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Post by GitteK on May 25, 2007 12:23:40 GMT -5
So ....... my husband now sits mesmerized in front of the TV watching our national hero Bjarne Riis admitting that he was doped with EPO when he won the Tour de France in 1996. This is a day of national mourning for the Danes. Any one out there with a word of comfort ? I suppose Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong are as pure as the newly fallen snow   ;D ;D what is it with men and their sports ? |
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Post by sistereurope on May 25, 2007 12:27:23 GMT -5
Gitte, I'd bet that ALL of the US team were doped. They might as well all get together and come "clean", so to speak.
I guess that it's the combination of money and sports that makes them do it...there's a lot of cash in those endorsement deals.
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Post by joan1 on May 25, 2007 15:08:53 GMT -5
I am a terrible person, I think professional sports are stupid, the money is stupid, and the endorsment deals that some of these pros get are gross, plus , many of them are held up as " good examples" to our children and I do NOT think many of them are worth the sweat on their backs. . Blasphemy to soem I know.
My dad has coached amateur sports for that last 45 years, and he does it for an honorairum of 100 bucks a year. He is my sports hero. NOt some kid who at 23 is making more money in a day then the average family of five in some countries makes in a year. Teachers, nurses, all the ways money can be spent, and we ( as a foolish society) worship some kid who is good at PLAYING!!!!!!
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Post by GitteK on May 25, 2007 15:11:29 GMT -5
joan - I am 100% with you on this. Ask Ronaldino (or whatever they are called): "what are you really good at ?"
Answer: "I am really good at kicking an inflated leather bag around on a grass field............. and BTW they pay me 50 million euros per year to do it........."
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Post by holger on May 25, 2007 16:37:21 GMT -5
I can't see paying anyone that amount of money. Neither sports figures, movie or music stars nor investment bankers. Good money, yes, excessive money, no. Not when most people and the planet really need care.  |
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Post by diz on May 25, 2007 18:58:46 GMT -5
Ha, as a non-sporty person, I take the view that all competitors seek an unfair advantage by *training*. What about the rest of us? Where are the blogging olympics, I ask?
As for cyclists, we know Armstrong was clean because he says so, and will sue anyone who claims otherwise. And for those he beat, they should sue their pharmacists as the drugs weren't doing what they claimed if they couldn't beat a non-user.
Someone was talking a while back about the stats for premature death amongst sports stars who may have used drugs, and the money really isn't a recompense :-(
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Post by Shoesy on May 25, 2007 22:56:03 GMT -5
Yeah...........some men love sports.....more than their wives !  I often feel very neglected whenever there's a series of soccer championship games going on because my hubby would be glued to the T.V. EVERY evening.  |
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Post by goldenmama on May 27, 2007 8:23:52 GMT -5
>:(This subject gets me hot under the collar. My area glorifies high school sports, with the local paper providing pages of coverage and honoring monthly "scholar athletes". You never see them honor a "scholar musician" or a "scholar community volunteer". So many parents believe they and their athletic children are the pillars of the community. Once they're out of high school, no one even remembers what they did! Big whoop!
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Post by Penny on May 27, 2007 11:40:38 GMT -5
About the only "sports" I like is basketball but it has become almost as rough as football. I could not even tell you the name of one player anymore.
However I love ice skating. I don't know how many people tell me "that's not a sport". my answer you go out and try to balance and move on those two thin blades. Men think sports have to be rough and tough.
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Let the riot begin! LOL - 
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