Ghostwalker

To quote Panda, proof please. The Monster kids I know of.

I'll see if I can find it. It was either during a GP or SEC event. I think it was the same weekend as one of the Polish semi-finals, He have deleted the tweet now, it was posted on September 14th and it was in a Polish meeting and not SGP/SEC.

It's not the first time Darcy does that. He have done it on several occasions.

According to Speedway racing, the season will start in Warsaw at April 25th. They also claim these dates: Then they say that SWC RO & Final will be held at Vojens with a semi each in KL and Poland. http://www.speedwayracing.se/nyheter/54/

You miss the point. From the rule/legal point of view Darcy was riding under the influence from the moment that he arrived at the track. Regardless if he was standing in the pit area or out on the track on a bike, he was considered being under the influence of alcohol in conjunction with a meeting. The competition starts when Darcy arrives at the track and ends when he leaves the track. So from the moment that he arrived at the track, he was considered being under the influence of alcohol "In competition" and thus should receive a punishment for that.

I know flight time from Auckland to Melbourne is approx 3,5 hours which is about 1 hour longer then a flight from Heathrow to Stockholm-Arlanda but I don't think it really matters that much if the flights are 2,5 hours or 3,5 hours long and they do have low cost carriers down under just like we do. The distance from Sydney to Melbourne by road is "just" 200km longer then the road distance from Stockholm to Copenhagen (and an additional 300km to Vojens from CPH). Then MEL and SYD are each the same size as Stockholm and CPH together.

No more gamble then any other track. The vast majority of the spectators at any GP are locals anyway so there isn't any difference between Australia and the European GPs. Is there any difference then a few people from NZ or Sydney flying to Melbourne then a few Brits flying to Stockholm?

From a rule/legal point of view Darcy was riding under the influence. I agree that it is different though since Darcy consumed the illegal substances on purpose while Dudek (in theory) could have consumed the illegal substances by mistake, so yes the punishment should be different (=stronger).

Rzeszow, Torun, Wroclaw and Zielona Gora seems to be the clubs he is negotiating with. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportowefakty.pl%2Fzuzel%2F474551%2Fgrigorij-laguta-negocjuje-z-klubami-z-rzeszowa-torunia-zielonej-gory-i-wroclawia

Wasn't that the whole point if his/hers comment? That for most fans it does not matter where the season finale is held since most people watch it on tv anyway.

Well how many speedway fans (who have to pay for their own travel/accommodation/tickets) travels to all of the SGP in Europe? How many fans have a season ticket to the SGP? How many speedway fans travel from abroad to each GP?

I think a fair punishment would be a 1 year ban from all speedway and an additional 12 months from national team events (national champs, GP, GP qualifiers, SWC and etc). After all that was the punishment for Dudek so Ward shouldn't be treated any differently, especially since Ward was very well aware of what he was drinking while Dudek (atleast in theory) might have gotten the illegal substance into his system without intent.

Sure we are finished in Sweden by the end of October, the season here finished almost two weeks ago. Due to the Swedish climate, it is usually cold and rainy (possible even snow in a worst case scenario; see this article: http://www.thelocal.se/20131014/50784) in the end of October. Very unsuitable for speedway. The Polish finals were held a week ago so they're also finished by the end of October.

http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/33503 Pol 28 World 32.

seemed like a nice interview with "Grisha", I have no idea what they were talking about though. ;=)

Thanks, works fine with VLC.

Gardell would have excluded Nicki even if the situation would have been the opposite. As I have said before, nowadays the referees have two sets of rules. 1 set for 15 of the riders and 1 set for Nicki. 1st set = try to determine who caused it and exclude him. 2nd set = exclude Nicki no matter the situation.

------- 10 hours it is: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

I don't think we'll see Lindgren getting another wild card since Freddie himself said this to speedwaygp.com: http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/3239/freddie-time-to-deliver

If the FIA would give him a very short ban, I think that Wada might step in and appeal the decision to CAS since Wards (like I said a few posts ago) that Ward did not only violate FIM's rules but also Wada's anti-doping rules which FIM have implemented into their own rules. I also think that the long delay might be due to that this, after all, is a prejudice ( in speedway at least) and FIM probably wants to make sure they have water tight case as well as that the punishment will be adequate enough since it probably would be used for future references if this situation would happen again.

1. He was over the allowed limit of alcohol. Doesn't matterif he think he was clean or not. He was over the limit. He should not drink alcohol beverages the night before a Grand Prix and especially not the amount that will cause him fail a test by midday the next day. 2. What relevance does it have? If you drink then drive and fail the breathalyser test because you are over the limit, you have to take the consequences. 3. No I have not. I don't drink and drive.

Very poor performance from the Polish spectators by booing at Nicki the award ceremony.

Tai will take it. Nope I was wrong.

Unless Nicki is involved because then he will be excluded 12 times out of ten no matter the situation.

You were right,