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Originally Posted by JohnnyFlame
Her losing her medals would be a big a joke as was Johnson losing his. He was the fastest plain and simple --won the race and won it by competing by the rules at the time and now. The rules of the game were long since established --want to win then you do what EVERY other guy/girl does to win. Judging them on who has the best pharmacist/lawyer is crap.
As is putting your head in the sand and not acknowledging the score. They ALL cheat so that in effect makes it a level playing field. Thus the winner IS indeed the winner. She beat the other cheats so whoppee she got so called caught -she still won!!
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Except Johnson like Jones didn't compete by the rules period. If Steroids were in the rules then there wouldn't be testing. Now you can counter argue in the case of Johnson that Carl Lewis who eventually got the medal was exposed as a cheater as well, however at the time he tested negative for any performance enhancing drugs.
They may all cheat, but the proof is in the pudding for a lot of athletes in that they either don't get caught, or don't use the stuff because it dosen't show up in the testing. If your going to be fair, you've got to be fair on the side of the people that don't break the rules.
I've always been a proponent of having 2 Winter Olympics and 2 summer Olympics once every 2 years on a rotating basis. One Olympics is for clean athletes. Strict rules and stricter testing are used with strict punishment. The other allows you to use performance enhancing drugs, genetic engineering, bionic implants, cruel methods of punishment, whatever it takes to win.
Imagine a swimmer with webbed feet and a blow hole. Or a sprinter with spring mounted titanium bionic legs, or a high jumper with legs 6 feet long, or a boxer with a 7 inch thick skull.
You could also exterminate the losers because thier experimentation was a failure.
Thinking about that, it would be pretty damn cool to see a woman marathoner who weighed 40 pounds and had three lungs. or a high diver with a bullet shaped head.
Cool.