01-17-2023, 04:21 PM
(01-17-2023, 03:55 PM)Kammrath Wrote: It is what I fully expect.
That is never going to happen. Every sport has a massive doping problem, and they are all hiding it. Baseball, cycling and cross-country skiiing tried to clean up their act once and they got all vilified for it rather than commended. There are no benefits to American Football, Football, Basketball, Tennis, Track&Field being proactive about this. They just control the press and the narrative.
Simona Halep, one of the biggest names in tennis is missing the Australian Open due to a doping ban and the AP wrote: she misses it due to ineligibility. LMAO.
For every Ben Johnson or Maria Sharapova, there is a Carl Lewis or Serena Williams. Manny Pacquiao moving from 108 to 154 pounds without losing any speed or power, and half the growth being his head like Barry Bonds. Floyd Mayweather and the doping creme for his brittle hands. Some names are too big too fail, so their bans/offences gets swept under the rug. LeBron James is definitely in that too big too fail category.
Just like when the Spanish government burned all the documents of Doctor Fuentes and basically didn´t allow him to testify, cause he´d likely have thrown the whole Spanish World Cup winning national football team, Barcelona and Messi, Real Madrid and Ronaldo, and Rafa Nadal under the bus.
So the trial went something like:
Tell us about all the foreign cyclists that cheated.
Yes your honour. You also want to hear about the others.
Okay okay if you have to tell us. Who were the Spanish cyclists.
Yes your honour. So should I name the other sports now.
Wow wow wow. Slow your roll. We are good here. You may leave now.
but...
STFU.
Lance Armstrong´s downfall was that he was a gigantic asshole of truly epic proportions, who had to rub his cheating and getting away with it in the face of all the caught European dopers, he beat by twenty minutes. Even rubbed it in the face of former team mates that got caught later. If he was gracious about his accomplishments, he´d still live his life as the seven time TdF winner, cancer survivor, that just with his natural ability was able to overcome hundreds of doped riders and do it easily. LOL.
End of rant.