Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A quite emotional post, Adam. No one has evidences against Phelps, otherwise he would have been chased through Bejing like a rabid dog, for shure ;-) After all the doping scandals of the past years, it's quite understandable that such top performances like Phelp's leave a smell of doubts. This perception has nothing to with "cynical unwashed masses", but more with common sense. Based, for instance, on news stories about US top swimmer Jessica Hardy, who had to withdrew from the games, just a few days before the beginning, after failing a drug test; or about US top swimmer athlete Gary Hall, who believes that the flood of new world records is not only dued to honest methods. He is more insider than you, but the answers given by other athletes and functionaries were the same like yours: "Bring evidence or shut up". Your attitude is quite typical for sport association functionaries. They also said the same things about Carl Lewis, Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Ben Johnson and many others, before these were caught. Believing in the honesty of the olympic sports spirit is either starry-eyed or against one's better knowledge, these days. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the races of "your" athletes :-) Cheers, Didier >Horse crap, Steve. > >The issues about testing are most severe with regard to false >positives -- kicking out athletes who never used drugs. > >SOMEONE has to speak in favor of the athletes and I'm making it me. >They train damn hard and I'm not letting the cynical unwashed masses >corrupt their effort. > >If you have good evidence that Phelps or any other swimmer is using >performance enhancing drugs then step forward and demonstrate it. > >My essay and response was the broad painting of all athetes and all >programs as dopers when sport is doing a great deal both during the >Olympics and especially outside it, to make sure the playing field is >level. > >Or, I suppose, we can just say inject your heart out and chance take >the consequences. That'll be the day I never follow another sporting >event again. > >Yours in disgust, > >Adam