Metric Miler wrote:
Deanouk wrote:Lol. Love the way Amos and his agent were informed in advance that they were going to conduct an out of competition test! If true, this is a disgrace and it is strange that this wasn't made comment n interested sledge last year. Puts everything he's done into question. The whole world would know about it if he were American or British and everyone on here would be calling him a cheat.
My friend, this is just what I was talking about in the other thread about Makhloufi. It is difficult to trust athletes from countries like Botswana, Kenya, Russia, Ethiopia where the drug testing is so poor. But nobody cares lol.
Amos lives and trains in Potchefstroom, South-Africa. Clearly you and your buddy are misinformed. Anti-doping is alive and well here.
Do you know how many any top Britons come to Potchefstroom to train every single year? Are they all doping? What about all those Europeans who go to Kenya to train for weeks or months at a time, aren't they guilty?
That article is also bullshit, being informed prior to a test? Playing cat and mouse? Someone was probably riding the gravy train and making money by saying all that crap. Yes he did miss a test but the circumstances are way different than described in this paper. But thats a personal matter he and his federation can sort out.
Back to original point the poster was making, everyone out there wondering. Happiness is all about perspective, just because African kids don't have stuff that would make the typical American kid happy doesn't mean they are any less happy.
The typical African kid in Botswana values different things, materialistic possessions doesn't equal happiness for many of them. In general I'd say African kids growing up without play stations and all that are more happy than most kids growing up in the big city with all their fancy toys.
Living in Botswana is a privilege that few are lucky to have, it is one of Africa's most beautiful, stable and well run countries. Your idea of happiness is just way different than theirs.