Ghostwalker

Yeah that is correct Henry, public urination on a statue of Torun's great son Kopernicus. He and Chris Holder also created a stir up at a private party in a restaurant in Torun.

Daniel Henderson, Nicklas Kallin Svensson and Ove Ledström are Team Sweden's riders in the team world cup in Berlin. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/Hendersonuttagentilllag-VM/

I think this is very important. If you intends to keep your physique at a top notch condition, there is no time for late night pub rounds with plenty of alcohol. A good physique is needed to keep you focused an entire night. Alcohol will affect your senses, reaction times will be slower, your sense of judgemement will be negatively effected.Your confidence will improve but in a negative way. Darcy's answer indicates that he 1. still haven't learned anything & 2. Doesn't take his career seriously. He doesn't want to sacrifice his partying life styles to win the title. Oh here we go again "boo hoo" :cry: poor little Darcy again. Matt ford wants to Darcy to get off the hook. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/speedway/piratesnews/11767902.Speedway__Darcy_Ward_decision_due_this_week_____Ford_calls_for_no_ban/ https://twitter.com/nedpayne_echo/status/562610467567583232

UK martin, I agree with your point but Football is much bigger then Speedway and football doesn't have the problem with players playing for several teams and etc. My point is that if the SCL wants to be taken seriously, the rules need to be sharpened a bit. No borrowing riders from other, no joker or ts. Full strength 7-rider teams. That is the only way to find out which teams who really is the strongest. The problem with that is that the Swedish and Polish teams are so much stronger then the Danish and British teams. In football, in the past 10 years, there have been several CL-winners from all of the 4 biggest leagues. in SCL the Swedish or Polish team would win every year and how many countries in Europe have their own speedway leagues?

he was originally, then i moved him to D because I remembered that he wasn't top 3 in 2013 but I had forgotten his bronze from a few years earlier, so I moved him back to C then. I found it quite difficult to find riders for both b and c list. Most riders who have won medals also have won the title.

list A Holder Gollob Hamill Woffinden list B Adams A. Jonsson Hampel Kasprzak list C Iversen Sajfutdinov ???? list D Ward A: LIndbäck Vaculik Zmarzlik Top scorers; Hamil, Adams, Sajfutdinov, Zmrzlik, Team A to win.,

Actually it has because there is a common factor (or red thread as we say in Sweden) in all of his cases. That factor is alcohol and/or other drugs.

500cc, I don't think FIM have the authority to decide what Darcy does or eat/drink outside of competition (except for banned substances obviously) especially since alcohol is only banned "in competition", Neither do I think that it's for FIM's to set Darcy straight, that is Darcy's own responsibility.

It depends on who you ask. Imo ice racing is the correct name since Ice speedway is regular speedway bikes on an ice track. Ice racing is not speedway on ice, its an own sport just like MX and Enduro are different sports despite being very similar. Also in Sweden it is known as ice racing (isracing) . http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Isracing/ Also ice hockey is played indoors on hockey rinks which occasionally is used for ice speedway while ice racing is held on speedway tracks or Bandy fields.

Imo they are doing the right thing to support him and they should definitely not just "abandon" him. However they are doing it in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons. They should support him so that he can solve his problem/issues, they should not support him by a constant stream of excuses. I guess that they think that if they wouldn't, Darcy would walk away and then they would be without their "golden boy", they are thinking of their team's best rather then Darcy's best. It was similar in his Swedish team after the Latvian GP. His Swedish team manager (Stefan Andersson) said before the season that he wouldn't tolerate any misbehaviour from Darcy this season but when being faced with the "ultimatum" of leaving Darcy outside the line-up or include him, he chose to include him. Obviously he did it to make his team stronger and his pre-season statement was just empty words. Stefan have kept a much lower profile though but with some "whining" in the media that it takes too long and etc. The thing is thought that he brought it upon himself by renewing Darcy's contract (we don't have the assets system that you have) despite that he knew that Darcy could be unavailable for the upcoming season.

You can still view his tweets if you use another browser,

If you think about it again, you will come to the same conlusion as Racers & Royals which is that next week is within 45 days from today,

Hearing seems to be complete but no decisions until next week,

I read somewhere that it was supposed to be this morning.

