Let The Cleansing Begin

"Richard Adams" wrote in message
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well, duh...
i guess it pays to fact check!!
david NOT robert millar.
despite the gaffe, a good piece nonetheless...
e-RICHIE

bad bad cut & paste-er...

In article , Richard
Sachs wrote:

a pal of mine penned this.
i'm posting here since he's not a usenet guy.
i'll link him with it and any/all replies once
it hits the google rbr archives.
e-RICHIE




Let The Cleansing Begin

The most recent round of drug scandals started with the tragic death of
Marco Pantani earlier in the year and was followed first with the EPO
revelations of Robert Millar and then Oscar Camenzind; the drug
investigation of recently retired Johan Museeuw; the high profile trial of
Dr. Michele Ferrari and now Tyler's ordeal. All of these events come on the
heels of the Festina affair and the admitted use of drugs by members of that
team, including Richard Virenque. What a farce! He should have been
permanently banned from the sport of cycling.

Are cycling fans that gullible or are they just clinging to the hope that
there are still a few clean riders left in the pro ranks? Sport as science;
athletes as guinea pigs.

Sport as science, or a more "scientific"/educated approach to training,
has enabled some pro riders to succeed without doping.

It is true that the penalties for doping are not severe enough and the
formal attempts to eliminate doping from cycling will never succeed.
Ultimately, the riders who choose to compete without doping are doing
so because they want to compete as a fair sportsman, not because they
are afraid they will be caught doping.

-WG

Richard Sachs wrote:
a pal of mine penned this.


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Ya, and your friend has his head up his ass.

Cleansing?

Unless drug use is 'cleansed' from the global culture at large, drug
use will continue to exist in any and all sports.

The values in sport mirror those held in the culture at large. Sport
does not exist in a vacuum.

Why do people fail to exist such an obvious and simple concept?
K. Gringioni

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:29:17 GMT, Richard Sachs wrote:
i'm posting here since he's not a usenet guy.

http://www.gettbird.com/ or
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ then
http://www.individual.net/

Or ask heather.

thanks, chris and the rest of you too.

the thread still doesn't show on the google archives so i can't
link Mr G with the follow-ups.

e-RICHIE




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