Doping and the Beijing Olympics

Even though Beijing will have the highest number of drug tests at an Olympic Games, the chance of being caught and disqualified doesn’t seem to deter athletes.

An article on Sportingo has some interesting points.

The mantra seems to be ‘abuse your body’ but don’t worry there is a ‘pill to fix all your ills’. I am not convinced that the public really gives two hoots about drugs in sport because they themselves are performance enhancing so it’s not a great moral leap to accept then that athletes should do same.

I am sure that when Usain Bolt set a new world record of 9.72secs for the 100m recently, the first question would have been what drugs was he on. It’s