The News Review:
- War on drugs claims one of its biggest scalps in Gatlin
- Your e-mails: The future of sports and fitness
- King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
- US sports could benefit from WADA system
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War on drugs claims one of its biggest scalps in Gatlin
Times nline – Jul 31, 2006
Now he has failed a dope test and his entire life’s work is in question. The news broke a couple of days after Floyd Landis the winner of the Tour de France also failed a drugs test. These two immensely high-profile busts seem to offer sport a stark choice. Do we give up on the drug-addled sports? r do we give up on drug-testing? There doesn’t seem to be a third option. It is 18 years since Johnson tested positive after winning the 100 metres at the lympic Games in Seoul. After that landmark event what has happened to athletics? And what has happened to all sports that reward the drug-taker? ptimists felt that the Johnson bust would shock sport and athletes into honesty: if Johnson gets caught then surely anybody who even sniffs at a steroid is vulnerable. But instead one positive test has followed another; one champion after another has been found guilty… Do we give up on the drug-addled sports? r do we give up on drug-testing? There doesn’t seem to be a third option. It is 18 years since Johnson tested positive after winning the 100 metres at the lympic Games in Seoul. After that landmark event what has happened to athletics? And what has happened to all sports that reward the drug-taker? ptimists felt that the Johnson bust would shock sport and athletes into honesty: if Johnson gets caught then surely anybody who even sniffs at a steroid is vulnerable. But instead one positive test has followed another; one champion after another has been found guilty. Much of sport has become an arms race between testers and testees. With every positive test you wonder how many more got away with something. Athletics swimming weightlifting cycling: the vulnerable sports are becoming untenable.
Your e-mails: The future of sports and fitness
CNN – Jul 31, 2006
Here is a sampling of your e-mailed predictions some of which have been edited. (Read more about CNN’s special report exploring the realities of the future)Too many times have we seen a game’s result change over one bonehead call by the referee. So how will sports change you ask? Simply [by getting] rid of the human error that comes along with the officiating. Cameras have helped us catch everything that happens on the pitch.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
salon.com – Jul 31, 2006
So the system’s working right?Jul. 31 2006 | What a shock! The New York Yankees have made the biggest deal at the trading deadline snagging the expensive All-Star who could have helped any number of contending teams. The biggest deal so far that is. With about four hours to go until the 4 p.
US sports could benefit from WADA system
ESPN – Jul 31, 2006
sports could benefit from WADA systemBy Mark KreidlerSpecial to ESPN. Barry Bonds hits one of his four home runs for the San Francisco Giants in the 2002 World Series against Anaheim K? It’s a bomb way out to right field just a complete explosion. Bonds rounds the bases and takes his bow.
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Press-Enterprise – Jul 31, 2006
10:00 PM PDT on Monday July 31 2006By JEFF EISENBERGThe Press-EnterrpriseAn analysis of Floyd Landis' initial urine sample showed the Tour de France champion's testosterone level was nearly three times the permissible threshold his doctor said Monday. Although anti-doping experts said the numbers were far too high to be achieved naturally Dr. Brent Kay vehemently disagreed. Kay reiterated that the Murrieta resident's naturally high testosterone levels could have led to the abnormal result or it could be a false positive caused by human error at the French laboratory that conducted the test.
