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the delgados said:what would you do, blackcat?
blackcat said:me, the relativist perspective?
Well, lets assume I rode in the peloton, and matched wits and pharmacy cabinets with them. Presumes I was open to indoctrination in the culture and ethics. Do I charge hard like Floyd and Dr Dave Bruylandts? Or do I do just enough to finish a GT. Say only "recovery therapy" as Dave Millar puts it oh so euphemistically.
First pov. I charge like a guy going for Mr Olympia. I get popped, something stuffed up, I did not mean to go positive obviously.
DENY, DENY, DENY. Then assess bank balance, and cost benefit ratio. Living in an Anglophone country, I know the population and fandom are more gullible. I get B tested. Then I probably try and get a lawyer thru the network at the national fed, to represent me.
Plan 1. Pull the Rabbit.
Second perspective. I have gone so far down the cesspool culture rabbit hole, I have no morals about shooting everyone to get me back. I use every trick in the book. I doped til I could have dropped Tommy Simpson, but I got popped instead. No compunction at pulling down those, if it gives me back my place in the peloton. Deny, use any excuse. Offer bribes. Anything. But never rat out the peloton.
Shoot the messengers, crapshoot the defense, shoot the father in law.
Third perspective.
Never lost any ethical or moral grounding. Come completely clean. Go into a different career. Thank your lucky stars you were rid of that lifestyle.
Got no idea. If anyone thinks they would take up the sport, go pro, want to make the Protour, ride GTs, and then refuse to dope, well, I admire the self confidence. Folks do that, and dont dope. But I dont think anyone could know what the decision would be, when placed with the inducements, and a slippery slope.
blackcat said:Ok, so you test positive. You had my soigneur Txema putting a heated testo patch on your nut sack post massage.
You fail the isotope test, after failing the screening test at 11:1 testo-epi.
How do you handle this. Defend? What strategies?