triathlonshots wrote:
FJB wrote:
I could name some other non-American sports and certain countries which had or still have problems with drugs in sports.
Yeah but could you name a single sport or country free of drugs in sports?
that is a tough one, lets say Pitcairn island id PED free? But really I think some sports don't lend themselves so well to PEDs. Like say golf which requires a lot of technique, a calming drug may help but i doubt it and it is a bigger money making sport than cycling. To me cycling is very prone to PED use, because the benefit is always going to show in results. PED use in say olympic triathlon is less usefull than say ironman distance I would say.
Some countries have histories of very high PED use like the eastern block countries before the wall come down. But there are others also.
I am dissapointed in the extent of the now proven allegations against LA but I don't see him as a reflection of USA sports people. He is a reflection of professional cycling and as the top benefactor of it, the public, sponsors, fans, cyclists etc need to know the truth.
G.
I posted this earlier somewhere, but golfers have experimented with PED's. There have been rumors (And rumors only) that a few of the more built golfers have used steroids, and in the book "A Good Walk Spoiled", they talked with a golfer (I forget which one, one of the top golfers around 1993ish) that said he had experimented with beta blockers to keep HR controlled, but then he couldn't get that good surge when he needed it.
Daly (Not that anyone really pays attention to him) had a big stink when he was suspended accusing tour players of all kinds of PED's and was going to be a whistleblower but nobody really paid attention.
John
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