every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
illegal drug use seems to be paying off
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dodogoodgood1 wrote:
every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
In 1972, the Schaffer Commission released a report to then-Presdident Richard Nixon on Marijuana "abuse," recommending legalization of the drug:
Nixon ignored the findings, doubled down on the nascent war on drugs, and blamed their recommendation on "the Jews and the psychiatrists." (A matter of fact, whether it offends you or not...there are recordings of him saying it).
What else? He deputized Elvis--who was himself a massive drug addict--to help him prosecute the War on Drugs:
Flip ahead a few chapters and Ronald Regan, who was around people who snorted cocaine during his years as an actor in Hollywood, perfected the war on drugs. Like to toke up? Good luck getting a job!
And now, we are at the present day. More than half of all US states have legalized what Schaffer said should be legal, but anyone who has a job where you talk to anyone from the Federal government can be fired for doing something your state has decided should be legal. While your grandparents have more drugs in their medicine cabinet than Elvis did.
I know your post is about EPO, which isn't a controlled substance, just banned from competition. We conveniently overlook that most posters here skew liberal of the "my body my choice" variety. Shouldn't that include the substances they put in their body? Or do you just want the government and sporting agencies to regulate things most Americans wouldn't do, because they lack the drive to train hard in addition to taking PEDs?
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There is essentially no downside so you'd be foolish not to.
Start. You are nobody, come from nothing.
take what the agent tells you to take and cross your fingers you stand out from his next group of 20 athletes in development.
Possible reward is an extended period of time with substantial income and notoriety.
Finish: punishment is returning to being nobody and having nothing.
WADA, World Athletics and the AIU either can't or refuse to connect the loosely affiliated profiteering coaches, officials and agents to a full national sanction.
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1) WADA only does the rules, no testing, no prosecution.
2) The NADOs are patriotic, to put it mildly. Americans want Americans to be competitive at the Olympics.
3) The AIU was founded by WA, with their leaders hand-selected by Lord Coe.
4) WA is proud and delighted when each Olympics and World Championship is faster than the previous.
5) WA benefits strongly from each World Record.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = doping is good for business. The show must go on.
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1) WADA only does the rules, no testing, no prosecution.
2) The NADOs are patriotic, to put it mildly. Americans want Americans to be competitive at the Olympics.
3) The AIU was founded by WA, with their leaders hand-selected by Lord Coe.
4) WA is proud and delighted when each Olympics and World Championship is faster than the previous.
5) WA benefits strongly from each World Record.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = doping is good for business. The show must go on.
Counterpoint: Russia
There is definitely something underhanded going on keeping Kenya from being sanctioned, but I can't tell what that would be.
You'd think in the most US/Europe-centric way they would rather have the same benefit you describe but from most marketable jurisdictions?
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dodogoodgood1 wrote:
every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
What’s the best example of this? Letsrun is historically pretty anti doping. Can’t imagine anyone is being treated like a hero for doping.
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There is essentially no downside so you'd be foolish not to.
Start. You are nobody, come from nothing.
take what the agent tells you to take and cross your fingers you stand out from his next group of 20 athletes in development.
Possible reward is an extended period of time with substantial income and notoriety.
Finish: punishment is returning to being nobody and having nothing.
WADA, World Athletics and the AIU either can't or refuse to connect the loosely affiliated profiteering coaches, officials and agents to a full national sanction.
Repeat
You are, Not Wrong, not wrong...
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being a gay man and dressing up as a woman when you are a man are not the same thing. the vast majority of gay men wear men's clothes. if you had said transsexuals I might have agreed with the sentiment of your post.
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On the other hand: Alan Turing, Oscar Wilde, and Morrissey. Plus a transgender to be named later...
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Ehhhhh....giving you the pass on the baiting, but I'd bet one of those four names ends up on an internal "likely doping" but never caught list before their career is done.
Down vote away but I'd put my money on Keely.
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The price is not using is they get nothing. They use and get caught, they get something but canceled. Rhoenix made his choice.
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Ehhhhh....giving you the pass on the baiting, but I'd bet one of those four names ends up on an internal "likely doping" but never caught list before their career is done.
Down vote away but I'd put my money on Keely.
I'd say the most "likely doping" would obviously be Jakob considering that Henrik was put on the 'likely doping' list
I'd personally be incredibly devastated if Keely were doping
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You are just too obvious Coevett, at least try to learn some subtlety at this point so people can take you seriously.
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Prepare to go home devastated.
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dodogoodgood1 wrote:
every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
Treated like hero's what?
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dodogoodgood1 wrote:
every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
Ban the entire country of Kenya. Problem solved. Then Ethiopia.
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dodogoodgood1 wrote:
every three to four weeks there is a new post linking Kenyan athletes/runners testing postive for drug use on letsrun message boards, instead of Consequences, they get more coverage and are treated like hero's, I don't get it. The price for using illegal drugs, is more money, more coverage, more invites, and more championships.
Ban the entire country of Kenya. Problem solved. Then Ethiopia.
*LMAOOOO
*note: Bolded & Italicized. I'm dying bro.. Thank u...14
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