Floyd Landis is at it again! Talking absolute crap!This week he suggested that drugs should be legalised in cycling - what an idiot! Essentially he says legalising doping is the only way forward in cycling because testers will always struggle to uncover the drugs cheats. He believes the fight against doping can't be won.
He said:
"You've got to legalise doping. They (the testers) are so far behind in the testing organisations that there's no way to change it now," Landis told Cyclingnews website on Wednesday.
"Just accept that it's here, that it's not going away and that it's just going to get more complicated and the fact that it's not that complicated yet compared to what it will be," he said.
"Ten years from now it's going to be four times as hard as it is now to test for things."
"Since you can't stop it you have to deal with it in rational kind of way," he said.
"You can't stop it and you cant fix it. Monitor it and make sure people don't hurt themselves, but you have to accept it."
I can't believe I'm spending my precious time giving this guy the time of day, but I thought I'd post it up in case you guys hadn't seen it. IDIOT!
5 comments:
Whilst I would be the first to stand up for 'natural' everything in line with my Primal beliefs there is a school of thought that would support this move, at least you'd know you were watching drug-enhanced athletes rather than just suspecting it.
It's all a matter of degree. Look how much legitimate manipulation is going on in training ... using oxygen tents, altitude camps, various potions and lotions. Some of the formulas that everyone is using aren't that many chemical bonds away from the illicit stuff.
The ideal of the Olympics originally was untrained people competing as training was considered 'unsporting'!
Consider can of worms open!
I agree with your comment about altitude tents, etc, but there is no argument that would make me agree with legalised doping (I know that's not what you said).
Where would it stop? Would be ok to use steroids but not HGH? Perhaps have a separate Olympics for druggies?
I watched a clip of Marion Jones the other day, when she was on the steps of the courtyard before (or maybe after) she was convicted, in tears, absolutely in tatters, saying how she had lied, betrayed everyone's trust and let everyone down. This is after years of angry denials when questioned about drug use. No sympathy at all from me. She cheated. She got caught. End of story. Can you imagine her trying to explain this to her children?
May be a separate drug allowable event is the way to go. Actually they already have that it's called bodybuilding isn't?
And actually, in a free world, perhaps we should allow people to dope if that's what they choose - it's their health they are playing with. If you look at the stats for elite marathoners and early deaths (in fact in many elite sports) they are killing themselves anyway with their training and nutrition regimes (regardless of whether there are additional illicit substances going on), the line could be seen as somewhat arbitrary.
If it's all legal there is no cheating so Marion et al wouldn't have anything to explain other than a potentially shortened life I guess?
I'm in favour of honest, clean sport but I can see certainly see the arguments for legalising.
Would you want to see someone run the 100m in 7.5 seconds? Or maybe less? Of course you would! It would be awesome. But pointless, as all it would prove was who had the best pharmacist and/or physician. Absolute rubbish. I want to watch humans perform to the best of their ability with no more help than a good coach (or coaches), hard work and determination. And maybe a good gene pool. Which is why Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton should have lots of children together; in 20 years time there will be no cyclist or cycle team that could touch the Brits! :-)
Tha man is a dick of the highest order.
There are so many reasons against but the most glaring performance one for doping advocates that won't take in the health and advertising/PR and believe it would level the playing field is this...
Not everyone reacts to the drugs to the same degree. Someone average in the elite ranks could be elavated to god like status on eg EPO or extra testosterone, while a clean World Champ improves a little but goes back in to the pack and hence is effectively disadvantaged by legalised doping.
Who wants to live in a world where the world champ isn't actually that good but is the best responder to the new gene therapy drug protocol.
Say no to drugs kids.
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