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- From: don@island.COM (Don Hermes)
- Subject: Re: Cycling and Doping
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.220957.7631@island.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:09:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.231310.22978@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> les@cs.stanford.edu writes:
- >This "root of the problem" that jim wishes to attack is simply human
- >nature, so I do not recommend attacking it. In fact, I favor
- >accomodating it by offering, in addition to competition under medical
- >control regulations, unrestricted competition in which athletes can do
- >anything to their bodies they wish.
- >
- >Unfortunately, in the current US political climate of the "War on
- >Drugs," my proposals along these lines to the USCF Board of Directors
- >have elicited only laughter or shocked denunciations. I give them
- >about 10 years to figure out that I was right.
-
- No.
- Offering competition unrestricted from drug use, after having controlled
- it before, leaves the USCF open to bearing some of the responsobility
- for the after effects of the use.
- By responsibility, I mean legal action. Huge, messy, class action suits.
- By offering a special class of "free" competition you would be seen simply
- as encouraging athletes to use drugs.
-
- And what about those athletes at the top of the non drug use class ?
- How would they be compared to the ones who did whatever it would take,
- short of working harder ?
-
- Don
- don@island.com
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- it takes
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