Who is giving this guy money to train? Isn't your sponshorship canceled after you dope?
Surely ever country has the right to pick its own athletes how they want. This is a form of dictatorship
I mean the US has a 1st 3 past the post entry that nobody else uses
They might as well stop doping because the dopers have won. For everyone who supports drug cheats like Merritt and Chambers well done
This is good news. The guy already lost two seasons during the prime of his career. The doping moralizing needs to stop because it has been happening forever and will never stop.
Works for me - helps the US medal count in London.
Why is it sad? I don't condone doping or committing a crime... but once you do the time, that should be it. Merritt did the time and now he is free to compete.
I hope you think its sad because you don't agree with the original rule... not the ultimate outcome, right?
I would assume anyone who is reasonable would agree with the outcome. Doesn't mean you agree with the punishment.
A more appropriate response might be, "well, this shows that a punishment from a doping offense should automatically ban you from future Olympics. Hopefully now the IAAF and National governing body will make a doping offense even more harsh by adding to the sentence the inability to ever compete in the Olympics".
That is very different from saying its sad that he wasn't double punished.
Conto wrote:
Why is it sad? I don't condone doping or committing a crime... but once you do the time, that should be it. Merritt did the time and now he is free to compete.
I hope you think its sad because you don't agree with the original rule... not the ultimate outcome, right?
I would assume anyone who is reasonable would agree with the outcome. Doesn't mean you agree with the punishment.
A more appropriate response might be, "well, this shows that a punishment from a doping offense should automatically ban you from future Olympics. Hopefully now the IAAF and National governing body will make a doping offense even more harsh by adding to the sentence the inability to ever compete in the Olympics".
That is very different from saying its sad that he wasn't double punished.
+1. Merritt is a boss.
Where will he hang his London gold from ?
I would hardly call a 20 something year old guy who needs Extenze a boss, more like a bitch!
I bet 99% of LR posters couldn't stay within 1 second of Merritt in a 400... so until you can do that, Merritt is a boss.
Yes, he's a B.O.S.s.
boss is short for Bitch on Steroids right?
go_merritt wrote:
I bet 99% of LR posters couldn't stay within 1 second of Merritt in a 400
You are really going out on a limb with that estimate.
Are you actually saying that you do not think a whopping 99 of us out of 100 cannot run under 45 seconds for 400 meters....ooohhhhhhhkaaayyyyy
the handicap should be ten seconds
go_merritt wrote:
I bet 99% of LR posters couldn't stay within 1 second of Merritt in a 400... so until you can do that, Merritt is a boss.
Even better....
I bet 99% of LR posters couldn't stay within 1 second of Rashid Ramzi in a 400... so until you can do that, Rashid Ramzi is a boss.
Facteezy wrote:
This is good news. The guy already lost two seasons during the prime of his career. The doping moralizing needs to stop because it has been happening forever and will never stop.
Yes, and I wonder why people still try to prevent theft and murder despite the fact both will continue to happen.
Is that a clitoris or a tampon in Merritt's shorts?