All we had in our childhood and early youth who wanted to be a Monday morning, a past halfway between the I and I can not. An unfinished epic. A BRAC Ulysses Ithaca achieve that never arrives. I belong to a generation of heroes. Thousands of bad apples are consumed around. A real elephant graveyard. Among all these stories, it might be that of Marion Jones more pustules that lift the soul. It had everything. An insolent youth, dazzling charisma, painfully bright future, a firm step, and benefits under media, an incorruptible beauty of simplicity. A whole string of greatness. And so, as the pigeon flying up first and then proceed to their destination, she rose herself up in hectometer hectometer fly towards glory.
With just fifteen years, while millions of young people fought to compete in a national circuit, won a brand that was among the twenty most prominent in the world. As walls of Jericho fell at the sound of trumpets, Marion Jones could see how the walls Timer steel would succumb to its passage by magic. Athens, Seville, Sydney, Edmonton. Mourn with joy seeing her climb the podium with his medal around his neck while an impressive sounding anthem of the United States that made us all Americans for a few seconds, no doubt chilled breath, but we still brought down on his knees before he was drawing on tartan the silhouette of a living legend. No one in many years silenced in this way a stage of forty thousand people with their presence. No one captured so many flashes on the starting blocks. No blood froze for just over ten seconds as she did. And no one crossed the finish line with a smile as redeeming his defeat their adversaries. A smile from 2003 would become death rattle.
was his coach Trevor Graham who sent a syringe containing a previously unknown steroid Anti-Doping Agency to the United States. While it was known that it was a designer drug named as THG, synthesized specifically to not be detected in doping controls. Had recently dropped her husband, shot putter CJ Hunter, the mole Bovidae and pimping any good mother would want for his Vestal. But the Queen of Ebon suspicion began after the scandal of her husband. Months later divorced to make way for a new relationship with the sprinter Tim Montgomery. However, little by little have been emerging in the shadows of an underworld that condemn particular Jones to undergo their punishment of Sisyphus. The BALCO scandal took shape. Victor Conte, the Supreme Creator of the trap, declaimed in a television program which was already an open secret: Marion Jones was on the blacklist of athletes who had used THG. Thus, the former goddess of speed changing salmon tracks by the Daedalus gray busybody. A maze in which you furtive darts fell from the four cardinal points. So, he had no choice but to take the club with their hands to destroy itself its own golden statue. In late 2007, publicly intoned Mea Culpa. The five medals won at the Sydney Olympics and contemplate only in the shadow that hung on the walls of his room. But there was still the worst. While
died the winter of 2007, filtered through his gut and his heart the sadness of an autumn more charcoal than ever. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment and two years probation, changing the endless hours of training for 800 hours of community service. "I ask for compassion as a human being who I am," she said through tears at the door of the Court in a paroxysm of impotence. To no avail. And holy burial took a Legend.
All around, as many gladiators were put to the gallows, her husband Tim Montgomery, Antonio Pettigrew, Gatlin, Jerome Young and Alvin Harrison all advanced students of Trevor Graham. But the same tsunami shook the HSI team led by John Smith, who coached the glories of the level of Mo Greene and Ato Boldon. While some stars were removed in time and escape the plague, as many fifth columnists of the HSI as Torri Edwards, Larry Wade, Kelly White and Christie Gaines were publicly shot through serving his sentence. Is, all of it, the ember, still smoldering embers of a lost generation. I saw grow. I watched it die. She went to athletics.
But not everything is in California and end in the running track. History oozes sport identical cases in different space and time. Linford Christie, Marco Pantani, Dwain Chambers, Martina Hingis, Ben Johnson, Johann Mühlegg, Paquillo, Alberto García and an endless string of convicts who is currently a metal ring in the figure of Lance Armstrong. Anyone could say that data in hand, all the elite Olympic, sooner or later, ends up being in the shadow of a more than justified suspicion. The IOC, UN something like sports and therefore politically correct to satiety, lunges for the jugular doping with the noble intention of sweeping the red carpet for anyone to encounter the thorns of doping. The main reason given is its hackneyed litany is at the base of the youngest. These innocent creatures are mimetic with religious fervor and passion as an altar boy for all those heroes who can run faster, jump higher and hit harder. A crumbling ending idolatry as totems eaten by termites. So, the disappointment is the metaphysics of those who drink of the sport's elite. Young and old.
