16 July 2010
Quote of the Day: Jayda Evans
From her blog post covering the Team USA vs. WNBA All-Stars game:
"If I may get personal, again, I'd like to offer an apology for not blogging all of the festivities on Friday. It's not my fault; Storm All-Star Sue Bird took my computer.
She was nice about it. 'Do you have internet up?' she asked before USA Basketball practiced. After I replied yes, she said she had to do some drug entry 'thing' and could she borrow it for a short while.
It took about 90-minutes total.
'This is the most tedious thing ever!' I heard her snap several times as she entered data on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency site. Seems the organization changed its system, again, requiring athletes to input their whereabouts -- for the next three months -- for random testing.
So, there's Bird seated baseline at my computer at the Mohegan Sun Arena trying to figure out where she's going to be on Sept. 6 and what time she'll be free and a number USADA can call if it needs to reach her for a test. Or she can't be in the USA Basketball player pool. Geesh. And if Bird's not there at said submitted time, it's a missed test. Get three of those and you fail. So, if she decides to skip off to the San Juans for a daytrip instead of be in Seattle on off day during the Storm season, the USADA has to know, too.
'Forget it, I don't want to be on the Olympic team anymore,' belted Phoenix All-Star Diana Taurasi, who was seated next to Bird on another computer. Thank, oh, track and field, weightlifting, and probably baseball for the inconvenience."
"If I may get personal, again, I'd like to offer an apology for not blogging all of the festivities on Friday. It's not my fault; Storm All-Star Sue Bird took my computer.
She was nice about it. 'Do you have internet up?' she asked before USA Basketball practiced. After I replied yes, she said she had to do some drug entry 'thing' and could she borrow it for a short while.
It took about 90-minutes total.
'This is the most tedious thing ever!' I heard her snap several times as she entered data on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency site. Seems the organization changed its system, again, requiring athletes to input their whereabouts -- for the next three months -- for random testing.
So, there's Bird seated baseline at my computer at the Mohegan Sun Arena trying to figure out where she's going to be on Sept. 6 and what time she'll be free and a number USADA can call if it needs to reach her for a test. Or she can't be in the USA Basketball player pool. Geesh. And if Bird's not there at said submitted time, it's a missed test. Get three of those and you fail. So, if she decides to skip off to the San Juans for a daytrip instead of be in Seattle on off day during the Storm season, the USADA has to know, too.
'Forget it, I don't want to be on the Olympic team anymore,' belted Phoenix All-Star Diana Taurasi, who was seated next to Bird on another computer. Thank, oh, track and field, weightlifting, and probably baseball for the inconvenience."
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