Robert wrote:
Yes, the rules are crap but the crappy rules are overruled by the crappy indifference of thousands, or worse, the large number of people who would give a non-responsive publicly funded agency unfettered control over their sporting lives. If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem. USADA and WADA are way out of control, but no one cares. Congress certainly does less oversight than my local police over traffic (which is almost non-existent). Good luck finding a way to influence USADA. I wrote to my Senator and he wrote back to say he felt we needed an organization like USADA, without addressing any of my concerns. The Senator's dead now, but the USADA lives on.
We should not be spending taxpayers' money to ensure the bourgeois ideal of clean competition for amateur athletes, except possibly Olympic athletes. Do you think the rich are cheating? Do you think people in the ghetto are cheating? And most of the bourgeois are cheating as well. We have a well-developed system of cheating in this country. If you want to stop cheating, then each individual must address his own failings first, but to spend government money to ensure that some triathlete gets his Kona slot is absurd. On this issue I am libertarian, but believe we should be using that money for something much more meaningful, even if it means a few thousand undocumented immigrants get vaccinated, for instance. We really have our priorities screwed up.... DHEA has no ergogenic value. NONE. De natha. There is no justification for it being on the list, and the history of asthma meds, including a USA swimmer losing gold because of a rule that has since been finally changed by an out of control Puritanical drug agency is mind numbing.
I cannot believe people in a supposedly free country actually support such nonsense.
-Robert
I'll give you a "hell yeah!!!!!"
well said. I smiled when you said the Senator died. thanks