Tour de France and drugs
As expected Floyd Landis's second urine sample has tested positive for drugs, and it looks certain he will be stripped of his Tour de France title.I don't really understand the mentality, but then again I don't really understand the drug testing mechanism, so . It seems to me Landis and other sportsmen caught out must be in one of three scenarios. :
1) They thought drug testing doesn't catch the guilty that often and they are taking a calculated risk
2) They thought drug testing does catch the guilty usually but if it does they plan to claim that it is 'natural' and still be allowed to win
3) They didn't take drugs and are innocent and unlucky.
Perhaps there are more. Certainly there's possibly a fourth, which is they took a substance they didn't know was banned. This has been used by Barry Bonds, the generally-thought-to-be-guilty record-hitting baseball player. David Runcimann has an article about him in the LBR (Subscribers), in which he suggests perhaps a fifth explanation, they do take drugs but have convinced themseves they are the victims.
posted by Matthew @ 8/05/2006 01:22:00 PM
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