Attempting to race

In article <[email hidden]>,

gds said:

I now have the perfect reason for my consistently por race reesults.

You see I have been only attempting to race.

The only thing that makes me think Basso may be sincere is that he has
also publicly acknowledged that "attempting to dope" is the same as
doping from a disciplinary point of view.

But might it have implications for previous finishes if he admitted he
had previously doped? So this might be his lame excuse to explain why he
gets to keep his previous, """clean"""* finishes.

*ain't enough scare quotes in all of Usenet...

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

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Quoted message said:

You see I have been only attempting to race.

The only thing that makes me think Basso may be sincere is that he has
also publicly acknowledged that "attempting to dope" is the same as
doping from a disciplinary point of view.

But might it have implications for previous finishes if he admitted he
had previously doped? So this might be his lame excuse to explain why he
gets to keep his previous, """clean"""* finishes.

Which means there is a HUGE difference between saying he "attempted" to dope
vs actually doing so, regardless of the immediate disciplinary consequences.
If he can make a case that he attempted, but didn't actually dope, then his
past victories aren't tainted and likely to be taken away.

It may actually be true that he didn't dope, but it's a terribly convenient
(and easy, in light of a lack of positive doping controls) thing to claim.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

gds said:

I now have the perfect reason for my consistently por race reesults.

You see I have been only attempting to race.

The only thing that makes me think Basso may be sincere is that he has
also publicly acknowledged that "attempting to dope" is the same as
doping from a disciplinary point of view.

But might it have implications for previous finishes if he admitted he
had previously doped? So this might be his lame excuse to explain why he
gets to keep his previous, """clean"""* finishes.

*ain't enough scare quotes in all of Usenet...

Yet another reason why real sports don't change the outcome of an event based on
lab results or evidence uncovered later.

No one will ever admit to anything on this basis.

Ron

RonSonic said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
gds <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I now have the perfect reason for my consistently por race reesults.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You see I have been only attempting to race.

Quoted message said:

The only thing that makes me think Basso may be sincere is that he has
also publicly acknowledged that "attempting to dope" is the same as
doping from a disciplinary point of view.

Quoted message said:

But might it have implications for previous finishes if he admitted he
had previously doped? So this might be his lame excuse to explain why he
gets to keep his previous, """clean"""* finishes.

Quoted message said:

*ain't enough scare quotes in all of Usenet...

Yet another reason why real sports don't change the outcome of an event based on
lab results or evidence uncovered later.

No one will ever admit to anything on this basis.

Ron- Hide quoted text -

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Isn't this why they invented the asterick ;-)

When body building divided into doped and clean categories the doped
guys were much bigger. If we adopt this for cycling it will be the
opposite.