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
Dang. I guess all those corporate executives, inside traders, and other multimillion dollar scofflaws we've been seeing in the news in the past year or so weren't really cheating after all.
To suggest that having less money, in an of itself, increases the motivation (or the inclination to act on that motivation) to cheat in sports (or any other aspect of life) is, in my mind, utterly ridiculous. Having less money might mean that a person has had less opportunity to acquire skills with which to amass wealth, but that's a far cry from how or why a person makes an explicit choice to cheat.
Originally posted by Sam Perry
Is it me or is that last post offensive to all of you?
Yes, pretty much.
EDIT: and I'm still scratching my head as to why middle-class people have more upper body strength.
