Thursday, July 27, 2006

Pride

This won't be long. American Floyd Landis won the Tour De France Cycling race last week, in what was being called one of the greatest achievements ever. He made up slightly over 8 minutes on the competition in Stage 17, something at the level these men compete is akin to making up a 4 touchdown deficit in the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl. He went on to win the entire event.

Today it was announced his urinalysis after stage 17 had an extremely high level of testosterone, indicating Mr. Landis was probably taking a performance enhancing drug or blood doping of some sort. As of this writing, everything is in limbo.

Ok. I said it would be short, and here it is. If you're going to compete, compete like there is no tomorrow. If you win, that's great. If you lose, you lose.

But you must do so with dignity, either way.

Nuff said.

1 comment:

Darius said...

This continual doping stuff really does detract from sports. "Breaking a record" has become so much less meaningful because now there really needs to be all these footnotes: "doping established," and "doping suspected..."