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Soccer/Football

oldironside

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2. "Everybody was doing it" is no excuse.

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 7, 2013, 12:23 AM

Aug 2013

Cheating is cheating, and if you enable the cheats by saying " Well, okay but you know you really shouldn't." you remve any real reason for playing sport and you give the green light to the next generation of cheats.

At the risk of sounding Corinthian, sport should be about developing the worthwhile human attributes - confidence, skill, fitness, character. It is not about who has the best chemist and it is not about winning at all costs.

Lance Armstrong lst his titles because he cheated, and several tours now have no official winner because they can't be sure anyone was clean. Olympic records of the 70s and 80s are now totally wothless because of institutionalised cheating. If these allegations are proven FIFA should (but probably won't) take action.

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German politicians call for publication of report into cold war doping [View all] oldironside Aug 2013 OP

Well, it wasn't just the Germans in those days I'm sure Ron Obvious Aug 2013 #1

"Everybody was doing it" is no excuse. oldironside Aug 2013 #2

I'm not making excuses Ron Obvious Aug 2013 #3

Apologies if it came over like that. oldironside Aug 2013 #4

I sure hope Aquavit Aug 2013 #5