Performance Enhancement is not necessarily Cheating

[Tshooter]

I personally think the whole drug business in the US is a racket. But I don't make the laws

Sharapova with her millions in her bank account should have been able to afford a legal alternative. No excuses for her, really.

It's a pretty good racket though. The "Pharma Bro" likes it.

Maybe BTC can come up with something for her before the Appeal.

"To: Mr. Haggety
c/o Fox Rothschild LLP
CC: Howard Jacobs

Re: Urgent Pova Info for Her Appeal

I'm been vehemently working on my online fake appeal for Pova.

Please do not forget to present the enclosed evidence to CAS (consisting primarily of wild conspiracy theories and an assortment of some of my favorite online rants) concerning the obvious scheme between the US State Department and WADA to set up your client.

Warm Regards,

Barti"

 

[Bartelby]

So, Tshooter, what's happening? Is Pova being shipped off to Gitmo? Or did Barry give her a Presidential pardon?

 

[Smasher08]

did Barry give her a Presidential pardon?

Apparently Slick Willy has been lobbying on her behalf

 

[Tshooter]

Mr. President to you, BTC.

Instead of the constant rehash, here is I think an interesting article by an ethicist.

Zero love for Pova but she's on your team as far as the list.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/03/shame-on-sharapova-time-to-rethink-the-banned-list/

 

[Smasher08]

"My interest in helping Maria is strictly professional."

 

[Bartelby]

Strangely enough for an article that starts off badly, it's essential point is anti-WADA and pro-Sharapova:

We should shorten, not lengthen, the WADA banned list. We should give up the principle that anything that enhances performance is against the spirit of sport and that the natural/artificial distinction has moral significance. We should ban substances or practices that are clearly or likely significantly unsafe and we should ban specific substances that corrupt the spirit of a particular sport.

If we applied that test, we might remove a majority of the substances from the WADA list.

Sport has become too bureaucratic as WADA is forced to constantly extend its lists and find new proxy ways to uncover cheating, such as whereabouts rules, where athletes can be banned for forgetting to file accurate paperwork. Sure, we need some rules to keep athletes reasonably healthy and to preserve what we love about sport. But that doesn’t require a Stasi-like approach to performance enhancement in sport. Let the athletes get on with and let’s get back to enjoying it, rather than placing every athlete under a cloud of suspicion.

So thanks for alerting me to an article that supports my position, but not yours ... as I've said often, you need to learn to read!

Mr. President to you, BTC.

Instead of the constant rehash, here is I think an interesting article by an ethicist.

Zero love for Pova but she's on your team as far as the list.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/03/shame-on-sharapova-time-to-rethink-the-banned-list/

 

[Tshooter]

You're quite welcome, BTC. I thought you'd like it.

Your comment though about the beginning was so predictable but still made me laugh.

I know your not impressed with my reading skills. I'm not fake litigating though and have no problem highlighting anything I think is interesting that you might think weakens "my position."



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[Bartelby]

You'd laugh at anything.

 

[Smasher08]

I'm not fake litigating though

 

[Slice'n'dice]

If you commit an illegal act it does not cease to be illegal just because some time has passed. Whether or not they can/want to build enough of a case to prosecute you (and before the statute of limitations expires) is a different story.

Also most drug offenses, specially for rich white folks, do not result in prison time.

PS: I don't know what kind of people you associate yourself with, but "half the population" having taken an illegal drug seems mighty high.

Drugs are different maybe because it is so widespread. It might not be half but it isn't going to be far away to have tried an illegal drug in the past. Most people come across them at one point or another at a party or whatever, and many of those try them. Many of our politicians and leaders have admitted taking a drug in the past no case ever gets put against them, in fact they get voted into government.

Certainly that is true, drug offences or otherwise. Just another symbol of what is wrong with society these days, but that's another issue.