Sorry Dan, your response is nonsense. Was Mary Slaney the only woman on birth control pills? No. Who else has a false positive, then? No one. Has Mary Slaney ever shown that her E/P ratio is elevated because of birth control pills? No. Has she ever offered to be tested? The answer is no. Why? You know.
Why not? The answer certainly is not money. Much of it was wasted on nuisance lawsuits. It would seem that if athletes were being wronged by the big, bad IAAF then the cause would be there for an advocate of fairness. The reason is simple, when Slaney was busted, she chose to drag a lot of well-meaning people into this last, most public tantrum of hers. malmo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Slaney for Hall of Fame? --- Kurt Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would seem to me that the burden of proof here is on Slaney. The > test has already been "proven" and is currently in place and accepted > as a valid measure of doping. If Slaney (or anyone else) cares to > assert that the test is flawed or that she is an exception, it's going > to be up to her to prove it. It's not up to the doping agencies to > refute her assertion. Sorry Kurt, but that's nonsense. If the test is to determine the livelihood of all athletes, then it should be well enough tested to ensure it is valid across the full range of athletes. That includes testing it on women taking birth control pills. If that was done, then there's no issue. Just release the findings and be done with it. If it hasn't been done, then the test is standing on very shaky ground and deserves to be fired away at. > As things now stand Mary is a convicted doper. > I don't favor putting Ben Johnson in any sort of Canadian Track Hall of > Fame, neither do I favor putting Slaney in the US Hall of Fame. Not the best of examples, seeing as how Ben is a more or less admitted doper and Mary isn't. If the test which found her guilty can't be supported (emphasis on "if"), then the whole thing is hogwash. Dan ===== http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design & Custom Programming http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F ------------------------------------------------------------ @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax / / __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
