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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can someone be "certain" he has doped, but he has NEVER failed a test?  I don't think there has ever, in  history, been an athlete under such a microscope. How could someone under such intense scrutiny pass every single test?

He has been consistent his entire career. No spikes, nothing-a steady achiever.[/quote]

I agree. This is BS to act as if we all "know." [/quote]

As a parent, this is one of those things I mourn from our youth. Professional athletes were achievers but in a world separate from mine. I could admire Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron for what they did on and off the field. Today, the money and media coverage are 100x higher and our "heroes" wilt under the pressure.

We knew and loved Tiger Woods and his story until we found that, despite a decade of 24x7 coverage, we didn't know anything.  There is not an athlete that I can point out to my son and say "that is a great person" because the next week it can all come crashing down. Lance Armstrong and Joe Paterno are two more that come to mind.

It's sad. [/quote]
You shouldn't point out anyone that you don't know personally to your son as a "great person".  Maybe a great athlete, performer, etc. but if you don't know them as a person, then you don't know if they are a great person.  Without the coverage that we have now, how do we really know if the athletes from our youth were great people?  Lance Armstrong is a great example of a cancer survivor, fund raiser, and bicycler.  The drug issue has followed him for over a decade.  I'm not surprised by this news at all.[/quote]

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