Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
"but in a sport where new training methods,
new shoes, new materials, new surfaces are quickly absorbed
why not the new pharmacological innovations!? Why do we
distrust so much science and all the sudden we want everyone
to be clean!"
Many of the perfromancing enhancing pharmacological innovations have
unacceptable health risks. If we give the green light to using the same, then
we would be promoting self-destructive behavior. By maintaining the ban on
drugs we discourage the proliferation of their use.
Because some people will use drugs, although prohibited, no more invalidates the
wisdom of discouraging drug use than does the fact that some people commit
murder would invalidate the wisdom of discouraging murder as social policy.
I suggest that the use of drugs has resulted in a great drop of interest in our
sport because if one suspects the champion of winning on the virtue of illegal
substances, what is there to cheer about in his or her win?
