sssss wrote:
He is indeed a cheat, and as sad as this story is, it seems calibrated to elicit the maximum amount of sympathy from the running community. There is no way he used it only once.
The irony. You believe his admission, but say he is lying about only taking it once. Doesn't this make you, and those like you, interpretive liars?
I have historically felt drug takers were making mistakes, but have not felt sorry for them. Now I feel sorry for having had that attitude, helped along by this thread.
I have wondered, why am I constantly saying drugs don't matter in regard to performances cause they don't, yet on the opposite side of the fence of the drug accusers. That ends up putting me out in the field by myself, not on the side of anyone.
However, the drug users indeed are the victims. They are the ones who suffer as result. They suffer with their health, sometimes death, with lessor performances, with the fear, social stigma, sometimes exclusion from the sport. There are no others who suffer, except those close to them.
Those who are focus on winning, rather than the human condition, I feel sorry for you, for you are sad people.