markg wrote:
Grim... wrote:
They should just be allowed to use drugs.
That would be just like saying that nobody should bother trying to patch games even if it means that most people get so fucked off with the cheats that they stop bothering to play it.
Except you can patch games, and really easily, to make a level playing field. Releasing a version update is somewhat easier than drug-testing every competitor. Anyway, if they're really precious about it they can go off and form their own non-drug cycling league and everyone will ignore it because they're not going at 130mph.
MaliA wrote:
EPO thickens the blood enough that the human heart cannot pump it around. Cyclists were having to get up in the night and exercise to raise their heart rates to not die. Confusing blood bags made riders very ill and many drugs are not tested properly. Then you get found dead in a pile of coke on Valentine's day, alone in a hotel. Even if you were to get around these, you'd then be in "who can afford the best drugs" territory rather than the "who can afford the best training stuff" territory.
Pretty sure it's tricky to cheat when you're dead
I'm not entirely serious, but I do often wonder what it would be like if sports-folk were given free rein on jacking themselves up. When F1 had more freedom back in the day, all sorts of cool upgrades filtered down to the everyday cars that people drove. If athletes tested all the crazy drugs for us and found one that meant we could all work 100% harder with no ill-effects then that would be pretty sweet.
She eats some sort of chocolate every night, so when she was moaning at me (I tend to like a couple of beers more when the weathers nice) I bought up the chocolate. So she said she would cut that out if I did the same with booze.
