Who's head grows four helmet sizes bigger in their mid thirties?
Barry Bonds, that's who:
Please read this.
If the news that Barry Bonds has been using steroids comes as a surprise to you, welcome back from the coma you've been in. Here is a list of how much Barry Bonds made over the years:
Salary
1992-4,800,000
1993-4,516,666
1994-5,166,666
1995-8,166,666
1996-8,416,667
1997-8,666,667
1998-8,916,667
1999-9,381,057
2000-10,658,826
2002-15,000,000
2003-15,500,000
2004-18,000,000
2005-22,000,000
These figures don't include sponsorship dollars.
The Race Club would like to file a class action law suit against Barry Bonds, and all athletes that test positive for performance enhancing, illegal drugs, on behalf of all clean athletes. The money and exposure that Barry Bonds has "earned" has been taken from clean athletes. Clean athletes don't get these opportunities and I believe that it is theft. Am I the only one? Barry Bonds is a cheater and a thief.
HELP!
The clean athletes need your help! Particularly, we need the help of a lawyer that is willing to take this on as a pro bono case. If we triumph in the courts the lawyer will be rewarded along with the athletes. If we don't we still send out the message that there are still clean athletes out there that are opposed to this behavior. Remember, clean athletes don't make the money that a cheater does. We need to let people know that this is not okay. Sport is in jeopardy if we do nothing.
We must file a class action lawsuit on behalf of clean athletes. Clean athletes must bond together to fight this scourge plaguing our sports. We must put a face to the victims, the clean athletes. We must let young athletes know that it is not okay to cheat and steal and if you do you will be punished, not rewarded with multimillion dollar contracts.
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How can Victor Conte and his cronies get away with manufacturing and distributing massive amounts of illegal drugs with only a few months sentence or probation? If they were dealing in any other illegal, equally harmful substance they would be given life sentences without question.
What is wrong with our legal system? What is wrong with our fan base? How can we let these people get away with this? Barry Bonds is about to wipe out the records of baseball's greatest athletes, Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, and all the other clean athletes before him. His records should not stand. It's not okay. We must do something. If the sport's governing bodies won't do anything then it is up to us, the athletes.
Victor Conte leaving the court house
The list of dirty athletes continues to grow, rapidly. Barry Bonds is the most recent addition to the likes of Ken Caminiti, Marion Jones, Jose Conseco, Lawrence Taylor, Mark McGwire, Bill Romanowski, Tim Montgomery, and Rafael Palmeiro to name a few. This is a short list of the high profile, highly paid cheaters that need to be held accountable for their actions.
For every one of these athletes there is a clean athlete that never got their shot at playing in the big leagues, of making the Olympic team, of living their lifelong dream, let alone the sponsorships, salaries and publicity.
The only consequences for these athletes admitting drug use has been a huge book deal and more publicity!
The Race Club will do our part to organize the athletes in this fight. We need legal help.
Please help! PLEASE.
Pass this request on to as many people as you know that are against our sport's growing trend of role models turning into drug crazed lunatics. I ask that clean athletes sign our petition. I ask for legal help. Please help us.
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How would you define who is clean? It it well known that the whole NFL was using illegal performance enhancing drugs.
The whole NFL? Every last player? I suspect you mean, "A great many NFL players used steroids." That would probably be accurate. But let's not paint with too broad a brush with accusations like these. The NFL isn't like some sports - most notably track and field - where many observors believe that steroid use is all but required to obtain world class status.
Originally posted by newmastersswimmer
I think that it is debatable as to whether or not marijuana should be considered a performance enhancing drug. I will be honest and admit that when I was a younger man I was guilty of partaking in a little marijane from time to time.....and I honestly never considered it to be performance enhancing....i.e. I didn't really consciously try and cheat like one who deliberately takes steroids for example....but I did go to practice under the influence of marijane on many occaissions....and thinking back on it now, I realize that it may have enhanced my ability to train harder....I guess you can kind of put yourself into a trance like state more easily when you're stoned....and this helps you to focus more on other things....like repetitive activities for example.....and it also seemed to have a numbing effect when it came to noticing the pain....maybe the trance-like state enabled me to not notice the pain?....or maybe the pot had an actual physical numbing effect?....I'm not sure.....but nonetheless, I think it did give me some advantages when I trained under the influence.....I can't take back what I've already done.....and its been many years since those infractions took place.....I do have some regrets about it now.....now that performance enhancing drugs of all kinds has become a more central issue in sports than it was back when I was using marijane......I hope that doesn't make me a cheater?.....It was never my conscious decision to try and pull one over on anyone....I mean I was just a stoner more or less....stoners never think that deeply about anything....its just food, sleep, cartoons, and whatever.
Newmastersswimmer
I don't think that anyone thinks htat marijuana is a performance- enhancing drug. However, it is as illegal as are steroids.
