First chess player banned for doping

3 years ago · Quote · #1
TadDude

Monika Galamfalvy of Austria. Repeat 2009 03 20. Original 2008 12 12.

Anybody have other sources?
3 years ago · Quote · #2
Hugh_T_Patterson

Hey TadDude, are they talking about brain stimulating drugs? I am just curious because I'm on pain medication that actually has brain stimulation as one of it's side effects. I am on it for servere joint damage due to radiation treatment for cancer a while back. Of course, I am not worried about being banned from anything but simply curious. Do you know more about the subject since the article was so short? Thanks for the post. Iwasnt sure if it was real or not since I am always the last person to get the joke!!
3 years ago · Quote · #3
TadDude

Hugh_T_Patterson wrote:

Hey TadDude, are they talking about brain stimulating drugs?

Iwasnt sure if it was real or not since I am always the last person to get the joke!!

No drugs involved. The sanction is for refusing to be tested.

Appears to be a legitimate story.
3 years ago · Quote · #4
gabrielconroy

Nearly happened to Ivanchuk recently when he stormed off after a loss and missed a drugs test. I think FIDE were trying to bring chess more in line with the stringent testing regimes seen in athletics and physical sports, perhaps as a way of being included in the Olympics.
3 years ago · Quote · #5
NM Reb

The hypocrisy here is overwhelming ! One player gets severe punishment and another walks away with no punishment at all because one is famous and the other isnt ! This is just one of many reasons there is so little respect for fide, its "laws/rules" etc and it also applies to laws in the real world ! They are NOT applied equally to all ! I for one think fide should just give up on chess in the Olympics and do away with the stupid testing completely.
3 years ago · Quote · #6
petershaby

Well said Reb, my feelings exactly, if any other Sports governing body exercised the way fide have done there would be outrage, it's embarrassing for chess.
3 years ago · Quote · #7
eBusiness

I just wonder who the hell came up with doing out of event tests on amateurs? No matter the sport that seems a bit overdone.

"Hi, you don't know us, but we have to stick a needle in you.", yeah right, wait a sec, I need to fetch my baseballbat.
3 years ago · Quote · #8
NM Reb

Since I cant find any news about this on chessbase nor chessvibes I am starting to wonder if this isnt just some gag ? The joke is on us ?
3 years ago · Quote · #9
gabrielconroy

The source website seems to be reasonably reputable, and it's also quite a bizarre and niche topic for a news site to be joking about.
3 years ago · Quote · #10
NM Reb

gabrielconroy wrote:

The source website seems to be reasonably reputable, and it's also quite a bizarre and niche topic for a news site to be joking about.

You have a good point but surely such chess news sites as chessbase.com and chessvibes.com would be carrying this as well ? I find it odd that I cant find this anywhere else. In any event , some Spanish players were punished in the Calvia Olympiad for doing exactly what Ivanchuk did in Dresden and yet nothing happens to Ivanchuk nor his team. Its just a crock and I knew the elites would NOT be held to the same rules/laws/standards as other players.
3 years ago · Quote · #11
moderndefense

Chess in the Olympics is stupid.

What's next?

Scrabble in the Olympics?

Yatzee? Poker? Get a life people....

Nobody even watches the Olympics anymore.
3 years ago · Quote · #12
Hunadora

Great do i now have to worry if i drink a red bull at my next match! LOL
3 years ago · Quote · #13
zugstwit

If ever there's a semblance of truth here in performance enhancing drugs, I bet medical students preparing for their board exams had this on top of their must-have list!
3 years ago · Quote · #14
chesscrazy018

I fail to understand why world class players r into drugs!!IThey must understand its just a full stop to their career!!