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Sri Lanka news: Sri Lankan player tests positive during World cup | Sri Lanka Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
Uh oh. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Tests...
Uh oh. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Tests...
Why the hell has it taken so long for this to come out?Sri Lanka news: Sri Lankan player tests positive during World cup | Sri Lanka Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
Uh oh. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Tests...
I'm not really comfortable with names being tossed around without anything to back it up - but it looks like a non-story in terms of drug abuse, rather an error of medical provenance.Tharanga it seems.
Not really an excuse.I'm not really comfortable with names being tossed around without anything to back it up - but it looks like a non-story in terms of drug abuse, rather an error of medical provenance.
If you have a medical condition, you're allowed to take steroids. You just have to file paperwork saying that you're taking it. Not filing it will probably not result in much punishment, as long as the drug was indeed prescribed by a physician for his medical condition.yeah really like an unfortunate error than anything... guy was ashmatic, guy's physio or doc ****ed up, guy's in trouble...
Don't be so quick to dismiss it as a non-issue....Seems like he was prescribed it for asthma - if he has a prescription, it's a non issue.
Yes, he should have declared it, and he might be punished. But the punishment will barely be a slap on the wrist. If it has a legitimate therapeutic purpose, no sports body is going to go against medical advice and ban him. You're allowed to take steroids on the WADA ban list if they are given for a medical condition (though you do have to file a certificate). If they didn't allow that, and something happened to the player because they didn't take the medication recommended by doctors, WADA and/or ICC would get owned in court. Plus it makes sense, why would they deny legitimate medical treatment to somebody?Don't be so quick to dismiss it as a non-issue....
Some asthma treatments have steroids which are banned by WADA as performance-enhancing drugs. What Tharanga should've done is declare his medication, and get it approved by his board's medical advisors. If he didn't do so, he only has himself to blame, and should serve any punishment that is dished out to him.
More on that story here....Bit hard to double guess what has happened until the ICC confirm the charge and the SL authorities and player himself respond (unless things have moved on overnight?).
If he was ill enough while on World Cup duty to need prednisolone then I'm sure there'll be a strong record of the illness, diagnosis and treatment with the SL medical team, in which case the player has nothing to be concerned about.
Were there any reports at the time of him struggling in matches or training?