Once a cheat always a cheat ?
In my view yes , that doesn't mean that athletes shouldn't be given a second chance .
That said the Olympics is the pinnacle of the the athletes career and to compete at the highest level should come with the knowledge and trust that once on those blocks the race is even when the gun sounds off .
Ability alone determines the winner .
The ruling from the Arbitration For Sport has overturned the IOC decision to ban any athlete from competing in the Olympics after falling foul of the drug ban policy. The UK athletics committee will continue to uphold the IOC ban .
Until now athletes who test positive for banned substances are still allowed to compete in other competitions like the World Athletics Championships or Commonwealth Games after completing the term of suspension handed down to them.
The reigning 400 metres Olympic champion Lashawn Merritt has been given the chance to defend his title won in Beijing . He tested positive 3 times in 2009/2010, once for Dehydroepiandosterone, a steroid used ( and be prepared for this ) in a penis enlargement drug !!
I thought you could only get banned from aiding your performance on the track but it appears to also include the bedroom .
Drug cheats have no place in sport , especially the Olympics, and by missing out on them should act as a deterrent to young up and coming athletes of the future.
Just because Merritt and other previously banned British stars like Dwain Chambers and the Tour de France cyclist David Millar are now clean and have served their punishments it doesn't change the fact that they cheated out their peers of a spot on a team , a place in the final or even the glory of a gold medal .
In Merritt's case he also helped The 4x400 metre US relay team to Gold and the World record time at the World Champs in 2008 so there would be suspicion over those performances too.
Maybe the athletes taking part at next years London games could protest in unity and refuse to compete against the cheats of the sport by refusing to leave their blocks and walking away but that is wishful thinking .
It may take a few more steroids for Merritt not to look so small thou ....
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That said the Olympics is the pinnacle of the the athletes career and to compete at the highest level should come with the knowledge and trust that once on those blocks the race is even when the gun sounds off .
Ability alone determines the winner .
The ruling from the Arbitration For Sport has overturned the IOC decision to ban any athlete from competing in the Olympics after falling foul of the drug ban policy. The UK athletics committee will continue to uphold the IOC ban .
Until now athletes who test positive for banned substances are still allowed to compete in other competitions like the World Athletics Championships or Commonwealth Games after completing the term of suspension handed down to them.
The reigning 400 metres Olympic champion Lashawn Merritt has been given the chance to defend his title won in Beijing . He tested positive 3 times in 2009/2010, once for Dehydroepiandosterone, a steroid used ( and be prepared for this ) in a penis enlargement drug !!
I thought you could only get banned from aiding your performance on the track but it appears to also include the bedroom .
Drug cheats have no place in sport , especially the Olympics, and by missing out on them should act as a deterrent to young up and coming athletes of the future.
Just because Merritt and other previously banned British stars like Dwain Chambers and the Tour de France cyclist David Millar are now clean and have served their punishments it doesn't change the fact that they cheated out their peers of a spot on a team , a place in the final or even the glory of a gold medal .
In Merritt's case he also helped The 4x400 metre US relay team to Gold and the World record time at the World Champs in 2008 so there would be suspicion over those performances too.
Maybe the athletes taking part at next years London games could protest in unity and refuse to compete against the cheats of the sport by refusing to leave their blocks and walking away but that is wishful thinking .
It may take a few more steroids for Merritt not to look so small thou ....
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