Here is a link that talks about the current drug-usage issue in Track & Field and contrasts it with U.S. swimmers' relatively clean image. It's is a bit of a fluff piece, and some of it seems doubtful, but it is something to chew on.
www.sfgate.com/.../article.cgi
-LBJ
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Originally posted by Tom Ellison
I didn't read a whole lot of fluff in Scott Ostler's piece. Money plays a huge role in many sports and in life in general. Having said that, let us all face the facts....I have never met a swimmer who started swimming for the money.
Your missing the point, we don't do it for the money because there is NO money.
In other countries - where swimming can lead to big payoffs - that is not the case. On the world scene cheating is just as rampent in swimming as it is in T&F. Though it appears that in some cases the atheletes did not know they were cheating!
Originally posted by Tom Ellison
I didn't read a whole lot of fluff in Scott Ostler's piece. Money plays a huge role in many sports and in life in general. Having said that, let us all face the facts....I have never met a swimmer who started swimming for the money.
Your missing the point, we don't do it for the money because there is NO money.
In other countries - where swimming can lead to big payoffs - that is not the case. On the world scene cheating is just as rampent in swimming as it is in T&F. Though it appears that in some cases the atheletes did not know they were cheating!
