Wejo,
You make some excellent points about Galea and assuming the worst about his patients. While the jury is still out on the guy, there can be no doubt that he and Lindsay do legitimate medicine.
However, I think you're wrong to criticize the NY Times for breaking the story. When an internationally acclaimed sports doctor linked to many famous athletes is about to be indicted in Canada for drug charges, and is under investigation by the FBI in the U.S. for potentially supplying PEDs to athletes, that is by itself a story regardless if there is any connection to Tiger Woods. I'm not sure why the story is just breaking now, but it is a story nonetheless.
I don't think I'm alone in saying that I am past the point of being cynical about PED use and elite athletes. I have given too many athletes the benefit of the doubt, only to be burned later. Even though HGH is legal in Canada (it is actually legal in the U.S. too), I find it amazing that Galea would associate himself with a WADA and USADA banned PED whose notoriety has now reached the same stature as EPO and andro.
I am actually an acquaintance of sorts of Bill Romanowski, one of Galea's clients. My best friend from high school played and roomed with him at Boston College. I know for a fact that Romo was using steriods at BC. Yet in his book and in that ridiculous 60 minutes interview, Romo said he only started taking PEDs towards the end of his NFL career. He is still lying out his ass.
As for Tiger, who knows. Being treated by Galea certainly makes him guilty of nothing. But let's just say if evidence does surface about Tiger, I for one will not be shocked. I'm way past that point.
Wejo: A Critique of Your Story on Dr. Galea is in Order
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I am continually shocked that no one seems to live by the old saying...
"if its too good to be true, it probably is."
This guy is such a rare genius that only he can cure the ills of pro athletes?? Come on, no one saw this coming? -
But like the guy said, people don't need to go to him to get HGH and steroids. That can't be what brought athletes to him, because HGH isn't hard to come by.
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But, like the guy didn't say, "if they come to me anyway, I'll still give them HGH. Or whatever they ask for."
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and because obviously the drugs make him hit a 3 iron to within 3 yards from 200 yds out....
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It's Anthony Galea, not Michael Galea
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Don't you mean your former best friend? Romo is going to beat his ass.
Good point hayduke.
To Noreaster Bunny, I think pro athletes don't get there HGH from the local Bally Fitness for obvious reasons. It's not like you want the towel boy jamming a needle in Tiger's butt then testing the National Enquirer about it. These doctors do one thing for the drug cheats, they lend legitimacy to the cheating. This guy might get cleared but I think his appointment calendar just opened up a bit. -
They don't have to get the drugs themselves, but their coaches can easily have a friend of a friend pick it up or order it from Conte (in the past). No need to visit a doctor.
I'm not saying this guy didn't give them HGH, just that that wasn't why everyone went to him. -
I would hope it goes without saying that association with Galea doesn't make an athlete guilty of PED use. It should also go without saying that there is a big difference between Weldon's association with Galea and someone, say, with superhuman strength who is associated with him.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke16-2009dec16,0,2923714.column -
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But like the guy said, people don't need to go to him to get HGH and steroids. That can't be what brought athletes to him, because HGH isn't hard to come by.
Yes, they aren't hard to come by. But, when you're a professional athlete, do you want joe schmo body builder injecting you with crap from mexico or a trained physician with clean needles and presumably pure drugs? -
I found Wejo's story of extreme interest.
It further reassures me that the anti-doping stance of this website is not just a stance, but a deep belief from an insider's (deep inside) standpoint and experience.
Further, in accepting the commercial nature of this website, i am again further reassured that it has a genuine mission - the Dream Mission - likely birthed from the concrete disappointment of not having fulfilled one's own.
At the very worse this could be pure sportsmanship: i couldnt do it, you guys try now. At the very best it might set a new standard of the virtuous mix of economics and altruism which in speculative decades has been dangerously diluted in favor of surreal "profit" performances.
If it had been me,with all that first hand knowledge and experience - I might have avoided a trolling paragraph in the article - the one about the injections -. But that also seems to be in character (with the founder and with the website) and likely a sign of authenticity.
