How can that be an excuse? There is others that do it so it´s okay for me. It´s a explanation of doing anything to win at best. Everyone don´t do drugs but sure they are at a disadvantage and has to be better then the cheaters.
I find it strange that so many have sympathy with people taking short cuts :)
Anyway I don´t think it´s the right way to legalize substances like this. They are not health pills! Competition at this level is no health care anyway but that´s another story.
Also it cost money and knowledge to dope the best so it makes for an even more uneven playfield.
People want their winners surely that is why some really want to defend even the worst offenders like this I recon. It would be better if those that love
the sport more then anything could win though.
I think a lot watch sports for the competition. There is many world records in athletics that is most likely set by athelites on steroids that didn´t get caught. Still it´s great to see great results by todays
standards. Even if we get fewer world records then we should due to athletics after all being cleaner then they used to. It´s a healthy sign when you see cheaters being caught regularly as they will always be there.
But why make them the norm?