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USADA to ban Armstrong for life, strip Tour titles

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Hack Wilson - real:
i knew Lance didn't have the ball to fight this anymore

Shallow:
I get so mad every time something like this happens. Steroids were initially banned for health and safety reasons, not for reasons related to cheating (shit, remember the snowboarder who was stripped of a medal for smoking weed). In my opinion if you can take something that helps you compete at your best, with out causing you imminent physical danger, you should fucking take it. Anabolic steroids and human growth hormone are medically legal substances used by doctors on human beings. There are safe limits that every human can take if done so with a doctor over seeing the dosage. There is no fucking reason why an athlete should not be able to take advantage of that reality.

But because a bunch of fucking homos who could never amount to shit athletically in their lives ended up in congress it's turned into this black mark on sports everywhere. If you have a knee injury mid season and a doctor gives you a dose of cortizone after the operation and it helps you come back faster and play better right away is that not by definition a performance enhancing drug? Also, is it not safer for your knee and prolonged health to let the knee cure naturally over a longer period of time rather than be rushed back in.

Steve Yzerman years ago played for the Red Wings. He broke his foot in the Stanley Cup Finals, and to avoid missing the series he would numb it with drugs and play on a frozen foot. They won the series. It was not illegal or seen as cheating but with out it he would have had to sit and watch from the locker room. A drug that enhanced his performance.

"Oh but what about the people that don't want to take it?" Fuck them! That's their choice. Babe Ruth played pro ball with no physical training regimen and a diet of beer and hot dogs, and he was the best fucking guy in his era (and ever). Should we force athletes to be completely natural like the Babe was? No trainers, no advanced workout routines that help increase strength and endurance? That would be stupid right?


God bless Lance Armstrong, who did everything he could to win, and if there's a guy out there that didn't take any PEDs and could have beaten Lance every time if he did take them, then I have no more sympathy for him than I have for Jamarcus Russel. Because in my mind refusing to take steroids safely when you want to be the best in the world is not much better than refusing to train and letting yourself get fat, which by the way is what happens if you juice up without training as well.

If you can find a way to win and you don't do it you're an idiot. Even spygate; the idiot isn't the guy that tries to find out the other team's signals. The idiot is the guy that would rather not know them.

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