I know Bishop said "anyone who makes an Olympic thread outside the official thread is banned until the end of the games." I'm willing to take that chance.
Did anyone catch Costas at the end of NBC's coverage last night? He had a tirade on dopers, basically based, but not limited to, the russian girl who cheated for the gold in Shot Put.
The Shot Put was held on sacred ground that the original Olympics was held. As you may or may not know, women weren't allowed to compete in the original games, nor the first (first time was 1900 I think). He thought it was ironic that the winner of the first gold in womens on the sacred ground was caught cheating. He relayed a story of the original cheaters. Seems they were fined by the council, and that money was used to build a statue of Zeus in front of the grounds. The cheating athlete's name was chiseled into the base of his Zeus statue. That let the world know forever that the athelete was a cheater.
Bob extrapolated that perhaps all athlete's urine samples should be frozen from here on out, and continuously tested. That would ensure anyone who could get past today's tests, would fail tomorrow's tests retroactively. Wouldn't that be a hell of a deterrent? Your name would be infamous if you could pass 20 years of tests before failing. Your medal would be revoked, your name shamed because you took such great measures to cheat, and medals recalculated.
You may remember my previous topics on sports stars making too much money. Hell, I'd pay a ton just to see clean athletes compete. It seems there is more sport in beating tests rather than the sport itself. Perhaps Bob's idea is not so crazy. It seems like it would be a hell of a deterrent. Who wants their children to get their inherited gold medals yanked because they couldn't do it on their own?
We know there are drugs out there that can't be tested for. Drastic actions call for drastic measures. Fuck the cheaters in my opinion. Wether or not it takes 100 years to catch them, it's better to catch them than to cover it up (Carl Lewis) or not find out at all.
Did anyone catch Costas at the end of NBC's coverage last night? He had a tirade on dopers, basically based, but not limited to, the russian girl who cheated for the gold in Shot Put.
The Shot Put was held on sacred ground that the original Olympics was held. As you may or may not know, women weren't allowed to compete in the original games, nor the first (first time was 1900 I think). He thought it was ironic that the winner of the first gold in womens on the sacred ground was caught cheating. He relayed a story of the original cheaters. Seems they were fined by the council, and that money was used to build a statue of Zeus in front of the grounds. The cheating athlete's name was chiseled into the base of his Zeus statue. That let the world know forever that the athelete was a cheater.
Bob extrapolated that perhaps all athlete's urine samples should be frozen from here on out, and continuously tested. That would ensure anyone who could get past today's tests, would fail tomorrow's tests retroactively. Wouldn't that be a hell of a deterrent? Your name would be infamous if you could pass 20 years of tests before failing. Your medal would be revoked, your name shamed because you took such great measures to cheat, and medals recalculated.
You may remember my previous topics on sports stars making too much money. Hell, I'd pay a ton just to see clean athletes compete. It seems there is more sport in beating tests rather than the sport itself. Perhaps Bob's idea is not so crazy. It seems like it would be a hell of a deterrent. Who wants their children to get their inherited gold medals yanked because they couldn't do it on their own?
We know there are drugs out there that can't be tested for. Drastic actions call for drastic measures. Fuck the cheaters in my opinion. Wether or not it takes 100 years to catch them, it's better to catch them than to cover it up (Carl Lewis) or not find out at all.
