Recent content by Bobito_B

Only Spaniards and Italians and some miscreant Americans and Northern Europeans dope.

In chess one has to concentrate very hard for extended periods of time. Taking drugs is very helpful, so there's a good reason to dope. The same is true in professional poker.

Call me an American, but I thought everybody did this.

When a 15 year old breaks a world record by 2 minutes, at whatever distance, someone is cheating (I´m talking about the American, by the way).

In Spain one votes for a party. The party gets a number of seats in the Senate according to how many votes it gets. Marta Dominguez was on the list, but that doesn't mean anybody was really voting for her. In any case the Spanish senate is an ornamental body, and nobody really knows what it...

I didn't write the quote you attribute to me.

This is quite funny. I was commenting on their popularity, not the likelihood they were dopers ... odd how easy it is to confuse the two ...

The view from Spain is very different. Our model footballer is Iniesta.

This is not very true. Most people in Spain are either for Barca or for Madrid. In either case they have 11-15 sporting idols that rank ahead of Contador. Or one can take the intersection, which is the Spanish national side. Certainly Iniesta, Xavi, Casillas, etc. Then there are Rafal Nadal and...

A few days ago now Real Sociedad's ex-president denounced them for having had a teamwide doping program, and explicitly linked them to Fuentes. Since then every day the papers in Spain have had articles in which Xabi Alonso has denied that Real Sociedad (his original club) ever had a doping...

^ This is why England can't win internationally.