posted Aug 24, 2007

A drug ban should mean being banned sine die from the Olympics.

Otherwise what is the point of the Olympic oath?

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posted Aug 24, 2007

Anyone found guilty of doping should be banned for life, together with the guilty party's coach and or trainer. This should hopefully discourage the coaches and trainers from encouraging performance enhancing and other suspect "medications". Interesting that Formula 1 drivers don't seem to have a problem with "doping".

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posted Aug 24, 2007

I feel that if an athlete is found to have cheated he or she should be banned for life

end of story

if we keep on banning them for a couple of years then no one will ever take a ban seriously
This must make athletes who are clean feel as tthough the sport is devaluing their efforts.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

The name of the game is competition. That's akin to captalism and quite a parallel. Because if you create a system that one needs to be "better" than the other, then you have created a "fight". People fight to win and so it goes. No one wants to lose a fight in a competition or lose money in capitalism. And I'm sorry but most people will do anything for a buck. I think if you are an Olympic athelete that if you eat anything but "food" that you are "doping". Too many vitamins is "doping", too much "gatorade" is "doping", legal or not. Most sports records in the last hundred years have been attained by doping on one level or the other. All drugs should be legal, available, taxed and regulated. All you folks that bitch about "enhancements", let's see if you'll miss that cup of coffee tomorrow morning. And I that y'all don't want dope fiends for star atheletes, but most professional atheletes are already cash fiends and imho, that addiction is harder to remedy and is easily denied.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

First time drug cheats should get a (career threatening) 4-year ban. Repeat offenders should get a lifetime ban. Coaches, medics and physios found to be providing performance enhancing drugs should be prosecuted for fraud, and banned from associating with any athletes in any discipline.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

LorenzoLaRue: what do you mean by "needs to be 'better'"? Sport is a system in which one competitor wants to be better than another - that reflects human nature. If someone, at a profound psychological level, genuinely "needs" to win, I suggest they've got something wrong with them.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

over 6 months, this means that anyone who misses 3 out of competition will never be able to take part in the Olympics, at least with Christine Ohurugu she has a chance (BOA sanctioned life ban), as Tim Don's ban was lifted.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

Why do we argue about bans? Why is there any other punishment than a lifetime ban? The people who increase their performance with drugs or blood doping must be made to understand that there is no return to 'sport' if they cheat. If they cheat, it is no longer sport. Which ever way you look at it sport is no longer worth watching or betting on.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

A cheat is a cheat...at school, in the university, on the job. Because of their high public profile and immense influence on young people, all and any sports person(including coaches and managers)should be dealt with accordingly. Remove them from that place of honour, and keep them out for life!!

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posted Aug 24, 2007

Absolutely right. Thank you.

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