The article on the front page seems to pity the guy. but all i see is an arrogant athlete being negligent. The guy does coke 2 days before national champs? Even if coke was legal, I still would not have done coke a week before my damn championship meet. What a tool. He f***ed up, plain and simple, and it's his own damn fault for doing so.
"On a warm summer night in 2007, Thompson celebrated his career by going to a graduation party at a friend's house. He played beer pong and Call of Duty. A little after midnight, someone proposed getting some cocaine from a hook-up. Everyone chipped in five bucks, just enough for each person to take a small bump off the tip of a key. Thompson barely felt anything. Five bucks wasted, he thought.
The next day, Thompson left with Lakatos and an assistant coach for Indianapolis, where the Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships would begin the following morning. "