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I am concerned about the 'Ban the athlete' hoo-haa. While I agree to a large extent, to all intents and purposes they are almost all "employees", part of an industry. Many times you hear that sport "is a way out and up" for the less fortunate - though not in this country in Olympic sports generally.
What is the difference with Bankers taking the rewards for cheating? Or should we ban anyone from shaving for not paying the tax due on imports?
There would appear to be a bigger industry in anti-doping at the moment, and results show this and like every other business it's cyclical. Runners used to carry weights to fix results when betting was more prevalent in that sport.
We seem to be living in extremely weird times, when only the most powerless are held responsible. Laws were never meant to make things "fair", in life or sport. Only now, the cost of a new law is so high only a few have access! Baseball, one of the richest sports did allow some enhancing drugs, caring not at all about the health of its players!
I like Tyson Gay, so it was disappointing he didn't dip when he should ie his performance was far from optimum. How do we stand on Pistorius? Isn't running an examination of lower limbs, like chess examines brain function! Could an imbecile use a computer at a chess tournament?
Or would that be cheating?
The Chinese/East Germans et al were doped by their government system. Now we have privatised sport and government, so why blame any athlete? Could you resist?
love'n'joy
Lloyd
What is the difference with Bankers taking the rewards for cheating? Or should we ban anyone from shaving for not paying the tax due on imports?
There would appear to be a bigger industry in anti-doping at the moment, and results show this and like every other business it's cyclical. Runners used to carry weights to fix results when betting was more prevalent in that sport.
We seem to be living in extremely weird times, when only the most powerless are held responsible. Laws were never meant to make things "fair", in life or sport. Only now, the cost of a new law is so high only a few have access! Baseball, one of the richest sports did allow some enhancing drugs, caring not at all about the health of its players!
I like Tyson Gay, so it was disappointing he didn't dip when he should ie his performance was far from optimum. How do we stand on Pistorius? Isn't running an examination of lower limbs, like chess examines brain function! Could an imbecile use a computer at a chess tournament?
Or would that be cheating?
The Chinese/East Germans et al were doped by their government system. Now we have privatised sport and government, so why blame any athlete? Could you resist?
love'n'joy
Lloyd
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