Hardy Withdrawals From Olympic Team!

As for Hardy - I don't know. I think perhaps her withdrawl is not as selfish as you are all making it out to be. She is the only one that can know with 100% certainty whether or not she did something intentionally wrong. Unless she synthesized the drugs herself she procured them from somewhere, and that somewhere is probably selling them illegally and might therefore cooperate with law enforcement in seeing who their other clients were, so we might see other athletes brought down. The system ought to be set up to undermine the trust between the various parties involved in these transactions so that we'd get more Balcos. I would have more faith in JH if she were willing to make her denials in a context where there were legal ramifications (e.g. perjury charges or charges of obstructing an investigation) for lying. I don't know if that is legally possible to do. Perhaps USADA could offer $50k to anyone who can prove a PED was delivered to an Olympic athlete. It might be more effective than going purely with testing.

As for Hardy - I don't know. I think perhaps her withdrawl is not as selfish as you are all making it out to be. She is the only one that can know with 100% certainty whether or not she did something intentionally wrong. Unless she synthesized the drugs herself she procured them from somewhere, and that somewhere is probably selling them illegally and might therefore cooperate with law enforcement in seeing who their other clients were, so we might see other athletes brought down. The system ought to be set up to undermine the trust between the various parties involved in these transactions so that we'd get more Balcos. I would have more faith in JH if she were willing to make her denials in a context where there were legal ramifications (e.g. perjury charges or charges of obstructing an investigation) for lying. I don't know if that is legally possible to do. Perhaps USADA could offer $50k to anyone who can prove a PED was delivered to an Olympic athlete. It might be more effective than going purely with testing.