Peter70 said:
If, as an athlete you are better than your competitors, you normally beat them. If they take drugs to improve their performance, but are still not as good as you, then you still beat them. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. See G Obree for an obvious example. Kicked out of his pro team for refusing to dope. Still beat the curs on the track mind.
Andy Murray can still beat the doped Djoker, just not as often as he could when they were both clean youngsters before the serbian drug regime took hold.
Has freddy (got fingered) the frog ever apologised for their lies about a massive drugs ring run by british athletics in the early 1980's in Edinburgh yet? Anybody who knows anything about the way Scottish Athletics was run and the attitude towards Scottish sport by the english administrators wouldn't have given their insane rant more than a second's consideration before laughing themselves sick. It is a theorem worthy of David Ike on LSD. But on the clinic the usual suspects believe every word.
Peter, thank you for raising that point. I understand your need to exaggerate the account in order to attempt to propel it to unbelievablility, but sadly, you seemed to have missed some revelations.
"There is no truth in the allegations made about my involvement in 'acquiescing' to the use of drugs by athletes,'' **** said. "I have throughout my coaching career, when asked, educated athletes as to how these drugs work and the damage they do whilst also forcefully pointing out that taking such drugs to improve athletic performance is cheating.
"In my opinion such cheats should be banned for life. Explaining things to athletes in this way is not a unique concept, it is the basis of all education today."
Frank D i c k responding to allegations. So last we heard he was going to sue the Times, but that was all a long time ago. I wonder how he got on ?
Oh yes I remember now - exactly how he got on
he didn't sue them. He has had a few years to do it, but hasn't.
"Wot not even in the UK where the libel laws favour the plaintive ?"
"No, Frank has not sued".
And then since my piece - you seem to have totally missed that my suggestion, that Jimmy Ledingham was doping athletes whilst he was senior Medic on the British Olympic team, has been aired by Panorama. BBC putting it out on prime time TV. They did not play the tapes but had transcripts. And they went public and wudn't U have thunk it ! A Scottish icon was exposed.
"I can look back with substantial pride on my individual achievements. None of these medals were achieved with the aid of illegal performance-enhancing substances.
"Some of my contemporaries within the athletics team have been discredited by their own involvement in drug use. We won 4x100m relay gold for Scotland at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, but that medal will be forever tarnished in my mind by the admissions of McMaster and Jenkins.
[U talkin' about that Commonwealth record that stood for ages until the nice Jamaican sprint boys came along and Scottish Athletics still have in their record books despite 2 of the four confessing to being on the program ? Allan, how very dare they cast aspersions, them nasty people !]
Yes - Peter you must have missed the story
Allan Wells furiously denies doping slur
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/11625979/Allan-Wells-furiously-denies-BBCs-doping-slur.html
Wells reacted furiously after receiving a letter from BBC Scotland journalist Mark Daly, who is conducting an investigation for the Panorama programme,
alleging Wells and six other athletes were supplied with the banned steroid Stromba by James Ledingham, who was doctor to British Olympic sprinters at the Moscow Olympics.
So last I hear, Allan was suing Panorama. So let's vacate the seats we have sat in for over a decade waiting for
Ex British Athletics Head Coach Frank D i c k to sue the Times and pull up a chair to watch the fun as Wells sues the BBC.
[For a full resume of Frank **** please go here http://www.gordonpoole.com/Frank-***-OBE.aspx
Just seemed to have missed off all the connections to his partner in managing British Athletics Andy Norman and all the scandals that cling to what they did.]
Only Wells seems to have gone awful quiet. Last I heard a Scottish newspaper, after they had run lots of stories about "Wells denies", "Wells calls low-lifes who accuse him of doping of being jealous little trolls", "Wells accuses people of denigrating the very good, in fact near saintly Dr James Ledingham of being low life scum" offered Wells and one of his accusers, McMaster, to both go on a lie detector and be asked a load of questions. That seemed like a very good way of getting to the truth !
McMaster said "Yes"
and .............
Wells said "I have got some library books to change on that day".
And now, since he refused to go on the lie detector, Wells has gone all quiet.
Peter, perhaps you can tell us, when is Wells going to sue ? He has a tailwind and a slope behind him, surely it would be dead easy to put those pip-squeak BBC journalists in their place.
Alternatively you can offer me an apology and say - you know what Freddy, I never thought it was true about Allan Wells and the actual British Team Doctor being at the centre of it all and it being run out of Edinburgh - but I see you were right. It really does shed a different light on those Moscow and Los Angeles medals.
But of course you could just twist these words and invent some more stuff about what I wrote and then consume cyberspace pulling that apart, in order to sustain your personal belief system that wishes to exclude facts.
Tell me Peter - who was there at Meadowbank at the time with Jimmy Ledingham ? A clue is in the posting by others referencing Martin Vinnecombe. Does this person know Chris Hoy?