Washington Post's Sally Jenkins says a lot of the right things that I've been thinking in this opinion piece:
Lance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA's hypocrisy
"Anyone who thinks an athlete has a fair shot in front of CAS should review the Alberto Contador case. Contador was found to have a minuscule, insignificant amount of clenbuterol in his urine during the 2010 Tour de France. After hearing 4,000 pages of testimony and debate, CAS acknowledged that the substance was too small to have been performance-enhancing and that its ingestion was almost certainly unintentional. Therefore he was guilty. He received a two-year ban. CAS’s rationale? “There is no reason to exonerate the athlete so the ban is two years,” one member of the panel said.
Would you want to go before that court?"
I hate, hate, HATE drugs in sports. But the system has got to improve.
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