But the hypocrisy that tarnishes the IOC and all sports bureaucrats stripe shame. Comfort to dodge the problem instead of grabbing by the horns. The first thing to do heroin addict who wants to give up his addiction is recognizing the problem. Also involved agencies should recognize the problem of doping is not as isolated a few cheats, but as something more homogeneous. As he drives away flies, shake doping cases that tarnish the image of high-level sport to props of big mafia and athletes who, though aware of playing cat and mouse, they take this risk in exchange for glory. What is more, to stand in either the play, most likely live to the end of their days bathed in glitter thanks to contracts with sports brands, advertising, TV, talks and a whole fount of resources that can ensure the most magnificent life. Who does not want to bite like forbidden fruit? And worse: Overrides the work and sacrifice made by these athletes as children simply because of being caught in a doping control? Is it really a lie to others or to themselves by not being able to face the sun and with full guarantees they want? Different fate befell the athletes of the former Soviet Union and East Germany. About 10,000 athletes were subjected to institutionalized doping program in which they were forced to doping with steroids in quantities of Ben Johnson tripled. The Berlin Wall fell, many of these athletes enjoyed a freedom that was alien to them then to denounce the practices undertaken by the State to get to overshadow the U.S. in its fight to prove the supposed superiority of the Communist. Many of these athletes came to ask his world records were annulled, as is the case of Ines Geipel. Others, such as Heidi Krieger, paid a higher price. Today Andreas Kriegel called because of the amount of male hormones made him eat without any evidence of it. The same fate befell the Soviet Union and later Russia, which since then has been tumbling in each of the Olympic events in which it operates. The Russians did not know what it is to lead an Olympic medal since. Moreover, Olympic medals are missing after Olympics, so far as to have lost no more and no less than 20 medals in Beijing regarding the conduct of Athens. And with doping in the making.
A doping politicized and forced the poor lambs who suffered these museums in government service that has nothing to do with doping conducted by the U.S. athletes, for example, that act according to their own individual freedom. A doping in order to account, there is whatever your choice. And, above all, a doping is much more involved than what the cameras end pointing. In this case, the robber is: the laboratory, is one step ahead of police, anti-doping agencies. Quite possibly, the first pass through the station door without raising the slightest suspicion. So, what is the line between dark doping and that other doping athletes practice every power-base of all kinds, sometimes eventually end up going in future lists of banned substances? Do not use all athletes to more or less elaborate farthings? Abort that the work done to door to exhaustion? All athletes ingested substances that improve performance and capacity to assimilate the training-chemicals are legal or not, or such other natural misnamed. Or do not follow identical processes and chemicals from each other? Is everything all chemical is bad and natural is good? Hector Abad As noted in a press article entitled Legalizing doping, we have the case of hematocrit. Where is the difference between artificial and natural? "It is desirable that an athlete has a high percentage of red blood cells because they are the ones that carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles and the oxygen is the fuel of the body. At the same time, it is also good to have a blood diluted prevent thrombosis. There is a natural way to increase the hematocrit: living in the mountains. If you're going to live six months above the 3,000 meters in a desert of the Andes, just with a hematocrit of more than 50% when the normal sea level is 40%. The same effect that comes from living at high altitude can be achieved by injecting a hormone, EPO. The method of removal is permitted, the chemical method, no, not that of autologous blood, but this decision is capricious. " Is it pursues the chemical or what creates inequality? Perhaps the line is more diffuse than it seems. That is why for magazines Nature and The Lancet -Two of the leading scientific journals-is preferable to legalize doping and provide medical care open to all athletes to prevent the real risks. They also came to doubt the effectiveness of anti-doping tests and the real harm it does to athletes.
The Austrian economist Mises and described the effects of the intervention prohibitive in any field of public life. This will end up leading to new future interventions, rather than eradicate the problem, end up gaining weight. On the issue of doping, as in the drugs, increases the mafias that traffic in illegal substances synthesized in laboratories outside the criteria minimally required health. That's where part of the problem lies. However, huge amounts of money go down the drain in anti-doping programs and controls to detect drugs not yet known, as it happened a long time with THG. Going even further, a more equal footing would provide a doping programs attended and according to medical criteria. Would no longer be a struggle of good and bad. Would be equal in itself to transparency would prevail and the real fight on the court face to face. An equality that, even with the pipe dream that no one is doped, there would be, since they are the same biological conditions those of an Ethiopian distance runner than a Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca. Logic squared.
Finally, as a victim of vulgar demagoguery of bureaucrats without office or profit in the real sport, I must say that is even more disappointment for each of those children who claim to defend the fact of seeing their icons fall like pawns chess to an empty box that eternal condemnation to oblivion rather than see them compete on equal terms. Is it intellectually and morally healthy singing in my ear that the Magi there until they reach thirty? That and no other is the hypocrisy with which wind and water snakes, the IOC and other relevant agencies not forgetting to get into flour deceptions that sooner or later, most damaging to those who claim to protect. Attest.
Héctor Abad ended his article with an argument worthy of collecting fetish: "In any case, they say, many drugs that you take a mediocre athlete never get the results of a large one. Doping is not what makes Phelps an extraordinary athlete, is a mixture of genes that favor with an iron discipline that they have done to train five hours a day for the past 15 years. Although perhaps not the discipline is one virtue: it may come also written in our genes "
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