Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Fakes and Drugs
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Aug 14 19:48:06 2008
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I think they should legalise performance enhancing drugs, and make it a
level playing field.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
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In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Fakes)
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Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Fakes)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Fakes and Drugs)
Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Fakes and Drugs)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Fakes and Drugs)