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, you have to ask how we’ve managed to elevate sport to a point where some participants genuinely appear to believe that it is a matter of life and death.
As Shankly famously explained, sport is much, much more important than that.
The Armstrong thing – ‘Lance said this, so anyone saying similar must be as culpable as he was’ – is kind of pointless. As you might expect, he basically said what you’d expect a clean athlete to say. What else would he have said ‘Yes, I’m a doper, but don’t tell anyone’?
The quote I used was pertinent because of the timing - it was from when he was proven to be lying about the L-Carnitine. Essentially, we can't have cheated, there's no failed drugs test.
I agree with the points about top level athletes needing to be exploring all legal means to get the best results, but in Mo's L-Carnatine case, he either didn't know if it was legal or not, hence lying, or such activities were so common place he genuinely doesn't remember getting a series of injections prior to London Marathon
Minor thread resurrection this popped up on YT:
And made me think of this thread, looks like Salazar & Nike are as much on the hook for bullying/abuse as they are for doping...
What's Barry Fudge got to say about it?
It does appear to be an issue for sports as a whole, BC don't look good under the spotlight with how they have treated female athletes in the past for example.
But for any organisation not to have independent doctors and sports psychologists looking after the welfare of the athletes seems like a wilful negligence on their behalf. That Nike project seems rotten to the core.