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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Give up on going after (potential) cheating of the past. Focus on the present. If he did cheat, everyone else was also cheating, most likely. You can't change the past, but you can change the present
As of right now, I'd still tend to think he's innocent. No positive tests, everyone who would testify against him has so much to gain by doing so.
Baseball has this problem too. MLB almost certainly knew that McGuire and Sosa, etc, were taking stuff, and chose to turn a blind eye. You could argue that they encouraged it. However, now those players are being shunned by the media, the league, and the public, and I don't think it's fair. McGuire, Bonds and Armstrong all have never failed a drug test. It's time to let them all be and let them keep their records instead of wasting time on resources on them.
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As far as I'm concerned McGuire, Bonds and Sosa and the commissioner of baseball should all be put in jail. They ruined a great game.
Armstrong, probably being stripped of his titles is good enough as from what I hear everyone was cheating and had been cheating for years.
As for the Olympics, all I can say is that the US and the USSR etc. had great medical researchers and doctors to get away with their cheating for years. There were rumours Ben Johnson had a drink spiked before his race. He had a good doctor who had guided him successfully through tests for years so why did he get caught this time? Yeah sure he was cheating but so was everyone else.