What Ruffles you Feathers (Mk II)

[Sheikh]

i'm all for life bans.

So am I, but not for a first offence. 2 years for being found cheating, with increased surveillance testing when you are allowed back, and you have to pay for the increased testing (which can get expensive!). Life ban for subsequent offences, partly because you are too stupid to cheat successfully

[shasta]

So am I, but not for a first offence....... Life ban for subsequent offences, partly because you are too stupid to cheat successfully

The Russian in question has tested positive twice - once for a steroid and the second for the same substance that got Sharapova 2 years - zero tolerance for her when there were reasonable mitigating circumstances. Yet, inexplicably, FINA clears Efimova and she gets a Silver that belongs to someone else. Spineless, like the IOC. I'm not naive enough to think that cheating is not fairly invasive in the pro sports era. But it's completely unacceptable that the governing bodies, in the face of reportedly overwhelming evidence, haven't got the guts to pursue the cheats to the N'th degree.

[jono]

Or like in boxing where lucas Browne got 6 months where povetkin was allowed to continue fighting.

There just needs to be some consistency.

[jargan83]

The Russian in question has tested positive twice - once for a steroid and the second for the same substance that got Sharapova 2 years - zero tolerance for her when there were reasonable mitigating circumstances. Yet, inexplicably, FINA clears Efimova and she gets a Silver that belongs to someone else. Spineless, like the IOC. I'm not naive enough to think that cheating is not fairly invasive in the pro sports era. But it's completely unacceptable that the governing bodies, in the face of reportedly overwhelming evidence, haven't got the guts to pursue the cheats to the N'th degree.

I was reading earlier that Efirmova is only competing at these game games because of an appeal to the CAS and that there is currently an investigation underway into how long the drug she tested positive for remains in the human system. Hopefully she will be stripped of her medal down the track.

Good to see Michael Phelps back Horton and King in the past 24 hours.

Also I saw the International Paralympic Committee show more spine than the IOC by banning all Russian athletes at he Paralympic Games.

[valzc]

Wasting 2 hours of my life that I won't get back trying to log into census website which has crashed. Apparently Government can't understand why 16 million people trying to log on in one evening would have been an issue- DOHH! And the helpline can't cope with with flooded calls and has shut down. FFS-what feckin eejit employs even more eejits!

[jono]

Had tafe tonight & would have bet the farm on that happening. So I had no inclination to do it tonight

[jargan83]

I knew the website was going to to crash so I didn't even bother with the census tonight.

You have until September 9 anyway.

[Sheikh]

Filled it in yesterday, but was always expecting a screen to appear saying "What are you doing filling it in a day early, dickhead?"

[jono]

the gas strut on my office chair is dying.

somewhat annoying slowly sinking down against the desk as i'm trying to complete assignments!

[shasta]

I knew the website was going to to crash.

Has the AFP come calling yet?

[The InnFORCEr]

Kate Emery
The West Australian
August 12, 2016, 12:55 am



The presence of scantily clad barmaids at Kalgoorlie’s Diggers & Dealers annual mining conference has been branded “completely unacceptable” by business leader John Lydon.

Mr Lydon, who heads the Australian arm of the world’s best- known management consulting firm, said McKinsey & Co would never attend such an event.

“It’s completely unacceptable and I’m sorry to anyone who was there or thinks that’s acceptable, it’s not,” he said yesterday, a week after the latest conference wrapped up.

Skimpies are not welcome at Kalgoorlie's Diggers and Dealers mining conference. Picture: Richard Jefferson.
“We won’t go to an event like that. We present at all sorts of conferences in mining but there’s absolutely no way. We as leaders just have to tell everyone it’s unacceptable.”

Mr Lydon’s comments, made at a CEDA lunch in Perth yesterday in response to an audience question, were echoed by a fellow panellist, Department of Local Government director-general Jennifer Mathews.

Ms Mathews, who attended Diggers in a former role as Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade State director, said it was “really disappointing”.

“We had a stand and a booth at Diggers & Dealers about 10 years ago and we were there with all these girls in their little gold bikinis handing out brochures and then this bell rang and out came the women’s mud-wrestling,” she said.

“It made me feel really uncomfortable. We ended up writing to them and withdrawing our sponsorship and saying we won’t be sponsoring you in the future if you have that sort of event.”

Diggers — Australia’s biggest mining conference — does not hire or promote skimpies at any of its official functions.

Skimpies are allowed at a handful of Kalgoorlie-Boulder hotels year-round. The pubs are popular networking spots and host events for some firms.

Diggers director John Langford said skimpies were not part of the conference but people could choose where to drink.

“What happens at the hotels in Kalgoorlie is totally out of our control,” he said. “We get a little bit tired that Diggers & Dealers gets associated with skimpies because it’s a world-class event.

“The suggestion that the culture of Diggers is degrading to women is insulting.”

Palace Hotel owner Ashok Parekh said skimpies were “a small part of the conference”.

“I just don’t think it’s a big deal,” he said.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...diggers/#page1


And that will be the end of that!

[palitu]

replay for next year...

Love how he whinges about an event from 10 years ago.

[brokendown gunfighter]

did he go up to the starting stalls?

[shasta]

did he go up to the starting stalls?

Bit too early. First meeting of this years Kalgoorlie Round is this Sunday.

[jono]

Someone genuinely wants to build a wave pool @ Alfred cove.

As if Perth doesn't have enough beaches to surf at.
Morons...