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As soon as the webmeister comes back on line, Mr. Michael Lewis is banned from this board.
I have no problem with his message. I do have a MONSTER problem that in the middle of an interest-provoking thread on something of current interest in the track world he chose to insert a long, completely unrelated screed on drugs. Here's his post, just so neither he nor anybody else think I'm concerned with whatever point he's trying to make:
<< "Now we should write an explanation for every time we have to toss some trollism."
You sound like a kid who says "All you ever do is tell me to clean up my room!" No reasonable person expects you to have to justify all the trollism you expel and God knows there is some serious crap that makes it onto this board. But just what was the so-called trollism in this case? I'm curious because we've locked horns over this before and I had a post yanked on this thread. I have been told by you that saying Ruth Fuchs publicly admitted to using steroids was hearsay and basically bullshit. I don't know that my post got yanked this time and I won't assume it was until I know otherwise. However, since you're the editor of the Bible of the Sport, it might behoove you to at least know that your athlete of the decades for the 1970's HAS publicly admitted to steroid use. I contacted Dr. Werner Franke, the German Parliamentary investigator into East German secret police files detailing sports drug abuse. His reply was as follows:
Dear Mr. Lewis,
thank you for your e-mail inquiry about the specific case of Ruch
Fuchs (SC Motor Sport Club Jena, DDR). Perhaps you know that
she has been, after the reunification of Germany, a member of the
German Parliament (Bundestag) from approx. 1990-1998. She is
one of the few who have publicly admitted, to the press and also in
at least 1 television talk show, where I was also present, that she
had been taking the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol practically
throughout her major career, certainly during the time of the 3
participations in Olympic games. If you would need detailed
documents please let me know.
Sincerely
Werner W. Franke
I am forwarding a copy of his email to you Gary so hopefully there won't be any further dispute over this point of fact.>>
I have no problem with his message. I do have a MONSTER problem that in the middle of an interest-provoking thread on something of current interest in the track world he chose to insert a long, completely unrelated screed on drugs. Here's his post, just so neither he nor anybody else think I'm concerned with whatever point he's trying to make:
<< "Now we should write an explanation for every time we have to toss some trollism."
You sound like a kid who says "All you ever do is tell me to clean up my room!" No reasonable person expects you to have to justify all the trollism you expel and God knows there is some serious crap that makes it onto this board. But just what was the so-called trollism in this case? I'm curious because we've locked horns over this before and I had a post yanked on this thread. I have been told by you that saying Ruth Fuchs publicly admitted to using steroids was hearsay and basically bullshit. I don't know that my post got yanked this time and I won't assume it was until I know otherwise. However, since you're the editor of the Bible of the Sport, it might behoove you to at least know that your athlete of the decades for the 1970's HAS publicly admitted to steroid use. I contacted Dr. Werner Franke, the German Parliamentary investigator into East German secret police files detailing sports drug abuse. His reply was as follows:
Dear Mr. Lewis,
thank you for your e-mail inquiry about the specific case of Ruch
Fuchs (SC Motor Sport Club Jena, DDR). Perhaps you know that
she has been, after the reunification of Germany, a member of the
German Parliament (Bundestag) from approx. 1990-1998. She is
one of the few who have publicly admitted, to the press and also in
at least 1 television talk show, where I was also present, that she
had been taking the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol practically
throughout her major career, certainly during the time of the 3
participations in Olympic games. If you would need detailed
documents please let me know.
Sincerely
Werner W. Franke
I am forwarding a copy of his email to you Gary so hopefully there won't be any further dispute over this point of fact.>>
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