Kirk:
You make an interesting point and I don't think the IOC will overturn the decisions. In Tim McKee's case its a little different. The 1972 Olympics was the first Olympics that electronic timing was used for final decisions and rightly so judging from what happened to Lance Larsen in 1960. In the 400 IM both Gunnar Larsson and Tim McKee tied at 4:31.98 and at that time there were no rules to declare the winner. Because Omega could dismantle the timing device and upon inspection find out who won by the thousandth of a second. That is just what they did and Larsson was declared the winner by two-thousandths of a second.
Later upon analyzing this, it was found that lane lines and touch pads could vary ever so slightly as to not be an accurate measurement. That a faster than a blink of an eye would not be a fair judgement. An international rule change was made for the future. Tim McKee is the only one of six people that never received a gold medal in these exact circumstances. He is appealing and petitioning the IOC to be awarded the gold medal. The IOC has yet to overturn this decision.
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Originally posted by Frank Thompson
Later upon analyzing this, it was found that lane lines and touch pads could vary ever so slightly as to not be an accurate measurement.
Yes, that's why the tolerance on pool measurements is so critical. Consider this: if one lane is 1 cm shorter than another (about the length of a fingernail) the swimmer in the shorter lane will have to swim 8 cm less than the swimmer in the longer lane for a 400 long course meter event. That doesn't seem like much, but at the speeds McKee and Larson were swimming (4:32 for a 400, or 1.47 m/sec) that equates to a time difference of .05 seconds. The .002 time difference the timing system recorded amounts to a distance of only 3 mm.
Originally posted by knelson
This is a pretty interesting topic. I'm pretty torn about going back and changing past results in this and DeMont's case. My heart tells me Rick DeMont deserved a medal, but he DID violate the rules at the time. By the same token, if the rules allowed timing to .001 second at the time, those were the rules and it doesn't seem proper to overrule them now. Consider this: would it be fair to go back and strip anyone who false started (in an individual event) of their medals today? I mean, after all, false starts get you disqualified now.
Kirk:
I have been thinking about what your saying about Rick DeMont and you make some valid points. The 1972 Olympics was the first Olympics that drug testing was used so there were no precedents or decisons of the past that the IOC could follow. Because the US Olympic team doctors failed to cross reference the components of a medication (ephedrine) that was on the IOC list of banned substances, Rick failed the drug test and was stripped of the gold medal he won in the 400 Free and DQ'ed in the 1500 Free after qualifing for the final. I am not sure if this was the first case at an Olympics that an appeal was made and if this was the first case that it was beyond the athlete's control in drug testing.
Possibly, the IOC set a precedent at that time in that everything is black or white and there is no in between. Now supporters of this will say that this landmark decison would preclude all sorts of appeals in the future with similar circumstances and there should be no excuses regardless of how innocent the victim is.
Rick DeMont will always be a hero because he did not let this adversity affect his future performances. The next year 1973, at the first FINA World Championships in Belgrade, he won the 400 Free in a Word Record time of 3:58.18 and will always be remembered as swimmings first Roger Bannister for being the first swimmer under 4 minutes in the 400 meter Free.
Originally posted by mikeh
How would you define who is clean? It it well known that the whole NFL was using illegal performance enhancing drugs.
The whole NFL? Every last player? I suspect you mean, "A great many NFL players used steroids." That would probably be accurate. But let's not paint with too broad a brush with accusations like these. The NFL isn't like some sports - most notably track and field - where many observors believe that steroid use is all but required to obtain world class status.
Mikeh:
I would be willing to agree with you about track and field now being worse than the NFL. There is a joke among T&F athletes that the Olympics is not a contest between the fastest runners but rather who has the best pharmacist. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has issued random drug testing to the NFL clubs and that is a positive step in the right direction. However, back in the day there was no drug policy at all and clubs and players were free to do what they wanted when they wanted.
This is documented in both Steve Coursen book "False Glory" and Bill Romanowski book "My Life on the Edge--Living Dreams and Slaying Dragons", just to name a few. When you read these and other stories about the accusations that NFL players have said and testified before grand jurys and Congress, one is to believe that drug use in the NFL was as bad as what happened in East Germany in the 1970's and 1980's. I will provide links to these stories rather then rehash what has been said.
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Originally posted by Frank Thompson
After the 1972 Olympics it was decided that awarding races by one thousand of a second was not accurate and wrong to do so in the first place and in the future there would be ties if the time was identical to the one hundredth of a second.
This is a pretty interesting topic. I'm pretty torn about going back and changing past results in this and DeMont's case. My heart tells me Rick DeMont deserved a medal, but he DID violate the rules at the time. By the same token, if the rules allowed timing to .001 second at the time, those were the rules and it doesn't seem proper to overrule them now. Consider this: would it be fair to go back and strip anyone who false started (in an individual event) of their medals today? I mean, after all, false starts get you disqualified now.
