From glory to nothingness...

[79.]

Just a word to realize it is very pathetic to
see that a Dwain CHAMBERS who was, less than
one year ago, a clear favourite for the 100m
Gold in Athens is nothing anymore today in the
T&F arenas...
Who will remind of him within a few years?
Do you also remember his fellow countryman
Jason "Baby Ben" LIVINGSTON, who was a young
sprinting prodigy (10"08) in the late eighties?
His promising career had been suddenly broken
by a positive drug test...

[Asterix]

Re: From glory to nothingness...

Moral of the story kids: just say no to drugs.

[decafan]

Re: From glory to nothingness...

His promising career had been suddenly broken
by a positive drug test...

Promising career cut short by a positive drug test? Huh?
Look, you can't take something from these dirt-bags that they ever deserved in the 1st place. Whatever glory they experienced was stolen.
That's like saying, "I could have been a female Olympic gold medalist if it wasn't for that darn gender test."

[Bob Duncan]

Re: From glory to nothingness...

And I was cleaning out a stack of old (but not too old) Track and Field News magazines yesterday and found Regina Jacobs gracing not one but two covers. And now...