In a message dated 9/29/00 7:40:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< USATF does not have any business doing drug testing, period. Giving it to
WADA may not be the answer, but if it gets the U.S. off the bad publicity
hook, who cares. At least this gets the dialogue going in that direction.
The drug/image problem is out of control and it's time for USATF to stop
being blamed for problems that they are only partially responsible for. >>
Thank the mother of jesus someone has the sense to say the above.
USATF, has, or never will have any business doing drug testing.
I always liken it to this.
Say you are a supervisor in a company. You are in charge of both management
of your best employees, and the drug testing protocol.
Now, imagine that your best employee tests positive............Keep in mind,
that this employee is the one that makes you profitable, and makes you look
good.
What do you do?
Announce the positive, and lose your job? Announce the positive, and lose
millions of dollars for NBC?
All of you higher ups out there think that I'm all about saying that
everyone's on drugs.
What you fail to realize is that I know who's doing drugs. I hear what's
going on. Don't get caught up in the protocols that you think are blessed by
the bible.
I'm not here to be a negative impact in track and field. I am here, however,
to be a realistic influence. I'm sick and tired of all of you old guys
sitting back and saying that everyone is clean SIMPLY because they never
tested positive.
Don't blame me for the system failures.
Oh, I left the Olympics because of an injury? You mean to tell me that
someone is going to go home and miss the whole Olympic experience because of
an injury.?
BULLSH**
Do you mean to tell me that a fan who sprained his ankle would forfeit his
tickets to watch one of the greatest sporting events ever imagined.. No way.
All of you guys who get mad at me, Malmo, and Craddock. Please take a trip
to the reality well.
You can believe that your sport is clean, but we know better.
Quit making us the bad guys, and listen for one god damned minute.
Schiefer
