The Tour de France will replace football on our TV screens and with it the eternal debate on doping, while the subject does not touch on the World Cup. The round ball, world of virtue? Doping has always been hypocrisy. The financial stakes always prevail over the health stakes. It took the confessions of a few stars of the cycle to assert what everyone knew. The famous “Off”; We will say that in the world of football the “Off” is rather vigorous …
First the facts: unlike sports like athletics or cycling, there is hardly any positive control in football … But there is also very little control: 1000 times less than in cyclists , for which the pressure of public opinion is strong. For athletics we always say that a federation that seeks is a federation that finds …
There is also the fact that cheaters are always one step ahead of detection, because there are no drug addicts without medical complicity. The most recent product will never be detected. Because the counter test is developed almost instantly. By great professors who have established themselves on the street. We know them perfectly well in the scientific world.
Anti-doping control, for the poor and the disorganized.
In major medical conferences, however, there is no omerta. For example at the great congress on blood diseases, where EPO was born; Because we must never forget that EPO is an exceptional drug that changes the lives of thousands of cancer patients. In one of the last editions, one of the brightest biotechnology company presented the successor to EPO. More effective, almost without side effects and above all … undetectable, at least for a few years. If the medical specialists have this information, we can be sure that the shadow trainers also have it and must already do the tests on their less scrupulous foals. This type of doping cannot have an end, because it is a bottomless pit.
Michel Platini defends, him, an argument according to which doping would be useless in football because it is too technical a sport …
In short, dope for cyclists… and footballers: all saints! In a millimeter pass of 40 meters from Platini, a volley from Zidane or a series of dribbles from Messi, hard to say where the doping can be. Certainly. But there are also the mysteries of the last quarter of an hour. The “money time”. It is certain that, in order to be able to run for 90 minutes almost without stopping, EPO and growth hormone could prove to be decisive. This is also the reproach that we made to footballers of the 90s, in particular the Italians. And we must not forget that the trial of Juventus which led to prison in 2004.
Recovery doping;
It is also said that the “medical preparation” exists to avoid muscle glitches … The real border is there: Font Romeu, it is natural EPO, is it already doping such as super cold baths or even blood transfusions … Do we dope? do we repair? The specialists among themselves clash in debates that should not be listened to since it is the recipes that are discussed. And we must add to this some amazing animal experiments … State doping remains topical … We have talked about China, Russia but also Jamaica. Not in football …
There remains a real question: does it reasonably spoil the party whether there is doping or not? …
Do not get caught is the rule of a civilization which puts political correctness at the forefront of its principles. It is better to acquit a guilty person than to condemn an innocent person. And we can also say to ourselves that on behalf of those who do not take drugs, and who deserve our most absolute admiration, and our joys as children of adults, that we can tolerate others, cheaters. They know and it’s not the best place.
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