Dopers Cheaters and a bag full of Dopes

Some times the ability of the athletic world to allow their young to be eaten by the ravenous and gluttonous media mavens astounds me.  Just a few months ago Track racing lost one of the most ardent supporters and crazy personalities Mark Whitehead, I don’t know the guy from Adam however only 3 paragraphs into the Obituary article, the author notes that he had taken part in Blood transfusions during his Olympic days a technique that was NOT Illegal at the time and widely used.  In the article like all sneaky journalists that have never brought a bike over the speed of 15 mph or trained past the Jan 31^st resolution burn out this writer nefariously hints that his death could have been caused by his use of transfusions, WTF?

The world could have been created in 6 days too!

Then the whole LA thing just twists me like a dish rag, the whole lot of conspiracy stories around this guy makes the UFO crash at Roswell NM look like child’s play!  In a recent article this month the writer made statements like, organization 1 is perceived to give to organization 2 then a few sentences later knowing full well a negative opinion had been formed goes on to say however no where in their web site or literature does it say that they do or would give to organization 2, that is incredulous! Na Na a Bo Bo! When you go to the local bike blogs/forums there is more trash talking by know nothings that one could ever imagine, to these guys there is a doper under every lycra clad speedster.

The Aliens at Roswell bought us Velcro!

Then there is Marc McGuire which is a story that makes me sorta chuckle at the total misuse of Taxpayer money ever perpetrated sans for the past 4 years.  The guy took a supplement that at the time you could buy at any health food store and was NOT a banned substance at the time ohhhhh did he pay on the alter of media driven self righteousness.

Alters are for sacrifice.

Even great athletes like Phelps gets his ass dragged through hell over a public picture showing his lips around a bong, looses sponsors, credibility all the while the stench of reefer permeates out of the back room boiler room where trash journalism is created.

“I tried it but I didn’t inhale” used to come from the media darling that once occupied the White House!

Even for the media created poster boy of righteousness and good, Tiger Woods, Sans his deplorable personal life The initial reporting on his off course conduct has a paragraph about his assumed use of HgH and platelet therapy thrown into the story of his fall from grace, I guess the theory in media is that if you pour gasoline on a burning man the flame will burn brighter.

The story that really jacked me up this week was written by a reporter that claimed to be at the Tour Down Under in AU.  He writes that while in the lobby he notices a rider fresh off suspension (he served his time) and shoots him the look like I know who the F%^k you are buddy Then in a self righteous way pens a story bashing this man who served his time for his crimes, reapplied for a licensed solicited a team to hire him and I am sure goes through a higher scrutiny by the anti doping controls than any other guy there that week.  Throw in the fact that he did some winning and you would swear this guy was Satan reincarnated.  The writers reasoning was that the rider was not humble enough in his penance during his suspension.   Oh for the love of GOD man!

Judge not, least yea be judged.

Don’t get me wrong here I think personally that if there are a set of rules then those that play the game should live by those rules and if you don’t then you should be prosecuted under the full extent of the rules of the governing body in which you violated said rules.  You break the rules, they prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, hey you are GUILTY!

However I also believe every man regardless of his stature in life should be allowed the due process of the law and in fact should be treated as an innocent until proven guilty.  That is to include the reporting done by the ravenous media hoping to fill up subscriptions as well as 24/7 time slots.

The Governing Bodies should also work to eradicate dirty supplements that perpetrate the market and could cause problems in testing, and a reasonableness exist in the testing protocols to clearly define the difference between what may have been an ingestion of a dirty product food or food substance and what is performance enhancing.  This reasonableness would be in stark difference to the statement that “The Athlete is responsible for everything they put into their bodies”   

“What the world needs most are men of Reasonableness.”