bottle of what … ??
Does anyone (aside from the Dutch Federation) believe this story?
… Van Gelder was poised to make a storybook comeback at the October World Championships after winning gold on rings at the Ghent World Cup in September. But he withdrew from the competition days before it began, and the Dutch announced he had again been using cocaine.
Van Gelder has since come forth and said that his “confession” of cocaine before Worlds was false, and that he had had problems dealing with the pressure of performing in a Worlds at home so soon after making his comeback. …
That makes no sense. If he was not ready to compete, psychologically, it would have been easier to “fake” an injury.
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He was tested the day after his false confession and it was negative, so yes I believe him.
That’s just weird. … Why not “fake” an injury instead of admitting to your team that you’re back on drugs?
Something’s not right here.
Well cocaine will get out of your system in about 2 to 3 days. I am not convinced. I hate to put it this way but people who do drugs lie. They lie all the time. They will confess and take it back. Sorry, I don’t believe him.
Odd are that JO is right.
My guess is that his admission to his team was legit. … And that lawyers later convinced him to concoct this highly unlikely tall tale.
I’m with JO. Being someone who’s been in Yuri’s shoes (I’ve been in recovery from substance abuse for 20 years) it’s been my experience that you can’t trust an addict to be honest-especially about their addiction. Hopefully, Yuri will get the help he needs to get off cocaine-that drug in particular is ghastly to get off of. But-if he’s not willing to get the help he needs, maybe keeping him off the Dutch team will give him the shock he needs to stay clean. It’s been my experience that an addict (or alcoholic) needs to lose things they love in order to realize they have a problem. I hope Yuri realizes he may HAVE that problem.
¨easier to “fake” an injury¨?
You do not know what kind op pressure he was under, and neither do you all know what his motivation was for doing the things he did.
Logically:
What route would have been faster way out of the competition, away from all of the pressure?
1. Faking the injury > in this case there was a doctor present who could probably see through the fakeness.
2. Making a confession everybody would see as truth because of the past. And before the media could do anything with the confession, the KNGU would make sure you would not be near the Ahoy in rotterdam.
The Dutch have a word for these kinds of statements.
kortzichtig > google it
(and yes english is not my native language)
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