blokes probably still are have not seen them for quite a while.

Henry was very personable and spent a lot of time doing charity work and handing out awards etc.

He was a very good boxer with a terrific left hook but really a light heavy and had craggy eyebrows cut very easily, but not before he decked Clay.

I have an autographed photo of him standing over Clay who is resting comfortably on his ass

Henry was a very dignified bloke modest and genuine he was just not a rabble rouser type but a credit to boxing and to England in my opinion.
Hatton continues to be one of the lads 11:22am on 26 Nov 2008 Boom,
you have a sense of humour thats good.
Remember a wise man once said the secret of happiness is to be moderately wealthy and relatively unknown.
Believe me most celebs aint all that nice and those that are dont like being recognised
Paul H and I live in San Remo but not same San Remo.
Back in the days ....Rinty Monaghan won world title and bought all the people in his street a pair of new shoes... I was only a wee lad but recall that fondly.
Compared to B who I admire a lot I am an also ran
If yiv got yer elf live in a tent yer better off than prince wif poor elf ...
Happy days
Hatton continues to be one of the lads 5:17pm on 25 Nov 2008 Boom its one thing to earn 50 mill quite another to keep it after expenses and tax etc if you end up with a third yer doin good.

Ask Rock Newman and Don King better yet ask Mike Tyson, managers and promoters are bloodsuckers usually.

Boxers are not great money managers but I hope Ricky holds on to most of his as he earned it the hard way mostly as his face reveals.

Listen hes a good fighter not really great but better than most and no one better in his true class.

Its his personal life and behaviour that in my opinion best kept out of the tabloids.I made plenty of mistakes but luckily learned from them in time to change my ways nuff said.

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