Galic Ho said:
Good point. Forgot about the cross borders stuff. My bad. Few of the riders live in France and the ones who do look remarkably cleaner than the rest. I stand corrected.
I was also reading Ashenden's nyvelocity article about Contador. He seems to hold a similar viewpoint. He didn't talk you around did he? I liked his viewpoint that he didn't believe all athletes and cyclists would inherently go out of their way to out dope their rivals but instead they did it because they are by products of a system that has disillusioned them in a separate way that it has fans. That the system means they can't readily compete clean. I get that...how pliable that really is comes down to a number of unmeasurable aspects. But he made some nice points.
Oh and he also cleared up all the Contador stuff. Got no doubt now as to what happened. Sad really. Technicalities ruling the day. I also liked the apparent ideology behind the science he mentioned. Being that it is almost impossible to replicate your natural haemoglobin and reticulocyte levels with a blood doping, epo microdosing and blood plasma program. It made it clear that all people doing it have tells. All of them. Sounds like the only people clear are the ones who were zeros on the UCI suspicion list. Add the two together and this sport really is sad. It isn't any cleaner than we've been told.
Galic Ho, I see you where I was as a whipper snapper, until the eyes grew jaunidiced and I needed a spoon to pull em, like in a jail mess hall as in Chopper.
1. States have authorised doping and performance from immemorial. Propaganda.
2. States dope their armed forces.
3. Pepsi, or Coke, or IBM fund the champions. And I intentionally reference IBM (c lenovo)
Cos, I can forsee an arms race. I think as China gets the handle of the gold medal league tables, the US'o'A, aint gonna sit back and take that shiiiiiiiiiiit. I know they cant throw money behind healthcare, but they will find some way, to rectify this weakness.
GE? they own NBC, who pay billions for tv rights. Or the cables, Murdoch. They need the gold. They need that mirror to the exceptionalism.
It aint individuals breaking the law. Look at the corporations that are involved in the business of sport, and consuming a can of coke in your city's key stadium. This is why Andy Murray and Usain Bolt and Nadal and Armstrong complain about testing. Because they know they are supposed to dope, they know they are supposed to get a wide berth, they are supposed to get tests convered up, etc.
IT
IS
NOT
a
conspiracy.
It is realism. This is how it is. I disagree with the ethics btw. I prefer sport to be wholesome, and indealist, and zero contravention of regulation. But that is profound naivety
I think well over half the Australian Olympic team, will be on something that, technically speaking, the regulations do not permit them to take. A more, intimate consideration, I think it would be closer to 100% than 50%. And if you take the difference, 75%, I still think that is underestimating it. It is not about the individual personalities.
We have type 1, alpha personalities. Remember Stephanie Rice "take that f@ggots" and her picture of herself in the swimsuit on twitter. U know Inge de Bruijn used to swan around the pool deck, and wore a whit eswimsuit (do a google image search), the white swimmer is training, we are talking about. But the swimdeck preening, and the white one-piece, she was acting like the world was looking at her and she was gods gift.
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