The International Olympic Committee (click here) claims it is "premature" to even consider cycling's future in the Games following the Lance Armstrong scandal.
The IOC member Dick Pound, a former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, claimed cycling might have to be dropped from the Olympics if Armstrong implicated the International Cycling Union (UCI) in a cover-up of his systematic doping....
Lance Armstrong is the era of the corporate take over. There was a time when Olympic athletes did not receive monies from anywhere to participate in the sports. It was considered the execution of the sport at the purest level. For decades there has been a move by corporations to seek to create icons for their products and services. That is not an amateur athlete.
Everything in the world is big business as if that is the only reason people are motivated to live a life. It is the worst set of values ever held. Commercial focus brings corruption. Lance Armstrong and his rivals are suppose to be amateur athletes. The best in the world. The question is given the extremes they were achieving in competition when were by going to start using replacement parts for joints operated by distant computer?
The USA has seen sport after sport dominated by corruption. There is far less moral content in sports today than ever before. When a star athlete is motivated by imagination of a woman struggling for her life there is something sincerely wrong with the value system 'of the expectations' of the people appreciating the sport. The fans have a problem, too.
Corruption happens and values change because everyone is 'on the take' at some point in the food chain. The IOC has to examine the impact of corruption on the sport of cycling and reset the expectations of competitors at the amateur level. Armstrong effected the records of the sport for nearly a decade. There is a lot to reset to allow those that follow to actually achieve a real statement about the capacity of the sport.
Mr. Te'o stated after having experienced the death of his grandmother and imaginary friend in the same day, "...there is a reason why I am at Notre Dame..." The implication is god has his hand on the life of Mr. Te'o and will have his hand on him no matter where he is playing football. Does it sound familiar? I don't begrudge Mr. Te'o his faith or his career, but, his 'iconic image' is drenched with Christian focus which has become a political football in the USA. The entire 'money ball' is a mess, disaster and highly manipulative as a power play throughout the spectrum of USA society. Even religion has become corrupt with wealth. Where does it stop?
The government investigation needs to look past the imaginary friend 'thing' and examine the potential it was a goal by a competitor. In other words, if Mr. Te'o were in a draft who would replace him in potential and/or money if he was defamed and removed as a guarantee commercial bet.
Everything in the world is big business as if that is the only reason people are motivated to live a life. It is the worst set of values ever held. Commercial focus brings corruption. Lance Armstrong and his rivals are suppose to be amateur athletes. The best in the world. The question is given the extremes they were achieving in competition when were by going to start using replacement parts for joints operated by distant computer?
The USA has seen sport after sport dominated by corruption. There is far less moral content in sports today than ever before. When a star athlete is motivated by imagination of a woman struggling for her life there is something sincerely wrong with the value system 'of the expectations' of the people appreciating the sport. The fans have a problem, too.
Corruption happens and values change because everyone is 'on the take' at some point in the food chain. The IOC has to examine the impact of corruption on the sport of cycling and reset the expectations of competitors at the amateur level. Armstrong effected the records of the sport for nearly a decade. There is a lot to reset to allow those that follow to actually achieve a real statement about the capacity of the sport.
Mr. Te'o stated after having experienced the death of his grandmother and imaginary friend in the same day, "...there is a reason why I am at Notre Dame..." The implication is god has his hand on the life of Mr. Te'o and will have his hand on him no matter where he is playing football. Does it sound familiar? I don't begrudge Mr. Te'o his faith or his career, but, his 'iconic image' is drenched with Christian focus which has become a political football in the USA. The entire 'money ball' is a mess, disaster and highly manipulative as a power play throughout the spectrum of USA society. Even religion has become corrupt with wealth. Where does it stop?
The government investigation needs to look past the imaginary friend 'thing' and examine the potential it was a goal by a competitor. In other words, if Mr. Te'o were in a draft who would replace him in potential and/or money if he was defamed and removed as a guarantee commercial bet.
