Topic: News: Anti-Drug Czar Dick Pound Comments on Doping Battle

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

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How Bad Is It?
By Paul Friesen

 The skinny on doping in the Olympic sports:

- Drug policy contains far more punitive measures than pro sports: two-year ban for first offence, lifetime ban for second.

- Despite the penalties, the headlines keep coming. One of the latest: nine Iranian weightlifters, from a team of 11, failed tests, forcing the entire team to withdraw from the world championship.

- Also caught doping in the last several weeks: three track and field athletes from Hungary, an 18-year-old female gymnast from Belarus, a German triathlete, a Bulgarian weightlifter and a shot putter from Finland.

- On the eve of the '06 Tour de France, nine cyclists withdrew after news of a doping probe broke in Spain.

- Tour winner Floyd Landis of the U.S. flunked a test taken after the second-last stage of the race.

- American Justin Gatlin, the world's fastest man, announced on July 29 he had tested positive at a meet earlier in the year.

- Anti-drug czar Dick Pound: "Cycling has had a very bad year. Track and field has had a very bad year. Weightlifting has been out of control for years."

[Jake Harrison]

i didnt read the link but from what i see in the comments in the post is what shouldve happened long ago becasue doping has been around for decades and in the past 30 its been out of control and the only reason more people didnt test positive was becasue nobody wanted to see that happen to the "best" athletes. but now everybody suddently wants everyone clean and all this crap about it so the agencies with a ton of pressure on them had to stop it and see when they wanted to they did catch a lot of athletes. but trust me on this the very very top athletes, at least MOST of them with the exeption of a few are not going to get caught because the agencies and the olympics and the leagues wont let that happen, of course theyll make the expeption of a few to save face and be like ya see we did catch some of the best.