I was reading what the Russian agency published
(Sputnik). Assuming that it is not a
“fake news.” This is the article that follows the previous one written by us. We are aware of the meaning of the Sputnik
agency but what it shows is a subject we know and wrote about in our previous
posts; it also makes us aware of the “white privilege.”
The outcome of that dispatch is unknown, and it is notable
Schoeman's name has not been connected with doping at any point
since. Nonetheless, the method by which Schoeman administered the
drug likewise remains unknown.
Prednisolone is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency when orally, rectally or injected
into the bloodstream or a muscle, on the basis it can "produce a
feeling of euphoria, potentially giving athletes an unfair
advantage." As a result, athletes may only apply the drug topically,
for skin rashes, unless a TUE can be produced.
The ability of prednisolone
to augment athletes' abilities is backed by empirical evidence. In 2007, the US National Institute of Health
(NIH) conducted a double-blind study, in which ten male athletes completed
two cycling trials — one group was given a placebo, the other oral
prednisolone.
It reminds me of the Chinese athlete that entered
Sydney with the doping substance in her suitcase just before the Olympics’
opening. She carried them as she was
transporting peanuts. She looked by
western standards that she was very used to carry the vials with her when traveling.
Another female swimmer,
Yuan Yuan, and her coach, Zhou Zhewen, were disqualified from the championships
after being caught with 13 vials of the muscle-building human growth hormone at
Sydney airport.
Umberto Eco gave an example of the difficulties in the
postmodern era regarding meta-discourse and behaviors because they are formed from
different discourses and at the end we have a mixture of meta-discourses
without meaning in the main discourses.
It becomes what the intellectuals call “unintelligent statements;” a sort
of “loose cannon” way of thinking, using a language of another meta-discourse. It
happens in triathlon when I read what Beltran (ITU coach) says regarding
Schoeman’s doping and criticisms:
Más
It
is very sad reading some coaches’ comments on the social media regarding other
doping cases, specially when you know that these coaches carry positives on
their back but unfortunately never been published. #Hypocrite
Beltran does not see the importance of doping and let
us know that there are similar cases that exist in triathlon covered-up. Is he defending somebody or an organization? It reminds me of Salvatore in the Name of the
Rose:
The first physical description that we get of Salvatore is also the
description of his peculiar “language”: his “speech was somehow like his face,
put together with pieces from other people’s faces, or like some precious
reliquaries I have seen….fabricated from the shards of other holy objects”
(47). In many ways, Salvatore foregrounds the vision of the novel that
houses him. Certainly he is a curiously amphibious creature, dwelling in
a borderland between the world of the story and yet outside of it, too.
He is not attached to any particular identity, mode of language, or point of
view. If he is a fool-like figure, by his very presence in the text (in Bakhtin’s
words) “ he makes strange the world of social conventionality.” For, he
is invested with “the right to be ‘other’ in this world, the right not to make
common cause with any single one of the existing categories that life makes
available.”[2] Admittedly, Bakhtin is talking about the role of a Shakespearean
fool, here; clearly, he has very little “right” to be “other” or “different”
in The Name of the Rose. But Salvatore is important to us
precisely because he is not important to anyone in the novel. He is
written off, at a stroke, as a vulgar, leering, winking, lubricious grotesque –
the vulgar cellarer’s (Remigio di Varagine) lackey and purveyor of tricks and
charms! He is important, though, because his gratuitous flights of verbal
bricolage and manic-digressive equivocations expose the fluid, unfixable nature
of language, and therefore the instability of the structures of meaning which
encode and stand in for the conventions of contemporary life.
Jean- François
Lyotard, French Philosopher
speaks about this problem for the first time:
This problem of doping is
not going to be solved with more laws and punishments, but educating athletes,
coaches and Governing Bodies in all aspects of life. Education is what takes athletes to excel,
not physical conditioning. Physical conditioning without education generate just
“thugs.” Tony Minichiello has said it clearly.
Education for Governing Bodies
and coaches, so they can learn the proper metalanguage to achieve the goals of triathlon
and triathletes.
21 nov. 2017
Listening to interviews given by Toni prompts
us to write what we have written in the past. We are going to do it the
same way as before; showing what we have written below. Toni helps to
write again. At the end, education is like that; keep insisting until “el
burro toque la flauta:”
Toni
doesn’t miss a beat, “The Governing Body Coaching Award is not fit for purpose.
End of. Coaches are not equipped with enough information or supported to
develop the abilities they need to achieve what they’ve set out to do: add
genuine value to athletes.
Remember,
effective coaching is about three things; process, environment and
relationships. The current award doesn’t even come close on part one; process.
They are simply no-where near providing coaches with enough information.
Currently it’s like strapping someone into a car for the first time, pointing
out the pedals, gear stick and steering wheel before firing up the ignition and
leaving them to figure it out. It’s beyond irresponsible. A comprehensive
understanding of technical process should be a fundamental foundation stone for
any coaching qualification”…
“Where
do you start trying to fix it?”
“Understanding.
Education. Like everything in life. Governing bodies need to strive to
understand what effective coaching is and what it can achieve whilst many
coaches, who’ve come through the current system, also need to take a look at
themselves”.
“In
what way?”
“Coaches
can forget that coaching is a giving process and put themselves at centre of
things. A great coach gets satisfaction from giving. You get what you give.
It’s a mind-set you must adopt to be effective. When you coach others, you’re giving
to yourself through the act of giving to others”. Toni laughs, “This is getting
deep. Look, as soon as you allow the focus to shift to yourself you’re lost and
more importantly so is your athlete”.