While not being by far an elite athlete, I feel however that i have logged enough miles and energy consumption to say this: the performance/injury in Sports relationship is beginning to have social implications and ramifications. Public Opinion is beginning to explore the idea that Woods might have been a doper because he was a cheater-husband.
And the irony is that depending on your agenda, pro-femina or pro-competition, one might be far worse than the other. Inevitably, a measure of one's success can no longer be seen from a one-sided perspective. By the same token, society as a whole probably needs to do some motivational re-engineering on the many and conflicting moral and behavioural platforms currently implemented. I.e., for the sake of argument, for Woods like for Phelps (the first to come to mind) "what is the point of becoming the best" if you cannot publicly or privately enjoy the freedom of choice, of desire, that goes with being the best?
I say the first step must be taken by the practioners, by the athletes themselves, to make the why of their doing extremely clear: to themselves and to others. -
the point could be wrote:
I found Wejo's story of extreme interest.
It further reassures me that the anti-doping stance of this website is not just a stance, but a deep belief from an insider's (deep inside) standpoint and experience.
Further, in accepting the commercial nature of this website, i am again further reassured that it has a genuine mission - the Dream Mission - likely birthed from the concrete disappointment of not having fulfilled one's own.
At the very worse this could be pure sportsmanship: i couldnt do it, you guys try now. At the very best it might set a new standard of the virtuous mix of economics and altruism which in speculative decades has been dangerously diluted in favor of surreal "profit" performances.
If it had been me,with all that first hand knowledge and experience - I might have avoided a trolling paragraph in the article - the one about the injections -. But that also seems to be in character (with the founder and with the website) and likely a sign of authenticity.
While not being by far an elite athlete, I feel however that i have logged enough miles and energy consumption to say this: the performance/injury in Sports relationship is beginning to have social implications and ramifications. Public Opinion is beginning to explore the idea that Woods might have been a doper because he was a cheater-husband.
And the irony is that depending on your agenda, pro-femina or pro-competition, one might be far worse than the other. Inevitably, a measure of one's success can no longer be seen from a one-sided perspective. By the same token, society as a whole probably needs to do some motivational re-engineering on the many and conflicting moral and behavioural platforms currently implemented. I.e., for the sake of argument, for Woods like for Phelps (the first to come to mind) "what is the point of becoming the best" if you cannot publicly or privately enjoy the freedom of choice, of desire, that goes with being the best?
I say the first step must be taken by the practioners, by the athletes themselves, to make the why of their doing extremely clear: to themselves and to others.
What on earth are you talking about? -
let me simplify for you:
if you are in the dream business, you better know what dreaming is all about -
Wejo sounds a bit like Jose Canseco. Who is he going to throw under the bus next.
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If Woods and others are indicted by, say WADA, on this, will Weldon also be indicted? These people were all desperate for cures or faster healing. Or is Weldon practicing the tried and true theory of getting your side of the story out before anyone else picks up on it and breaks the news?
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If Woods and others are indicted by, say WADA, on this, will Weldon also be indicted? These people were all desperate for cures or faster healing. Or is Weldon practicing the tried and true theory of getting your side of the story out before anyone else picks up on it and breaks the news? Just askin........
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Dont know enough about legal system/antidoping, but i dont see any grounds for indictment.
After his article, maybe as an expert witness? -
Every Lets Run web page has the holier than thou attitude
condeming any who are accused (rightly or wrongly) of drug usage. BUT NOW that Wejo is in the same company (those related to the accused), he sounds like all the other atheletes trying to convince everyone of his innocense. I wonder if he now understands the damage he does to others with all this "cheaters cheaters cheaters accusations"
Looks like he may get a dose of his own medicine. Explain away Wejo, of course we believe you....... -
on the funny side, I must say Wejo putting in the paragraph about the ' unmarked syringe,...injecting vitamins' and then saying it was just a joke was great!! It totally fooled me at first....but when I read the next paragraph, it was so funny I fell off my chair!!!
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I agree that was great. I read it 3 times and then thought "How the f&^%$ could he let the doctor do that???" - he got me good.
