Case Sergio Ramos: Distraction on the Doping Front – Sport

A top footballer can be invested for a few thousand euros, an all inclusive package without worries. The case of Sergio Ramos shows: as it can not continue now.

Comment by Thomas Kistner

The issue of doping has sparked a lot of enthusiasm: in the final of the 2017 Champions League, the Real Madrid doctor replaced the anti-inflammatory dexamethasone that he had offered to Sergio Ramos, noted betamethasone on the form. Scandal? The two cortisones differ, as the doping expert Fritz Sörgel says, only by minimal structural differences. And: both are allowed when they are connected. The fact that the real-doc did not write Dexa, but Bethamethason is undoubtedly a mistake – but certainly not a doping test. Not even according to all the rules of reason: who would deliberately conceal a means that should be registered only to give a similar remedy? Who creates problems so superfluous for himself?

Dexamethasone: Cortisone is reported quite frequently. World jockey champion Chrstinia Obergföll and Olympic record champion Robert Harting attended the Rio 2016 Games. The subject was the first because the facts of the Agency's database World anti-doping Wada were taken over by Russian and published pirates. were. The hackers wanted to create the image of a secretly legitimate doping for Western athletes – in exchange for the Kremlin's dope, banned by the world at the time. But the difference is that the doses of dexamethasone are possible according to the rules. This must now be taken into account in the case of Sergio Ramos.

However, Real 's captain is accused of another irregularity: after a league match, he was first showered instead of immediately delivering the requested sample. He remained in the field of vision of the controller, who had reported the kicker, as he had claimed, on the consequences – which did not exist in the end.

Captain Real says that he has recently been blackmailed with the material leaked

All this shows two things: first, the problem is not the athlete who ignores the instructions (which Ramos denies) – but an anti-doping device that does not strictly punish according to the rules. Secondly, a general outcry – especially in football – would be particularly desirable in case of much more serious incidents. Here also in Germany, even at the highest level.

There was this 2006 World Cup summer fairytale movie scene, when a German striker left the controller in front of the Klotür: because he could not pee himself. he was watched. There was also the Starkicker, his club informed on the way to the training on a surprise test on the club grounds. The player suddenly resumed his cold, he turned around. Or the best German professional, that the controller was not even able to locate by mobile phone during a surprise test attempt: the player was currently in the church. He said later. The case of the Doping Control Officer, who was standing in front of a locked door even though the person was in the house, was ready to film. A – Attention! – An acoustic certificate later confirmed that the kicker was in a corner of his home, where the door bell could not be heard.

This kind of thing happens, you notice, during real serious tests – during surprise checks at home or on the training ground. In technical jargon, such tests are called "intelligent commands". This term alone shows what the test tested after the points matches – and even after a final of the Champions League – can be summed up in two words: meaningless rituals. Smoking candles for the believing part of footballers. Anyone who is caught in such a pee game simulation exercise on the day of the match is already banned for stupidity.

The heart of the evil does not lie in lax formalities, but in the system

Modern professional drivers have a head start on all methods of badysis. For a few thousand dollars, a high-level footballer can benefit from a worry-free doping package that combines real performance increases with guaranteed protection against discoveries. So this is the problem of doping. Excessive excitement at trivialities during routine testing can easily mask the real problem of fraud. And the audience feels that the tests are actually quite good – and that the bad guys are protected only from the top.

The heart of evil does not lie in loose formalities, but in the system. A system that the real dope can not explode – and does not want. Because this could be the heroes that represent the success of the company. Why does not organized football replace its ritual post-match tests with intelligent goal controls? He would have to test where and when doping makes sense. Not after the match.

A spike offers the current swirl around the Real player but quite. Sergio Ramos said that he had been blackmailed with the material leaked a few weeks ago – he could have prevented the publication. It's violent. Can he prove it? Then you have to rethink many things that happen in football.