Floyd says...you've got to legalise doping

[Dear Wiggo]

Legalize doping??!! Are you f-ing serious??!! They might as well legalize drug trafficking and dealing. Tell that to the fine people at Interpol.

Floyd, go take another EPO shot. Your lack of schooling is really showing.

Very old thread.

 

[rhubroma]

I don't understand the mock outrage. Floyd has said in interviews that he wasn't sorry about doping. He is, like many others, a person who feels given the efforts made to combat doping nothing can be done.

One cannot judge his statements as absolutes in a best-case scenario. How would one go about stopping the rampant corruption within the governing bodies and labs? If there was no corruption within these institutions, I would argue that Landis is ethically incorrect. But look at the crap the SI article uncovered-how is one supposed to combat doping under those circumstances?

It's ridiculous.

He is a cynic, in the classic sense: when ideals are no longer tenable because experience and reality sets in, one doesn't give themselves over to hypocrisy or quixotic scemes.