Joe Skipper

Sometimes you learn lessons the hard way.

I think it's interesting that she says everyone's only been positive um obviously I obviously we just had a lot of news about doping bans with Joe Skipper and Thomas Rodriguez and I think how people it's always fascinating to me how people respond to different people differently and obviously the facts are different and I don't I'm not in their heads I don't know what happened in her case like what had come out was that it was contamination from her boyfriend like that is what was ruled like I don't have an opinion I don't know but that is what was ruled right um And so, yeah, she's just said like a lot of people have been really understanding of that, which is, I don't know.

I just find it interesting how people respond to the various doping cases, Tim.

The interesting thing I took from the interview she gave there was how much it affected her personally, whether the rights and the wrongs of the doping charge, but actually just how much it does.

Do you know what I mean? yeah it gets

messy it does right my pick of the week bit of a doping scandal so Joe Skipper popular popular British triathlete who announced his retirement I think a month or two ago it's been revealed this week that he's been popped for, well, he's not being found.

He's not returned a positive doping test, but he's been popped for, um, for three whereabouts failures.

So he's been banned for 18 months from the sport.

Uh, and it's interesting, there was a, an, a, a, a doping case this week.

Uh, did you see this British triathlon, um, star, Joe Skipper?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, he's been given an 18-month period of, uh, of suspension for an ADRV, um, because of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period.

So let's quickly touch on the doping news.

So Joe Skipper obviously gets an 18-month suspension for three whereabouts failures.

Now, I mean, I don't know how much we can talk about this, Vicky, but whereabouts failures have been a big thing in the triathlon bubble this year.

So when Joe Skipper... got his whereabouts failure.

I rang you on the phone, and I was like, oh, I've heard that someone might have got a whereabouts failure.

And you were like, oh, is it this person? And it wasn't this person.

And then Imogen Simmons was a co-host of the Breadwinners, which was an all-female podcast that we did.

And then she tested positive.

Right, anyway, what's next?

Uh, the big news that happened this week, I mean, Joe Skipper, uh, we found out later on this week that Joe Skipper was handed a, uh, suspension for having three missed tests.

I mean, you guys want to hit on that a little bit before we get into more of the nitty gritty details of 70.3 World Champs?

Yeah, do you mind if I probably give just a little bit more detail and context to what it takes to miss a test? I think that's where there's some big confusion that's covered, right? So if you're an athlete that's been deemed where you're put into a whereabouts program, presumably Joe was in the whereabouts program through Ironman, you have to provide a one-hour window where you are available – and realistically at home to be tested, right? So from 6 a.m.

Well, it's either stupidity or malice, right? So malice would be you're deliberately missing tests because you know you're going to piss hot, you're going to piss red or whatever you want to call it, and you know you'll get caught, so you have to miss the test or you're going to test positive.

But it can also just be stupidity and there are plenty of people that have fallen foul of that.

I, having known him a very long time, would feel pretty confident to put Joe Skipper in the stupidity category because he's the most disorganized bloke I've ever met.

This is a guy that's turned up at an airport three times without his passport.

Guys, we're actually joined by a fourth member today, but he's actually not going to join us together.

So we were actually lucky enough to grab Joe Skipper, but Joe is now a retired pro, but he is so busy still that to get five minutes with him is pretty difficult these days.

But we managed to grab him last night.

I chatted to him for... you know, 10, 15 minutes.

But anyway, I'm going to drop that recording in now.

Perfect.

So yeah, I'm joined here with Joe Skipper, newly retired professional triathlete, soon to be pro high rockster.

Isn't that right, Joe? Or are you doing a bit now, aren't you?

Josh Spencer said, T100 desperately needs a spark.

And by spark, I mean Joe Skipper joining the commentary team.

I think that's like high reward, high risk.

I think Joe Skipper could get your organization canceled quicker than I could.

He's loose, that boy.

He's hilarious.

But otherwise, you got anything else to

say, Joe? I do have a funny topic for next week as well that I think would be funny to do, which is an athlete marketplace.

So you have to write a listing for a professional athlete.

What, like you're selling them on marketplace?