Ghostwalker

Nope Eurosport signed a three year deal in 2013 for 2013-2015 SGP and SWC so they will cover it this year as well. http://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/2300/british-eurosport-to-broadcast-sgp

Oh him! Nicki P's favourite referee.

All suspensions comes with a "conditional" sentence. That is, the disciplinary committee will take into account any previous offences of FIM's anti-doping rules. A second offence, regardless of when it happened, will usually be considered more severe then a first offence and offender should then expect a harder sentence then after the first offence.

USA national jr team's planned Europeans tour have been cancelled due to visa issues. So is it likely that the same reason/rules that forced lots of EL-riders to re-apply for a visa now also prevents the USA national jr team from coming here and doing friendly meetings?

Unfortunately the tour have been cancelled due to VISA issues so all scheduled appearances have been cancelled or have been changed from a USA team to a world team. https://www.facebook.com/Ikaros.Smederna/posts/795839277176229

Pawel Przedpelski uses number #323, perhaps he is a Mazda fan?

It will also be interesting to see how the Swedish federation Svemo interprets the FIM decision about erasing Darcy's results between the Latvian GP and the day that he was suspended. He rode in one meeting scoring 6p from 4 heats. His current average is 2,100 (126p from 60 heats) if his points from this meeting are removed the new average should be 2.143 (120p from 56 heats).

Well in that case Ljung gets it on seniority. ...and besides how do you know that Peter Ljung didn't pick his number before Dudek? Then there's nothing that suggests that two riders cant have the same number?

Oliver Berntzon have chosen #93, Ludde Lindgren have #77, Peter Ljung have #69, Anton Rosén have 157, Mikkel Michelsen have #155.

But they did. By printing the lies and bs coming from Middlo/the Darcy camp, they indirectly blamed FIM and I also think they could have blamed Darcy for the incredibly stupid idea of going out drinking (which he admitted on tv) the night before a GP since that has nothing to do with the subsequent ruling by FIM.

How can they make up their own judgement if you (and the only other newspaper covering the story) only print one sided articles? By doing so you have already "decided" what opinion they should have.

See this post: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=77486&page=296&do=findComment&comment=2579720 As most of us already new there were no errors with testing or b-sample or anything like that. It was just lies from the Darcy camp. Just like they lied about expecting a ruling the week after the hearing when they actually knew and had been informed that the ruling could take up to 45 days.

The ruling: http://www.fim-live.com/en/article/cdi-decision-on-darcy-ward/

Ridiculousy low ban if true. In reality only a 5-6 month ban. Really hope WADA appeals although I think that is pretty unlikely.

Järf have pulled out from the remaining GP-events and Daniel Henderson will take his place. https://www.facebook.com/Ikaros.Smederna/posts/793150600778430

Smederna will meet Team USA jr at Smedstadion on Monday April 20th. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/TraningsmatchmotUSAJR/ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=792091867550970&id=225344277559068&refid=17

weatherwatcher, I agree with your comments about Middlo and Ford. However FIM cannot give him a two year ban from the start of this season since the max length of suspensions, at time of offence, was two years. Suspending him two years from the start of the season would mean a suspension of 2,5 years.

C'mon SCB only jumped the red light a little.

You are wrong. It says: Again he isn't very specific and is speaking in general terms. Nothing about the case is revealed. All he says is that as soon as the decision is taken it will be announced. Quite logical, don't you agree? I'd say that as a lawyer who is part of FIM-diciplinary committee he knows very well what he is allowed to say and not allowed to say.

So he shouldn't be allowed to explain how it works? All this time there have been complaints that there haven't been any transparency and now when someone actually makes a general explanation to why things sometimes take a long time, that isn't good either? I don't see anything wrong with his interview, he doesn't reveal or comment anything specific about the case. The only thing he comments on is that it unfortunate that Darcy hadn't been informed but as BWitcher says, Darcy and his team is very likely to know this but are just pretending that they haven't been informed.

Still no news regarding the host of round 3?

One of the FIM-lawyers who were part of the disciplinary committee at Darcy's hearing have made an interview with a Swedish news paper. Obviously he doesn't say anything specific about this case and most of what he says he things that we already knew. Things such as that it takes over two weeks from the hearing until the decision is made, isn't something ununsual but rather common since it is very important to get the verdict phrased in such a way that it is clear why the committee decided to rule in the way that they did and etc. His reply to th question regarding why the hearing wasn't held until 5 months after the offence, he says that he can't judge why it took 5 months but that it could be due many different things such as different arguments from the involved, previous investigation and etc, No decision have been taken yet but as soon as a decision is taken it will be announced. He then says that (like we already knew) that cases are not delayed for the sake of the delay itself. That it might seem like it is just to make the decision straight away but these cases that have to penetrated and analysed in a proper way so that the FIM can make a legitimate decision. He also says that its unfortunate that the involved parties and in this case mainly the rider, have not been made clear on how things work. http://mvt.se/sport/speedway/datum-om-wards-besked-oklart-10727231.aspx So like I wrote above, most things seems to be pretty obvious and much of it are stuff we already knew/suspected. It also seems that for some reason Darcy haven't been informed properly for some reason and as we have suspected, the delayed are likely due to claims/arguments by Darcy's camp while they pretend it is FIM who are delaying it without a reason.

As several have said before, it is very unlikely that they can give him a four year ban since his offence happened when the maximum ban length according to rules were 2 years.

No it wouldn't. Darcy is a very skilled riders but as I wrote, there are plenty of other riders who also are very skilled and very exciting to watch, so I doubt the sport itself would be affected. ----- Imo give him a 16 month ban from time of offence + no wild card for 2016 and 2017 GP-series. If he wants in for 2017, he'll should have to qualify on his own rather being handed a place on a silver plate,

I don't know, but I assume that it applies to all forbidden substances in general. However the rules changed at January 1st so all offences committed before that would most likely not be affected by the new rules.