10-23-2012, 02:10 PM
mattkime wrote:
A number of posts implied limited implications due to doping. just to be clear -
a) lance's cancer may have been due to taking testosterone
b) cyclists have died due to doping. EPO and other methods aim to increase red blood cell count. if its too high your bood is likely to clot while you sleep which is potentially lethal.
c) a doping allowed league would get ugly really really quickly. how many competitors would need to die before it was considered cruel?
d) people are more interested in a sport they can participate in. the rules should be the same from the pros down to the casual amateurs
They should not allow doping for the simple fact that it's not healthy. Period. It shows the character of the governing body when that isn't their top priority. The proof is in how they rarely express that. Now, they never really caught him. But their arrogance won't allow them to ever say "We don't know what the hell we're doing." "We don't know how to catch the most sophisticated doper." "We're incompetent, yet we'd like our circumstantial, anecdotal and hearsay evidence to stand as factual proof of guilt." I can't stand people like this. I definitely can't stand crybabies and tattletales. Losers.