Re: Tour de Dope
- From: "Tony S." <email_tonys@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:04:57 GMT
"Doug Freese" <dfreese@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"This year's Tour has lost at least two teams, the winners of four stages
and the overall leader."
Precisely why I refused to even watch the tour this year although I love
the sport and a close friend calls to tell me how exciting it has been
this year(before the scandals). Maybe they need to add a red jersey for
the teams or players that have been caught and make them to continue but
ride in shame. It will be interesting to see what happen within the sport.
Will the dollar signs and prestige continue to drive the riders to side
with the Valdermort, dark lord.
You been watching HP with the grandkids again Doug? ;)
You would think they would at least learn to store their own blood for the
drink that refreshes during the race. How dumb can you get..............
Rhetorical. I hear Vince McMann wants to purchase the Tour and make it
part of the WWF non-sport circus.
-Doug
Yea, the doping scandal in cycling is a goddamned mess. Last year I was a
Floyd fan - had been before that when he was a domestic for Armstrong, and I
was excited to hear about his comeback breakaway mountain stage victory and
was looking forward to watching it on tape, but by the time I got the tape
from my cousin, the scandal had broken and my enjoyment of that stage was
ruined.
The one thing is that the testing organizations aren't exactly above
reproach either, both in their public pre-judgments in some cases, and in
altering the scientific parameters of tests in other cases. I also thing
that some of the tests are on a poor scientific footing anyway: biology
isn't rocket science; it's far more complicated! The idea that testing is
accurate and straightforward in all cases *and* above politics is wrong, and
the public doesn't understand that.
But really, exactly how dumb could Vino be to use someone else's blood?!
Mistake of the wrong blood bag perhaps. In any case I didn't really like him
anyway, nor did I like Rasmussen, though he was kicked out for failing to
give his whereabouts accurately, not a positive drug test. I think this
points to the future of anti-doping - the big brother system.
You'd have to track the athletes like criminals, with monitoring whereabouts
24/7, and weekly (or more frequent) testing, etc. The tests themselves will
never catch every substance, and if they're being altered to catch more
people based on that desire and not on science, that's a guilty until proven
innocent system and who wants that really. While it's true there are few
examples of false positives so far, without science, politics and special
interests will take over as they always do in practice and in law.
Going back in time - was Hinault a doper? Merckx? Armstrong? In the early
years of the tour de France, they would stop at pubs and get tanked (go
figure). Doping has always been in sport, though now with medical science
where it is, it has changed, yes. I hate to think a big brother society for
athletes is the only way to go, but the other choice is to let them
experiment and just stop publicizing it.
-Tony
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