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Are there other sprinters than Johnson around that look jaundiced?Fahey admitted that his own view had grown more jaundiced since the
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His premise sounds like it makes sense, but w/ the Gay-Powell-Bolt drama, I'm not sure the are many times when the interest has been higher!Comment
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Canadian columnist says Fahey doesn't have Dick Pound's fire:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news ... a837cf2f35
Great line:
<<.... Instead, we got his successor John Fahey, believed to be the only unquotable Aussie male on the planet....>>Comment
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That's the irony of the situation really. The damage the drugs scandals cause are completely dependent on how healthy the sport is in the first place.Originally posted by gh
If it was just one guy dominating, public interest in the 100 would have been far more damaged by all the drug revelations. With the 3 fastest guys in history duking it out, people can't help but care about the result.Comment
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On another thread, gh rote:Originally posted by gh
http://mb.trackandfieldnews.com/discuss ... hp?t=32241Originally posted by gh
In fairness to gh, which phonetically can rhyme with "ff", the discussion may have been perceived as having veered toward a more myopic, USA-centric view of things, on that other thread.
If there is such a thing as karma, Carl Lewis may come back as Ben Johnson's student in a "future" life....Comment
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In general he's right, and it's not just US either. Substitute other sports and you could say the same for just about every other nation on earth.
But there's a major difference between generally public interest in track for 206 weeks out of every 208 and what we're talking about here, the Olympic 100m ...Comment
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http://www.johann-sandra.com/popular.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sp ... ce_figures
Here's a gem:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_popular_i ... adyAsked=1
I won't bother asking anyone how to find out how popular track and field is, since my efforts at digging up "interesting things" seem to be worse than unappreciated around here. Figures - you have someone who tries hard to make things a bit less drab and routine for people, then the mods send some little shithead to tell him to shut the fuck up.
Pardon my French, Monsieurs Hall eh Hill.Comment
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?????Originally posted by NovitiateComment
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Let them speak for themselves. I'm sick and tired of the hypocrisy that goes on around this very little place. I smelled a rat, named cacique....
I won't wait to apologize for my language today. Ping me when you get in Ben - wait, that'd be too late!
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"He says the importance of catching drug cheats has never been greater.
"We must. If we do not, part of the world as we've known it for all of our lives is going to leave us," he said.
"The public will desert any sport in time if they're not satisfied it has integrity in the way it which it operates."
I read this and got a good laugh. I think The Times' Simon Barnes is the one with the correct view on this. (See home page)Comment
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Somebody get up on the wrong side of the bed today?Originally posted by NovitiateComment
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Among track fans you may be correct but maybe he is referring, to the Joe Blo sports fan, and, as was shown on T&FN website today, the popularity of T&F is now below swimming. Sprinting has been one of the bigger marketing items in T&F and damage to that damages the whole sport more than say walkers.Originally posted by ghComment
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Correct view? That is a sad statement. I think that view reflects the degredation of society. Cheating is no longer viewed by many as amoral but rather just part of life we should live with and embrace.Originally posted by Conor Dary
The Olympics and sport in general was intended to be based on fair play.
Drug testing is not ruining the sport, the cheaters are and those that come to tolerate them. If it turns out that people will not participate without cheating, then the sport has no business being a sport.Comment
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Unfortunately this is exactly right.Originally posted by odelltrclan
My experiences corrolate well with the above. More often the students caught cheating would have been A students.A Duke University study shows that 75 percent of students admit to cheating. 90 percent of student admit to copying someone’s paper.
Denise Pope, adjunct professor in the School of Education at Stanford University says, "Nationally, 75 percent of all high school students cheat. But the ones who cheat more are the ones who have the most to lose, which is the honors and AP (advanced placement) students. Eighty percent of honors and AP students cheat on a regular basis." [Regan McMahan, San Francisco Gate.com, sfgate.com, September 9, 2007] Therefore, the better the student--the more likely they are cheating.
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