Wait, are you really suggesting that increasing your chances of continued life is cheating. 😆
llary and Tenzing are lauded as heroes, yet they used bottled oxygen (artificially increasing the blood's ability to carry oxygen) to improve their performance and summit Everest. And in doing so effectively robbed Messner of the (clean) first ascent. If a cyclist artificially increases his blood's ability to carry oxygen the same public brandish him a cheat. Go figure.
Come off it - that's hardly like for like is it??
A. Using 02 at 8000ms helps keep you alive.
B. It's not against the rules.
The use of supplementary oxygen was premeditated.
It was also thought to be essential until later proven otherwise.
Nor was it hidden or denied.
Yes and it took Messner to prove otherwise.
Good article in today's Times about the morals and ethics within professional sport and the rather startling admission from a very high percentage of people in surveys that given the choice between winning dirty and losing clean, they'd choose to win dirty.
Page 62.
You've lost me johnny met - I've no idea what point you're trying to make.
Yes and it took Messner to prove otherwise.
Using O2 to climb isn't against the rules - using EPO, Andriol, Cortisone, HGH, & Actovegin in pro-cycling is..
So, the question is: are you honestly trying to legitimise LA's illegal drug use by comparing it to the 1953 ascent of Everest & it's use of legal supplemental O2?
REALLY???
When my son was a newborn he had supplemental oxygen in an incubator, but yesterday came top in a spelling test. I should probably write to the school and ask them to expel him.
Johnny Met's article saying that athletes who dope are just trying to win is a bit poorly founded imo.
Yes, they want to win, yes we had a spectacle, yes it might be better if everyone doped. But that's not the point. The point is there are rules, and they were knowingly broken. Sport is nothing without rules.
How much slack would you cut someone who ducked under the tape at an MTB race to win?
Just using some thought experiments to highlight the dichotomy. I don't think my comments/ article have been interpreted in context they were intended. No worries.
Fair dos, I'll read your article when I get home. Maybe it'll be clearer then 🙂
A 30-minute documentary, Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead, will be broadcast on BBC News at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 29 January, and again over the following days on that channel and BBC World News. An extended edit of Dan Roan's interview will also be available on the BBC iPlayer.
It is begining to feel like the BBC are Armstrong's promotion company, every time I look at the BBC website sports pages there is another article sympathising with him.
hes my hero.
How much slack would you cut someone who ducked under the tape at an MTB race to win?
The spirit of enduro init.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/31125348
Anyone else think it'd be really funny if LA went to jail for crashing a car but not for doping charges.
Bit like sending Capone down for tax evasion...