Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Didier Ludwig 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, The best way to show your concern for the athletes is to get rid of the cheaters. so what is the disgust for Adam ? Is it the fact that we prefer meaningful testing to good sounding talk? Steve >> >> >> Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information