Doping in Elite Sport - how drug testing fails

Anton Berlin

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Aug 1, 2010, 12:23:20 AM8/1/10

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http://books.google.com/books?id=wi2d4YyLh3wC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%22How+drug+testing+fails:+the+politics+of+doping+control%22&source=bl&ots=p9pSF8TP3Q&sig=RbUyhp7KqKE-grmMa1RyrlS2bwU&hl=en&ei=UPZUTMkKhL-eB5yQzKoD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22How%20drug%20testing%20fails%3A%20the%20politics%20of%20doping%20control%22&f=false

RicodJour

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Aug 1, 2010, 12:28:11 AM8/1/10

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On Aug 1, 12:23 am, Anton Berlin <truth_88...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=wi2d4YyLh3wC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%...

Okay, I read about 40* pages. What's your point?

R

* I lied. I got bored way before that, but still, what's your point?

Fredmaster of Brainerd

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Aug 1, 2010, 1:01:34 AM8/1/10

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On Jul 31, 9:23 pm, Anton Berlin <truth_88...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=wi2d4YyLh3wC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%...

I skimmed it.

What I saw is that the IOC is more interested in running
the Olympics for the IOC's benefit than in cleaning up dope,
and a lot of very unsupported speculation that pharmaceutical
companies contracted to run dope testing at Olympics in
the 90s suppressed positive results out of their own
financial interests since they manufacture drugs that
are used in doping (there was no evidence provided for
the assertions, or a calculation of how important the
illicit hormone market would be compared to their
over-the-table business, I suspect it is actually not
financially important to the pharma companies).

It ends with a statement that WADA was founded because
the IOC couldn't keep its own house clean. And hey, we know
how that has turned out - now that WADA exists, there isn't any
more doping.

So basically, I learned nothing I didn't already know.
Sorry.

Fredmaster Ben

Revtom

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Aug 1, 2010, 10:03:58 AM8/1/10

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Pretty much says it all. The IOC and all of it's subgroups are
primarily concerned with making their executives rich, and in doing
so, exert control over their respective sports strictly, but
capriciously. Trot out a few positives, slap them around publicly, and
suddenly it appears the situation is in hand. The problem, just as in
elementary schools, is that zero tolerance is a total failure. Two
year bans for using an OTC decongestant? Expulsion for bringing a
dinner knife from home? The fans, team owners, and sponsors want big,
throbbing, sweaty results. That's where the money is. Whoever gets
sacrificed in that pursuit ... well, there's a long line of warm
bodies looking to get in on it.

Anton Berlin

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Aug 1, 2010, 10:24:55 AM8/1/10

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Same with the UCI really. They get a cut of the sponsorship money
coming into the sport so a short cited policy (like let Lance's
cortisone positve (and later EPO) slide) was probably some deal cooked
up in the corridors of the UCI.

"If this cancer guy wins there will be oodles of good press for the
sport Jaques"

"Oui oui mon frere... and oodles and oodles of money for us"

RicodJour

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Aug 1, 2010, 11:01:13 AM8/1/10

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job
depends on not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

Kind of like LaphInfection's 'job' going after LANCE, eh?

R

Kurgan Gringioni

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Aug 2, 2010, 3:06:31 AM8/2/10

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"Anton Berlin" <truth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2a6ae446-dacf-45d8...@p22g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
: Same with the UCI really. They get a cut of the sponsorship money

: coming into the sport so a short cited policy (like let Lance's
: cortisone positve (and later EPO) slide) was probably some deal cooked
: up in the corridors of the UCI.

Dumbass -

What do you expect?

It's not a monastary, it's a business.

thanks,

Kurgan. presented by Gringioni.