It kind speaks for itself that it isn't good. Anton Rosén is one rider that have had problems with multiple concussions the past couple of seasons. http://avestatidning.com/sport/1.2635512-kandes-som-att-jag-fick-motorn-i-huvudet http://norrteljetidning.se/sport/1.2718174-anton-rosen-tillbaka-i-rospiggarna It is also not uncommon in other sports like icehockey. http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/09/01/13-nhl-careers-cut-short-by-concussions/ Eric Lindros is the most well known case of a plater who had to retire from the sport prematurely due to head problems caused by concussions. http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3097077 http://www.macleans.ca/society/concussions-the-untold-story/ http://thehockeywriters.com/interview-with-eric-lindros-on-his-career-concussions-winter-classic-reunion-rumors-more/ Of the current players, Sidney Crosby has also had problems with concussions; "A timeline of Sidney Crosby's concussion and recovery" http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=587898 http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/sidney-crosby-concussion/ http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/7459581/sidney-crosby-concussion http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/crosby-discusses-lengthy-recovery-road-from-concussions-safety-of-the-game/article14118504/ Although riders recover from concussions, one more hit could give them life long problems with headaches and such,

Ok, which country's limit then? UK? Latvia? Sweden? Poland? You do realize that the legal limit, for driving with alcohol in your system, varies from one country to another and that the UK is one of the most generous countries in Europe when it comes to drunk driving limits? The limit the Latvia is: 0.02% for drivers with less than 2 years of experience and 0.05% for those with more than 2 years of experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_law_by_country#Europe

Ward was representing Australia in the SGP, although an individual event, it counts as a national team event. However whether or not he is representing Australia or just himself is probably not relevant. His violation of the rules happened at a FIM meeting so I assume that means that FIM is responsible for investigation and suspension, while Dudek's case was handled by the Polish Federation since his violation happened at a Polish league meeting.

Of course and I am sure that it also applies to at least all FIM sports as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Arbitration_for_Sport

There were no WADA back then so even if FIM gives him 6 months, they are obligated to inform WADA of their decision and if WADA feels that the ban is too short, they have the right to appeal to CAS. The same applies to Darcy, if he is found guilty he also have the right to appeal to CAS if he considers the penalty to be too severe.

I disagree, it's about penalising a rider who have broken the rules. You say that he will learn a lesson, I don't think he will unless he is given a long suspension. Saying that he broke the rules without penalising him will send a signal that he can screw up without any consequences. His previous scandals have proved that he unable to learn a lesson. Each time he have said that he have learnt his lesson but each he have been involved in a new scandal. Each time his apologists (including Matt Ford & Neil M.) have defended him, trying to sweep it under the carpet. Why would it be different this time? Darcy is standing at a crossroad now, he could continue down the same party road he currently is on which likely would lead to more scandals and a premature end to his career. Or he could choose the other serious road which could lead to a world champion title. I hope that he gets a long suspension and that he choose the second, serious road.

Arson fire, in the Swedish Elitserien there is Swedish rider quotas (3 Swedish riders/line up required). This have been respected since the rule/agreement was implemented a couple of years ago. However for next season two teams have decided to sign one foreign rider each on a Swedish license so that they can use that foreign rider as one of the mandatory Swedish rider. I have nothing the against those riders but the agreement is there to provide Swedish riders with a place in the lineup, it's not there for teams to exploit by using foreign riders on a Swedish license. However the 80cc youth series and the lowest 500cc series, the Division 1 is exclusively for Swedish rider although a Finnish team have been invited (for the second season) since there is only 9 Swedish Div1 teams and both the federation and the other teams want to have an even amount of teams.

Do you have a link to this rule?

Daniel Henderson said to Smederna.nu that he was disappointed to not getting a pick since a few of those who got picked finished after him at Strömsund. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/BesvikenHendersonreservtillVM/ I can understand his point but I have no opinion on the actual matter.

Weight depends how large sections you make. A 10x20m section will be 200m2, the weight of it would be around 120-140KG. 3-4 persons would be able to handle that. Obsviosuly there are also lighter fabrics but the lighter it is the less durable it is, Also a coated fabric, something like this: http://www.jpoks.se/images/produkter/lbc_karlskoga_presenning_w.png, is water resistant. Najjer, a ight weight tarpaulin like this: http://images.biltema.com/PAXToImageService.svc/product/large/2000023235 is indeed light weight but also of poor quality which means that it wouldn't last that long and that it would easily get ripped into pieces. The only team I know of that uses track covers is Elit Vetlanda and here are a picture of their track while covered by Tarpaulins: https://www.facebook.com/elitvetlanda/photos/a.386239436218.165368.355009296218/10152417908896219/ http://www.elitvetlanda.se/nyheter/bildligt-countdown-infor-sapa-gp-challenge/ As I said, a tarpaulin made out 600g/m2 uncoated fabric will last about 5-6 years if deployed extensively during season since the sun light will affect it pretty hard. A coated fabric will last an additional couple of years.

Fixtures for Elit-B, Div1, Div1U (80cc/youth) & Div2U (80cc/youth) have been released; http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Nyheter/Elit-BDiv1Div1UochDiv2U/