YallDontGetIt wrote:
When are people going to understand? This is what winners do. You push the limits and dance on the line of what is legal and appropriate.
There is no necessary connection between the behavior of winners and the moral status of an action. Winners doing something is not a necessary or sufficient condition for that thing being permissible.
YallDontGetIt wrote:
So Salazar applied for a bunch of TUEs and was denied. Yea he pushed the envelope. Where is the violation here?
It is an example of intentional abuse of the TUE system to gain an advantage. His intentions were the same as a doper's are. The consequences, that is, him being denied the TUEs, are irrelevant. Intentions matter.
YallDontGetIt wrote:
So what if he has his athletes were tested by an outside lab? This is not a violation of anything in the rule book.
There is the letter of the rules and the spirit of the rules.
Salazar has without doubt violated the spirit of the rules. Whether he has also violated the letter of the rules as well remains to be seen.