Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]MY athletes are ALL athletes, Didier. Gary Hall - boy - THERE'S a source! Adam On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:19 PM, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >