Suspend The Sport For A Year?

This was suggest here and by at least one top person (who??) in the sport
back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth considering if the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips with
the problem and try to find a solution.

B. Lafferty wrote:
This was suggest here and by at least one top person (who??) in the sport
back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth considering if the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips with
the problem and try to find a solution.



6 years later, the solution is still ridiculous.

"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips with
the problem and try to find a solution.

I have another idea, Brian. Why don't you suspend beginning new threads for
a year? See what it does to the complexion of rbr.

(the original) Thanks very much,

Jim Flom

"Jim Flom" wrote in message
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"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips
with
the problem and try to find a solution.

I have another idea, Brian. Why don't you suspend beginning new threads
for
a year? See what it does to the complexion of rbr.

(the original) Thanks very much,

Jim Flom

Pastor Jim,

Why don't you take a stroll over to your church for some prayer and
reflection?

Brother Brian

That would certainly put the last nail in the coffin of the sport.


"B. Lafferty" wrote in message
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This was suggest here and by at least one top person (who??) in the sport
back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth considering if
the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips with
the problem and try to find a solution.

"B. Lafferty" wrote in message ink.net...
This was suggest here and by at least one top person (who??) in the sport
back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth considering if the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips with
the problem and try to find a solution.

I suggest that they give a life time ban to anyone caught using
performance enhancing drugs. If you have people who are going to try
and cheat, give them what they deserve if they get caught.

"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

nothing much worth quoting

You know, Bri, your response plays like a cheap shot. I musta struck a
nerve. Why don't you meditate upon my suggestion, eh?

Jim Flom

"iocat" wrote in message
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"B. Lafferty" wrote in message
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This was suggest here and by at least one top person (who??) in the
sport
back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth considering if
the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply allow all
doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone come to grips
with
the problem and try to find a solution.

I suggest that they give a life time ban to anyone caught using
performance enhancing drugs. If you have people who are going to try
and cheat, give them what they deserve if they get caught.

The idea of closing the sport down for a year was suggested after Festina by
one of the Italian sponsors or managers, IIRC. The only plus I see to it
would be to let the folks in the sport see what life could be like if they
totally destroy it. At least that was the rational put forward back in
1998.

I agree that lifetime bans for the first or second offense would help and
that's what WADA is trying to impliment. Beyond that, a suspension for team
management implicated in doping would also help. This is a point that
Manzano made several times in his published interviews. It's management
that puts pressure on to perform beyond what is reasonable and/or healthy.
It seems that the health issue is starting to reverberate a bit through the
riders. ProCycling has an article today quoting another Spanish rider
supporting what Manzano had said.
See http://www.procycling.com/news_main.asp?newsId=5080

"Jim Flom" wrote in message
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"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

nothing much worth quoting

You know, Bri, your response plays like a cheap shot. I musta struck a
nerve. Why don't you meditate upon my suggestion, eh?

Jim Flom

Kind of Old Testament, eh? Not exactly a Christ-Buddha dialogue. Oh
well.......

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:56:51 GMT, "B. Lafferty"
wrote:

Beyond that, a suspension for team
management implicated in doping would also help.

If management was the instigator of the doping, every individual in
management should be banned from organized cycling for life. This
would still let them participate in certain parts of the USCF, of
course.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...