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Originally Posted by Damien
Hang on we don't even have any evidence of these doping programs and we're already talking about cleaning it up?
Football is not cycling. There is a lot more attention on it and serious consequences for clubs who are shown not to have done something about it.
Good article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...ret-footballer
There will be of course isolated incidents of players doping but they can be caught easily, and it's not systematic. That's all you can really ask for. Effective testing and policing. |
damien that article awful for endorsement that football clean. Infact player says he been only ever tested twice. If 16 tests could not catch amstrong or others in cycling cheating. How many has been missed by the laughable testing in football.
Again your article only talks about recreational and trying to use the excuse some been caught with these that football clean from PED's.
He bemoans that it would be difficult after 90 mins game to pee in bottle. Sorry that not excuse why we should not test after games. Other sports after endurance have athletes do urine and even blood samples.
Would also think footballers should have biological passport. So things can be referenced that would then mean at least every player tested once to make sure passport is pure.
Cycling has made huge inroads since their introduction. Fact cycling caught more due to the testing not perfect but they used to have same excuse costs, hard to catch our riders cleanest sport living.
Also breaking news in USA its now in baseball and american football.
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...inic-ped-lists
If we want fair and level playing field then its natural to test. As the argument its very popular etc in public domian so its clean. American football/baseball is big and cycling popular worldwide sports.
The money in the game is enough to be worried that some not all may take illegal methods to win at all costs mentality.
I love football damien I would love to say its clean but quite honestly I would be shocked if it is.