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Olympic Sport |
Doping Punishment |
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John Stadtlander |
Hockey |
Banned from participation |
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Ricardo Estremera |
Ski Jumping/Speed Skating |
Banned for 4 years |
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Todd Shatynski |
Speed Skating Short Shirt |
Lifetime ban |
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Brad Lewis |
Speed Skating |
8 year ban & return medal |
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Marey Bailey |
Hockey |
Banned from participation |
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Anthony Giuliano |
Bobsledding |
Revoke any medals won and a lifetime ban from competition. |
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Eric Macknight |
Snowboarding & Alpine Skiing |
Lifetime ban. Simple as that. |
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Mark Mindel |
Hockey & Speed Skating |
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Scott Mindel
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Hockey without the pros in it, should be fun to watch! |
At least an 8 year if not a lifetime ban |
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Mat Nark |
Downhill Skiing |
Should get one smaller penalty followed by a lifetime ban! |
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George Berg |
Biathlon |
If it is clear doping and no accidental supplement, they should be banned for life as well as their coach or manager. |
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Ed Neiles |
XC Skiing |
If you are an athlete from a third world country and your only way to escape is by using PEDs, it would be difficult for me to punish that person. Take away medals, yes. Suspend, no |
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Ray Newkirk |
Hockey's my current favorite, although I have a perverse fascination with curling |
IMO, there's doping and then there's doping. Penalties should fit the degree of the crime. |
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Dick Vincent |
Sledding Competitions |
2 year suspension for first time offenders, no questions asked. 2nd offense, BANNED. |
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Patrick Carroll |
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Athletes caught doping should be banned from any future major competitions, and required to pay back any prize or sponsorship money they may have won before doping. |
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Renee Tolan |
Downhill Skiing |
Lifetime bans for athlete and coaches; if the governing bodies won’t take the initiative to institute a zero tolerance policy than race organizations and directors need to ban dopers from being eligible to compete in their events. |
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Lisa D |
Figure Skating |
stripping the athlete of the medal he/she received and a ban from competing until they’ve demonstrated at least a year of sobriety. I’d also recommend mandatory rehab, but folks aren’t ready to be sober until they’re ready. So, no competing until they’ve accepted sobriety on their own and sustained it. |
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Charles Bishop |
Hockey-I’m from Canada! |
Barred for at least 2 years but would depend on circumstances. |
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Josh Merlis |
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My opinion is that when an athlete "goes pro" there should be some agreement by which if the athlete is ever found to be guilty of doping, he/she not only is immediately permanently banned from competing in the sport, but without any chance returning. In addition, this agreement should include a clause by which he/she is liable to return 100% of the winnings he/she has accumulated in the sport regardless of how long one has been a competitor and how recent the conviction occurred. The money should then be disbursed in some fashion to those who competed against him/her and ultimately lost out on prize money/sponsorships,etc. that were place/performance-based. If someone can't afford to pay this back to the governing agency that will oversee all this, well, I'm not sure what the punishment should be at that point. But it needs to be severe. Too many athletes feel that they don't even care if they are ultimately caught because the financial pay-off, even from just one year of amazing performances, is life changing. Penalties need to be more severe to truly make someone "think twice". |