Until the Big Four sports in North America (baseball, basketball, football and ice hockey) as well as NASCAR ™ irrevocably adopts the World Anti-Doping Code, rather than a limited list agreed to with the so-called "players' associations", one can never truly believe any athlete who says they were "clean" when the drug policies were a joke. Particularly with Roger Clemens and the so-called "home run king" Sammy Sosa. It is important to remember Clemens is charged with perjury, not with being juiced up.
One's hopes that things will improve got dashed with the news that Donald Fehr will now be running the NHL Player's Assocation. Remember he was absolutely opposed to any kind of drug testing while he was kingpin for the baseball players until forced to cave in under huge political pressure.
Sad thing number one: If the charges are true, Clemens could get more time in jail than he would have if he had just told the truth in the first place.
Sad thing number two: Some of the sports not sanctioned by the Olympics but which have mandatory drug testing include: Angling, Body Building (after decades of resistance), Bridge, Checkers, Cheerleading, Darts, Dragon Boating, Go, Karate, Minigolf, Skateboarding, and Sleddogging. What do they understand that the millionaires in the locker rooms cannot even begin to comprehend? Oh, that YOU CAN'T CHEAT????
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