Last weeks episode of "The Good Wife" took a shot at the panel and their reasoning's that decides about the doping at the world stage of athletics.
It is really a big politico and even though there are rules, the person in charge decides upon who gets targeted, what rules to follow and how hard to go after them. It all sounds personal and it is personal, no real standard for all in the way they deal with it.
It is widespread fact that most of the cyclists and other athletes at the top level do something to maintain their stamina. It is just a narrow line between what is and what is not legal.
They know their rules and procedures are not enough to catch everyone and when someone beats their system so easily as Armstrong has, they go after their team mates and friends and sponsors. The only way they have caught him was by breaking down the weakest link and turning everyone against Armstrong for causing their hardship with the panel.
It all started with someone pointing the finger at Armstrong.
Armstrong is still the best cyclist ever and I don't care that he did it. Not my choice, it was his.
Enhancements have been going on in sports from pewee to pro long before I was a kid in sports and that has been more than half a century.
On the early battlefields around the world, armies would self induce themselves with morphine and other drugs of choice and enter into a do or die epic event.
He ain't the first and won't be the last.
Bottom line, he never failed a test on any event he won.
The outright lies are the worst part!
If had lost my left #ut, I would want all the PERFORMANCE enhancing I could find:-O
The outright lies are the worst part!
I was thinking more along the line of no new taxes, but I won't go there!
The outright lies are the worst part!
Just so happened that my brother . . . a very avid bicyclist, died of testicular cancer in 2003.
He feels the bike riding(poor design seats), caused it. I don't know.
Anyway, I watched what he went through and how he went downhill so fast.
I also watched how fast he recovered(temporarily), when I finally talked him into castration.
He got back to riding his bike for another 3-4 months before the evil devil of cancer got him . . . at an even much faster rate.
He even looked a lot like Lance Armstrong.
ANYWAY, I might have been a little biased when I first heard of the doping, but always felt that the doping, was in essence to make up for what the cancer had stolen . . . it all made sense to me.
I still hope the doping was a little more complicated than just enhancing performance.
The outright lies are the worst part!
Just a thought: the best way to not go there, is by not going there. Doing it and saying you won't just isn't the same. (But I'm not saying anything.) :whistle:
one of the reasons i don't follow sports.
