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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At this point the rules are no doping. Until they have two olympics ('natural' and 'juicer'), the people who enter agree to the rules, and if they get caught red-handed, well, too bad for them.
Not to be overly cynical, but what make us think that the 'juicers' wouldn't enter the 'natural' olympics?
All the above being said, I think we should all do our best to not buy the trade rags, and books that will pay Marion to give them "exclusive rights" to her trails and travails.
I wish the last and only thing we hear about this is the broadcast of her having to return all of her medals to the International Olympic Committee.
Including the money she took from Conte/BALCO when they settled after she sued them for defamation.
I wonder if the settlement agreement can be vitiated for fraud.
That not a solution. Who's going to want to watch, advertise for, or compete in an "Aided Olympics?" Other than as a freak show, perhaps.
Body Building tried to do this. The one that failed was the clean version. :shakeshead: Go figure.
Body Building tried to do this. The one that failed was the clean version. :shakeshead: Go figure.
Do you have more details? What was the story, not enough competitors, sponsors, advertisers, all of the above, etc.?
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.
Do you have more details? What was the story, not enough competitors, sponsors, advertisers, all of the above, etc.?
Best I remember it was both. The size difference between the two competition was emormous and the "clean" athletes were unimpressive.:shakeshead: It lasted only a few years.
