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Zitat von Cheftrainer
We have to be more specific with the new rules. Not all were bad.
But the the recent changes (e.g. Tuner/Booster) had a dramatic bad impact on our sport. The ITTF has managed to move our former clean and fair sport to a sport where many professional players are trying to cheat.
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I think that it is really a good idea to prohibit the use of tuners. But the AGM should have waited till an easy method for a test is available.
The ITTF and especially ADHAM has never committed mistakes in the way they "develope" our sport. But everyone is able to see the fact that we now have some kind of a doping problem in our sport.
The ITTF only states that they want increase the punishments. But such punishments were never necessary in the past. Is that the future now? Is that your vision of our sport in the future?
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Sorry, we had something like a doping problem in the past. In my opinion something much more boring. A real problem, but everyone closed the eyes. Kids of an age under 15, some also under 10, were using glue that is/was definitly bad for their health. The big mistake of ITTF was not the ban now, the big mistake was not to ban it much earlier. For me it´s a big lie to say we have a problem NOW, we had a tremendous problem before and now we have a smaller one. Now we have the problem of control. But I´m very, very happy with it, because the "lie" you need to use this toxic stuff to be good is banned. And I - as a coach - can take a big influence to my players if they cheat or not. I won´t accept cheating of my players. But I will not care to much about others. And, also sorry, it´s no excuse to cheat because others do it.
You say no punishments were neccessary in the past. Ok, but do you really think it was a responsible way of coaches to accept or more - to expect kids to use toxic glue? There were articles in magazines telling 10 year old girls are gluing (and it was in a time, when every one new, the ban will come) and there were no response, how can this be.
Maybe we should change our way of thinking about glueing. It was never a good idea and it was late, maybe to late, when it was banned.