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The opening poster doesn't go to a meeting because its packed to the rafters? Yeah, its awful when its a big crowd with a great atmosphere. Much better to have a sparse man and his dog crowd. Agree with Leicester though! Awful choice.

No you wouldn't come up with 25 worthy World Finalists. You'd have a list, who apart from the top boys, would be full of riders of a lesser level who looked great because they were riding in a weak format and whom you rarely saw get beat. Schwartz would waltz into the GP's? Why would he? Based upon? He got a maximum in a World Pairs Final? That means he won 3 races of note in one meeting.. i.e. beating the Danes, English and the Aussies.. although you could only really call Sanders top class of the Aussie pair (Gary Guglielmi the other). The Finns, New Zealand and the Czechs.. nothing to write home about by beating them. As for the World Team Final... boy what a tough meeting that was! What with the mighty West Germany and Czechoslovakia being two of the four teams. You can just as easily point out storming meetings that riders such as Martin Vaculik, Bartosz Zmarlik, Troy Batchelor and Martin Smolinski have had in major events... none of them you would class as being amongst the 'big names'.... boy its tough these days... an EL reserve can win a GP less than 1 year later Back in those days you could finish joint 1st in a World Final without even racing in Europe, and having only had 1 years experience prior... That would never, ever happen now.

He might not have been breathalysed at all. Perhaps they just made it up, Darcy just thought he'd go along with it for a laugh. Then go to the time and expense of having a hearing, and not only that, writing up a verdict. All If's in your little world isn't it.

What hype? You've just hit on all that is wrong with speedway. It's rarely promoted that way, far more so as the 'family sport'.

In Hancocks case, I'm not entirely sure it does prove it. Speedway is a sport where machinery/setup is at the very least as important, and arguably more important than actual riding ability. It seems in his later years Hancock has mastered this art.

You are the one who is making the claims by stating Darcy isn't a cheat. You have no idea, neither do we.

I didn't mention Darcy. You really should stop being paranoid. I simply pointed out your assertion that someone being 'good' makes them less likely to cheat is ridiculously far of the mark. Whoooshh!

The higher you are, the more incentive there is and quite frankly, the more likely.

Doubt they are unless someone protests.. then they have to pay a fee to do so. There wouldn't be if its the substance that certain famous Poles are alleged to have used over the years. It''s designed to help propel you from the start, after which all traces of it are gone.... so I've been told, who knows if there is any 'substance' to it...

Well we know from a couple of seasons ago the Star reported Barry Briggs accusations of cheating with the dirt deflectors... which apparently he could see from sat on his sofa watching a Sky meeting. The Star gave it a big headline.. Briggs accused riders and team managers of being aware of it... he claimed it gave you a bike lengths advantage to turn 1.. At the time I said this was a serious accusation and either Briggs just wanted a bit of attention or he should be reporting his findings and the names of the riders to the BSPA/SCB. Of course that didn't happen.. so one can only conclude he was talking codswallop. A further investigative story was promised in the Star... which never happened.

It still is.

I assume it is this article you are referring too? http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/11762497.Speedway__Darcy_Ward_made_to_wait_on_hearing_verdict/ If so, there are no quotes from the FIM at all. What you have claimed is an FIM 'quote' is merely the journalists interpretation of events. What we can read into it is the journalist and indeed the Poole/Ward camp have done next to no research into how these hearings work. I find that difficult to believe. What is far more likely is they knew full well the verdict wouldn't be given immediately, that there would be a wait before it was issued in writing, but continue to spin the "Woe is me, Poor mistreated Darcy" line for all it is worth.

As far as I am aware it is only Darcy who has said this in his tweek stating ' a call will be made next week'? I have my doubts they will have told him a decision would be forthcoming next week, far more likely that it will be made in due course. Based upon past cases the FIM has dealt with and the rules stating 45 days it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see next week go by with no news... The pro Warders will be up in arms about what a joke it is again then!

So why did he have a trial? Just for the fun of it?

The one benefit we get from the continuing wait is the comedy value has been increased still further!

http://www.motoxaddicts.com/2014/12/17/full-fim-ruling-on-james-stewarts-punishment/ Here is the full ruling issued in the case of Bubba Stewart mentioned earlier in the thread, someone far bigger than Darcy Ward. You will notice from the dates that Darcy's case has been dealt with pretty quickly. The statement will be of particular interest too, particularly:- "The CDI has now issued its decision. On the merits, the CDI found that it was undisputable that Mr Stewart had committed an anti-doping rule violation under Article 2.1 CAD which states in particular that “t is each Rider’s personal duty to ensure that no Prohibited substance enters his or her body(…)”.

What are you wittering on about now. The RULE says within 45 days. Middlo has decided its next week.

I would suggest things don't look great for Darcy at this point. Had there been discrepancies or had his legal team been successful it would have been thrown out by now. Now, they will go away to decide upon his punishment.

It's been quoted by Salty how it works. A decision is given in writing within 45 days of the end of the hearing. Simple.

No, that's just guessing according to Starman.

Try posting something to demonstrate that then, as what you posted doesn't show that.

Starman? Logic?

Yeah you are right. I'm just guessing. Funnily enough the dates of previous offences and hearings back up my guess though.

You really don't understand the system do you. There are many documented cases with the FIM where the procedure has taken months. In cases where there was no doubt. They are not 'deciding' or 'making decisions' in that time.

Irrelevant.. and he doesn't actually say they are involved. He says they are responsible for 27 sports. It's just more blame deflection.,