WTF????????????? wrote:
trollism wrote:So what you're saying is that she might have been mistaken and this coach was actually arguing how his coffee was made, nothing to do with a drug test?
Why do you people always side with cheats?
You're the reason why the sport is ruined.
Another friggin idiot (and I realize you're trolling). What I'm saying is that she should report to the relevant authority what she believes she saw, otherwise posting such things on social media elicits moronic comments like:
"So what you're saying is that she might have been mistaken and this coach was actually arguing how his coffee was made, nothing to do with a drug test?"
and just becomes baseless background noise that no one takes seriously and makes the sport a joke in the eyes of the public not to mention innocent "athletes/coaches/agents" possibly "getting their reputations besmirched".
I agree.
As someone who takes anti-doping very seriously, I wince when those who are trying to do right end up setting back the seriousness of the issue by "crying wolf".
We need to take her claim seriously. But more importantly, she needs to take her claim seriously. Because as it stands, that lone tweet about an anonymous and unknown coach with an anonymous and unknown issue has rallied the doping apologists against her, and now her stance is on the back foot. And they are winning, because she hasn't put up anything substantive to back it up.
She will have valuable things to say in the future, and I will want to listen. But it gets harder to listen to somebody who has incomplete thoughts, whether they are an anti-doping advocate or not.
And from the tone of her public attitude, she will not understand this fact, and will rebuff her stance: that saying anything is good. Saying everything is good, saying anything is chaos. Follow up by being more specific. Follow up by giving your impressions of the subject of the protest. Follow up at all, instead of creating this void for the trolls to jump in and derail the effort.