WADA - "Doping should not be a criminal offense"

[PremierAndrew]

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Victimless crimes should not result in prison sentencing.

So if a clean athlete is prevented from having a successful career due to a doper, is it still a victimless crime?

 

[Ramon Koran]

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Victimless crimes should not result in prison sentencing.

So if a clean athlete is prevented from having a successful career due to a doper, is it still a victimless crime?

No however you can't blame the athlete as you can argue had he not taken the drugs he himself would not have had a successful career due to other dopers. At the end of the day you have to make a decision take drugs and earn a living or quit. That's why imo more leniency towards athletes who dope is needed definitely not prison sentences.

 

[King Boonen]

WADA are right.

 

[DirtyWorks]

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The actual 'doping' part is already addressed in various ways by all nations, and it doesn't matter whether the 'doper' is an athlete or not.

It is? Anyone busted for distributing EPO for use as a PED recently? No. Voters don't want athletes prosecuted.

If doping were a criminal offense, then every country's major sports federations would panic. Multinational crimes are prosecuted all the time.

Reedie's game is to keep doping under the domain of the IOC where it can flourish. The problem is, this becomes fertile ground for organized crime.

 

[Benotti69]

WADA president Sir Craig Reedie's 'comfort' email to Russia's most senior drug-buster reveals toothless clampdown on doping


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3207651/WADA-president-Sir-Craig-Reedie-s-comfort-email-Russia-s-senior-drug-buster-reveals-toothless-clampdown-doping.html#ixzz3quAQdy45

Sporting corruption is rife.

Sport is organised fraud and a crime. It is the sporting mafia. FIFA, IOC, UCI, IAAF, LTA, etc...

 

[buckle]

The Americans and British should invade a country which fails to comply with their own rigorous anti-doping standards.

 

[SeriousSam]

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Victimless crimes should not result in prison sentencing.

So if a clean athlete is prevented from having a successful career due to a doper, is it still a victimless crime?

Proving that someone's use of performance enhancing drugs prevented a clean athlete from having a successful career in a court sounds difficult.

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

What next, will WADA tell Singapore they can't outlaw chewing gum in public? Considering how badly they have bollocksed the execution of their primary charter, the controlling doping in sport, I'd say WADA hardly have any standing to dictate matters of law to sovereign governments.

UK's gaming laws permit gambling on just about anything, say, whether extraterrestrials will be discovered before 01 January 2005. Any and all athletic competitions certainly are fair game. If it affects the earnings prospects of the clean athletes, and the winning chances of the gamblers who wager on them, explain to me how it is victimless. Calling it "victimless" is factless hyperbole.

Proving that someone's use of performance enhancing drugs prevented a clean athlete from having a successful career in a court sounds difficult.

Only in that most doping goes undetected. Two things seem to me to be patently obvious. 1, On the whole, clean athletes can't beat the dopers (provided they're doping competently), and 2, The act of disqualifying all of the dopers undoubtedly will increase the earnings of the clean athletes.