Unless you have been living in a cave with Osama, you are aware that the greatest sporting event ever has been running for the past two weeks in Vancouver Canada. I'm speaking of course about the Olympic Games.
The very phrase " The Olympic Games" summons up an image of athletes competing fairly and honorably for the "glory of the game" Um not so fast. That may have been true during the time of your Grandfather's Olympics but nothing could be farther from the truth in regards to the modern Olympic Games
Today's Olympic athletes do not focus on "fair play". They focus their energies on masking any performance enhancing drugs they currently have in their system. Every Olympic Games we hear stories about an athlete who lost their gold medal as a result of a failed urine test. The athletes cheat - there is too much money involved for them not too. Remember Marion Jones?
We cannot expect Steroids and Human Growth Hormones to not be used anymore in the Olympics, just like we cannot expect any major league baseball player to not be "On the juice". Performance enhancing drugs is one genie that is not going back into any bottle anytime soon.
So if you can't beat them join them. I propose that we throw out any notion of drug testing at the Olympic Games. Assume the athletes are doped up and let the games begin.
Just think how exciting those games would be. Athletes pumped full of HGH and steroids would be shattering records left, right, and center. The television ratings would be through the roof and the corporate sponsors could rake in even more obscene amounts of money.
Yeah I think an Olympic Games that encourages performance enhancing drugs for the athletes could work very well. Think how exciting every event will be when athletes learn how to harness their "roid rage"
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