(02-17-2021, 09:45 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:I heard about this on the news, blaming a swing in the game on a medical time out. A bigger load of horse crape I have never heard.They are coached about when to take them, sports psychologists are part of the entourage, it's a tactic like grunting!
If Ash missed a trick it was taking her own medical time out when momentum swung!
One day the event will degrade into a medical intervention tit-for-tat, the tennis version of a soccer swan dive, I'm predicting this to happen between some European players and the match will be declared a nil all draw!
These are professional athletes, being paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars by tax payers, and they secure victory by very very questionable tactics.
Start billing/fining them for medical timeouts, maybe 10% of prize money per incident, don't bill/fine them if they retire hurt from a match. I'll predict the frequency of timeout incidents greatly diminishes because most are disingenuous.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"