What the hell is going on with all this steroid use?

[CatWoman]

Marion Jones is the latest athlete to go down.

[GOPisEvil]

1. M-O-N-E-Y

If you win, you earn a lot of it. That's an awful temptation for some.

[CatWoman]

4. Hi David!! Long time no see

:hi:

however, what happened to HONOR!!!???!!!

It appears that greed trumps everything.

[TomInTib]

2. Money. Fame. Ego. Simple

I had 15 year old kids doing steroids on a National Select (Baseball) Team that I coached.

And that was twelve years ago.

[NC_Nurse]

3. Man, that was SO sad!

Made me cry...:-(

[ulysses]

5. echoes of BALCO continue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BALCO

:hi:

[CatWoman]

8. Uly!!!

:hi:

:loveya:

I hear that Chris has Mr. K "spooked" :rofl:

don't forget to check my thread in the Georgia forum :)

[ulysses]

10. the cat's been spooked since Chris learned to crawl.

"No, cat! Go 'way!" hasn't done anything for the feline mood either. :D

So, we're talking about the 21st?

[CatWoman]

15. looks like it

will be great to see you guys again :)

[ulysses]

22. likewise!

:)

[MannyGoldstein]

6. They Work Really, Really Well

Friend of mine was a little guy. Started doing 'roids and lifting, became HUGE. Really, really HUGE. (Also started slapping around his girlfriend...)

[Horse with no Name]

7. Yeah she went down

But she managed to grab her integrity on the way down.
But you can bet she won't be scootered. Only rich white republicans get to lie to the feds and get away with it. She'll get jail time.

[panader0]

9. Her apology was the best I've ever seen.

On the steroid question, I don't care what atheletes take. Many things could be called "performance enhancing". How about a protein drink? Gatorade? Even Barry Bonds, if he did take steroids, They were not illegal at the time he took them. Does it matter? Soon coffee will be an illegal stimulent, then chocolate, then........

[tridim]

14. My favorite banned "performance enhancing" drug..

Pot for Olympic snowboarders. :rofl:

[Kingshakabobo]

16. Oh come on. Steroids are dangerous to the athletes.

It's called CHEATING when you take banned substances to gain an advantage over the other athlete who happens to care about their own health.

[flyarm]

11. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ eom

[pitohui]

12. it's a performance enhancing drug that actually enhances performance

therefore since as americans and humans we hate and are embittered about a successful technology, we have to punish people who have to guts to modify their bodies to be successful

that's it in a nutshell

a true athlete will do with her body what she must to win

bitter people on the sidelines will grumble because they aren't willing to

[Debi]

13. Yeah, but she lived a hell of a life while she lied about using them

x(

Earning (and spending) over $20 Million in winnings and endorsement deals (and five Olympic medals). Her cheating - cheated the people who played by the rules out of what they could have won and could have earned. I don't have any sympathy for her. She cheated and lied and kept on telling lies until the money and fame ran out.

[Buzz Clik]

17. Remember when Ben Johnson was busted for steroids in Olympic 100 m?

Gold-medal marathoner Frank Shorter was talking about steroids and said that steroid use was rampant.

At the same Olympic games, they polled dozens of athletes and asked them if they would take performance enhancing drugs if it would guarantee them a medal but it would also have dire health consequences. It was nearly a unanimous "Yes!" answer. I was pretty shocked.

So, it's the money, but mostly it the satisfaction of succeeding.

[qdemn7]

18. It's all about "winning"

I read something several years ago. They surveyed athletes:

"If you could take a drug that would make you a world champion, but kill you in 5 years, would you take it?"

A majority of them said yes. Sad.... truly sad. :cry:

[Az]

19. Corporations have an interest in sports

There for many floods the system and ethics depart. It's pretty simple really.

[onehandle]

20. I like to be pumped up. So sue me.

It's still the 1980s somewhere.

[MissDeeds]

21. The bigger question is

why was it the lead story on all three network newscasts? It's newsworthy and should have been reported, but the lead freaking story? Damn!
OK, carry on.

[spirit of wine]

23. Steroids use is a diversion for political news cover ups

Somewhere there is an allegory screaming that the current Resident of the Oval office may not be alive in a few years from overusing his political muscles. Who really knows?

[H2O Man]

24. Yep.

Steroids are even giving the sport of boxing a black eye. I think boxing needs a zero tolerance policy.

[mark414]

25. to her credit, she's the first prominent athlete to own up to what everybody already knows

and while she most likely deserves whatever punishments she ends up getting, at least she had the balls (not literally of course) to admit her mistakes.

meanwhile all the other cheaters try the "i didn't take them knowingly" excuse...when it's more than obvious that that's a load of shit

[H2O Man]

26. No, she's not.

Not only is she not the first prominent athlete to admit steroid use, she only admitted it as part of a guilty plea. She was caught.

On edit: She also claims that she didn't know what it was that she was taking.

[mark414]

27. oy, i must've missed that part

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