Marion Jones will admit in court today that she cheated during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney by taking illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I hope they strip her of her medals and give her a life time ban from competition. For years and years she lied and gave interviews boldly stating that the accusations against her were racially driven and all the while she was immersed in a very complex cheating program.
Another pathetic example of winning at any cost....
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Marion Jones will admit in court today that she cheated during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney by taking illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I hope they strip her of her medals and give her a life time ban from competition. For years and years she lied and gave interviews boldly stating that the accusations against her were racially driven and all the while she was immersed in a very complex cheating program.
Another pathetic example of winning at any cost....
sports.yahoo.com/.../news
I really had hoped that Marion Jones didn't lie, and that she didn't take "performance-enhancing" drugs. I had hoped the same about Floyd Landis. I have stated on this forum that I believed innocence until guilt is proven.
I now recognize that I have been naive. I have been proven wrong too often with elite-level athletes denying their cheating. Well, no longer. I am a hardened cynic now. Maybe this is my over-reaction (see Freud's "narcissism of small differences"), but I am so tired of this. :dedhorse:
What really bothers me that children and the easily-impressioned might come to believe that the only road to winning is by cheating, rather than by hard work, good coaching, and mental focus.
That is simply wrong. The evil athletes (among whom I now count Marion Jones and Landis) not only diminish themselves, but they cut the heart out of fair competition for us all. I respect athletes who achieve their goals by working hard. I hate those who cheat.
Marion Jones will admit in court today that she cheated during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney by taking illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I hope they strip her of her medals and give her a life time ban from competition. For years and years she lied and gave interviews boldly stating that the accusations against her were racially driven and all the while she was immersed in a very complex cheating program.
Another pathetic example of winning at any cost....
sports.yahoo.com/.../news
I really had hoped that Marion Jones didn't lie, and that she didn't take "performance-enhancing" drugs. I had hoped the same about Floyd Landis. I have stated on this forum that I believed innocence until guilt is proven.
I now recognize that I have been naive. I have been proven wrong too often with elite-level athletes denying their cheating. Well, no longer. I am a hardened cynic now. Maybe this is my over-reaction (see Freud's "narcissism of small differences"), but I am so tired of this. :dedhorse:
What really bothers me that children and the easily-impressioned might come to believe that the only road to winning is by cheating, rather than by hard work, good coaching, and mental focus.
That is simply wrong. The evil athletes (among whom I now count Marion Jones and Landis) not only diminish themselves, but they cut the heart out of fair competition for us all. I respect athletes who achieve their goals by working hard. I hate those who cheat.
