Protocol Says Vijay Should Get A One-Year Suspension...
Rex Hoggard explains that the first doping violation, according to the PGA Tour's policy, results in a one year-suspension.
Oh, that is, unless Commissioner Distraction deems otherwise. Which, he probably will because he doesn't want to have to avoid running into Vijay Singh at the TPC Sawgrass range every day for the next year.
According to the Tour’s policy, which was initiated in 2008, a player’s first doping violation results in a one-year suspension, although Tour commissioner Tim Finchem “may depart from the sanction guidance . . . as he deems appropriate in a particular case.”
Unlike all other fines and punishments doled out by the Tour, a violation of the circuit’s anti-doping policy is made available to the media and public. According to the policy, “In each case where a period of ineligibility has been imposed or tournament results have been disqualified, the PGA Tour will, at a minimum, publish the name of the player, the anti-doping rule violation, and the sanctioned imposed.”
Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 10:36 PM
Reader Comments (16)
So if TW had not deemed the ''purpose'' of his drop, and asked ' whatcha got? and said , yes I knew it was sand, and that was a penalty drop---one stroke---made the cut......but HE SAID he was taking a plugged lie FREE drop, and was invoked 2 strokes, and the rest is history- 3 million for 2 days at the inland waterless beach.
VJ KNEW he was taking deer antler whiz, and so he DID IT~!!!! even if it was Houston Ship Channel water, which, BTW, caught on fire 3 decades or so ago. THAT will make you stronger, but maybe sterile. Film at 11.
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So, according to that announcer (I don't even know their names, just watched the online clip), the Senior Tour has drug policy of any sort and he intimated that possibly (i) Calc was suspended but as usual we just didn't know it, and (ii) said suspension did not extend to the Senior Tour.
Personally I find item (ii) highly implausible, and the other problem with that announcers thesis is Calc did play Disney in October 2011, just as he did in October 2012. In each of the two years it was the only regular Tour event he played after The Open Championship.
I think it's becoming clear the "process" (it is a process after all ;) is going to take a long time and in case you weren't aware Vijay turns 50 in exactly 3 weeks from today!
Alex H, I too saw that on the SWATS website, what a load of BS!
...Senior Tour has "no" drug policy of any sort...
Depending on how the witch doctor thinks the magic potion should be mixed, this dilution process can happen up to 100 times. Consequently, many bottles of this type of medicine contain not a single atom of whatever the original ingredient was. The idea is that the water will retain a memory of that ingredient (and yet somehow forget all the times it had poo in it over the last few million years). Placebos work better with a convincing back-story, and are more effective the more the patient pays for them. More money = stronger belief, which can actually translate into better results. At the very least, there is often a perception of better results, which is all the 'doctor' needs.
I don't know how this particular snake oil is produced, but the guys seem all about the profit. Which leads me to think that they wouldn't shell out big bucks for a barrel of extract when they have the option of buying a thimble-full of it which they can then dilute and sell as a memory of it. They already use the memory theory in their magic cell-phone vibe repelling water, though they implant that memory with radio waves.
I hope Vijay actually hands over the stuff to get tested. It would suck to be suspended for spraying the memory of a banned substance under your tongue when you didn't even know it was there. Did the PGA Tour actually test the product before they stopped Calc from using it? Or were they simply convinced that the substance existed by the magician's patter of SWATS?
On the other hand, if water does retain memories, then everybody has to be banned, since everything has been in water at some point. That's right... that sparkling and expensive bottle of Evian you have in the fridge is full of memories of heroin, all manner of HGHs, whale sperm and Hitler's poo. And Hitler's poo should definitely be a banned substance.
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