Lance Armstrong - Hero or Zero?

[BolshieBastard]

There's been several cases of athletes admitting to the use of PED's even though they never failed a doping test. Marion jones being one of the most high profile.

I think its different someone admitting they used drugs to a doping body saying we find someone guilty of doping but we dont have any proof.

[NotAllThere]

Zero. But only because he's American.

BBC magazine suggests that doping should be permitted, but if testing shows levels of some hormones etc. are above certain levels, then the athlete is suspended for their own health.

[Mich the Tester]

Zero. But only because he's American.

BBC magazine suggests that doping should be permitted, but if testing shows levels of some hormones etc. are above certain levels, then the athlete is suspended for their own health.

Silly suggestion to allow doping; that would open up a new can of worms. However, there needs to be some accceptance that some top athletes are basically freaks of nature, and something about them makes them completely dominant; it's not just training and discipline, but a superior ability to react to training (supercompensate) and often some wierd physical 'difference' that puts them ahead of others.