On Feb 29, 10:41 am, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:Bill C said:De Bonis out of Lugano
By Susan Westemeyer
Quoted message said:Gerolsteiner has withdrawn Francesco De Bonis from its line-up for
this weekend's Gran Premio di Lugano, and will hold him out of
competition for two weeks. The Italian is being treated with cortisone
for a bee sting, and under the regulations of the Movement for
Credible Cycling, he may not ride, even with a therapeutic use
exemption.
Quoted message said:It's a complete and total joke. Can someone point me to another
credible "Pro" sport where this would even be concievable?
We'd never have a game in the NFL, or NHL for sure. The other thing
ta's crazy is that the anti-doping crusaders find this perfectly
rational and acceptable.
I can see it now; "Hey Manning you got stung by a bee and took
cortisone. You're out of the Superbowl."
Makes sense, right?
Bill C
It's the War on People, Bill.
Like not giving the terminally ill sufficient pain meds: "We wouldn't
want them to become addicted".
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Yeah. That's another, and actually important one. Luckily both my
Mother and Grandmother, had an old, proudly, boots covered in [censored],
"Polack" doctor who did take care of both of them while battling
cancer, Paget's disease, etc...They barred him from the local hospital
because he thought [censored] like that was BS and said so. A friend who's
had major alcohol problems ran into another good one. He's in a last
resort situation, and isn't drinking, because his liver had quit and
he almost died. His doc was amazed he made it out of the hospital, got
him cleaned up, gave him whatever meds he needed to stay clean, and
it's worked fantastically. His Doc retired because he was sick of the
BS. They assigned him to a new doc, but he was on vacation for a
month, so when my friend ran out of meds, they refused to write a new
script, until he'd seen the new Doc in three weeks. Without the meds
he's probably dead in a week. No problem, right? He had to track down
his old doctor, get a script, pay full non-insurance price since the
Doc wasn't part of an approved provider anymore, because they were
afraid of having the government come down on them for "not up to
standards" prescriptions, and drug dealing.
Anyway, post rant. Here's another example of the difference between
cycling and a real Pro sport:
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS01/802290335/1002
Quoted:
Faulk told The Advertiser on Thursday that he immediately informed the
Patriots of the incident and denied any drug use to coach Bill
Belichick.
"It was not my jacket,'' Faulk said. "As soon as I got back to Boston,
I talked to coach Belichick. I told him that the drug test would come
back clean. He said he believed me.''
Brothers said that the negative drug test would keep Faulk from having
to enter the NFL's substance abuse system. "Kevin doesn't want his
fans to think that he's not taking responsibility for having it on his
person," he said, "but he definitely shouldn't be having his name drug
through the mud like is being done right now.
What a difference , huh? No two year ban because they read his mind.
Totally transparent, through the actual legal system, a clean test,
and he's allowed to get on with his life.
Gotta be all wrong, right? Can't let a little thing like a passed
test, stand in the way of "justice". They should've just kept lab
shopping until they got a positive. Isn't that the procedure?
Bill C
