markvoss wrote:
Like everything else under the sun, Olympic and world class sports (FIFA) are all about politics, power, and money. Their distracting the media and lemming eyes on what happened in the past infers that it's all clean now, as if:
Look, we can even find previous cheats like an episode of CSI. And, already knowing that the majority of three generations of athletes were conveniently chemically-aided outside their own rules allows the For-Profits to go back and decide who they want to selectively punish by erasing results, who they want to selectively reward with moving them up the virtual podium, or who they conveniently use as a sacrificial lamb. Testing previous generations now holds something over the heads of athletes, coaches and trainers, and their national federations:
Better be loyal to the sport and its patrons and its sponsors--forever--and better not speak out about anything, or we might let slip some old test results. Runner's World (with its long-time Contributing Author, Frank Shorter) has been more-than-hinting about the 1976 Olympic Men's Marathon Champion and the seeming injustice of Shorter not officially being a Two-Time Gold Medalist. Consider
Runner's World's paid circulation of 710,618 as of 2012 when stacked up against the powers that be. That is, Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (1976 and 1980
Moscow)
Waldemar Cierpinski is now a member of the German Olympic Committee.
Like any commercial entities within cultures that have an expectation of fair play and justice, only the appearance of fair play and justice has to exist in the minds of the paying public (TV rights, sponsorships, ticket sales, merchandising, website hits sold to third-parties...)
Yet it has nothing to do with actual fair play or justice. Without any science necessary (other than preserving the deteriorating petroleum-based videotape), Park Si-Hun of South Korea,
not Roy Jones, is still the Light Middleweight Olympic Boxing Champion from Seoul 1988. The Union of Soviet Social Republics remains the Olympic Men's Basketball Champion from 1972 Munich. Whatever's best for the For-Profit institutions drives their rules and enforcement: politics, power, and money.
I think you're being a bit overly pessimistic here. I know you are not a swimmer but I feel pretty confident that virtually all the kids who make U.S. Oly Trials cuts have done so without any illegal aids. From there on up, there may be a few swimmers doping but again I think we would have heard about it through the swimming grapevine, vs the main things I hear from the college swimmers I know, e.g. "all I do is eat, sleep, swim, and study". Sure, there may be some small amount of doping going on in the U.S. swimming world but mostly these guys/girls are just busting their asses. Your comments make it sound like the Oly Games are just completely rigged, which I think is the reverse of the actuality. It would be impossible to actually arrange that 3-way tie for silver in the men's 100 fly, or the 2-way tie for gold in the women's 100 free. I believe that these two examples show unequivocally that fair play and justice still exist, at least in the races themselves.
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