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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doping is such a difficult topic to make judgements about. First of all people make the mistake of thinking sports are actually important. Beyond personal health and learning teamwork skills sports are not important at all. Contemporary sports have become "the opiate of the masses".  For some people their favorite teams and players have become their alter egos.   Come on people . . . it's just sports!?!?
 
Wow .... Talk about first world problems!?!?

Do you have any idea how shitty life is for the majority of the human beings who live on this planet and we're obsessing about some guy in spandex took drugs to help him win a bicycle race through the French countryside. Whew ... Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid.

Geez ... don't people know that NCAA and Profession sports are only about money and the players/owners who win make the most money. Has ESPN become such a mind altering drug that people believe that our contemporary  Sports Machine is anything more than a cash machine???

Of course he juiced just like Clemmens, Bonds, and hundreds of other athletes from high schools to the Gold Metal Stand at the Olympic Games. To me it's no big deal. I paid my admission price and I enjoyed the games. But for me, they have never been anything more than games and for the price I paid, I never expected anything more than to enjoy the moment.

Life must be good for us Americans if we can be so bored that we feel the need to so passionately assess the virtues of good and evil to mere mortals who ride bicycles really really fast. [/quote]

Honestly, this does give me perspective. I also didn't care much when it came out about the doping...until I found out that he sued all these people for telling the truth...I know, I know - I should have known that but until this week, I truly never paid much attention to Lance Armstrong. So, what bothers me is not the doping, but that people got hurt so that he could hold on to a lie. [/quote]

just because you say sports are not important does not mean they are not important.  are wars important?  is big business important?  is competition important?

professional sports are a big deal, a huge business.  they are important culturally and financially.  amateur sports are great for kids (usually).

you seem out of touch.  As for the opiate for the masses, would you rather young men get the tribal instinct out of their system through watching Italy play Argentina, or would you rather Mussolini invade Ethiopia again?[/quote]

Yup, this one drank the kool-aid alright. [/quote]

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