I must be jaded. Not only was I not surprised that Marion Jones finally admitted using performance enhancing drugs, I have minimal indignation about it. Usually I'm all sorts of indignant about this kind of thing. Is it weird that I just assume the majority of professional athletes take some form or another of performance enhancing drugs? Most athletes take some low level energy/dietary/hormone booster from a trainer, nutritionist or GNC like store. The truly bad offenders take steroids and its super powerful siblings to improve their performance. I realize there are honest athletes, but in endurance sports or events where we are breaking human speed records yearly it seems odd that just hard work lead to the freakish abilities of the participants.
The only thing that truly pisses me off is when an athlete lies repeatedly about their drug use, even when confronted with evidence of their drug use. Can you really tell me Bonds, Jones and others had no idea they were taking something stronger then flax seed oil? You sprouted muscle and had massive body changes...flax seed oil DOES NOT DO THAT! Kids look up to athletes, want to be them and live their life…and a lot of them are not honest about how they achieved their glory, money and fame. Just because everyone does it on some level doesn’t make it right, and it’s actually teaching kids to be dishonest and that there is a double standard on drug enforcement and athletes on drugs. It’s ok to do THESE drugs because they will make you run faster and hit balls farther, but stay away from crack, because crack kills.
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