Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 8, 2006 14:41:54 GMT -5
Track and field and cycling are the only sports that really seem like they want to get a handle on doping. Consequently, the perception that so many in those sports are illegal, which probably is true, but you hope many who participate in those sports are not trying to get an unfair advantage. With an event like the Tour de France it is such a grueling test of endurance, especially when it comes to multiple rides in the mountains, that it takes a mutant to pull it off. Lance seems to have been such a mutant, but even he got bad press especially in France, because they couldn't believe anybody could dominate like that.
However, when we come to our professional sports of baseball, football, and basketball, does anybody think they are tested as rigorously as in the sports mentioned above? If they catch too many cheaters and give them substantial sentences (track and field is talking about going back to their four year suspension for a first offense), will the perception be that our main professional sports are filled with cheaters and interest in the sports wane?
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 10, 2006 13:40:06 GMT -5
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 10, 2006 14:35:57 GMT -5
Oh, that's cruel!
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