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Poor Marion Jones, of course, is not charged with anything. But the case against her husband (he's not competing in these Olympics but has tested positive four times in recent months for nandrolone) cannot be enhancing her morale or concentration as she goes for five gold medals...
...turbocharging pharmaceuticals that so corrupt athletics now - all the potions to build up jocks with muscle mass and aggression and more red blood cells (and a bloated liver, maybe). One feels pained for Andreea Raducan, the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor? Was he trying to cure Andreea's sniffles, or to jazz up her performance...
...sadness of it. The Olympic ideal is inherently nostalgic, and seems, every four years, to be increasingly remote from the dream of a time when beautiful humans could perform godly feats for their own magnificent sake, without commercials, and without the benefit of sinister, alchemical prescriptions - pills that extract gold from stolid hulks...
...these Games, the casualties include several eastern European weightlifters and a young Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal...
...often the unfortunate or stupid. Some of the recent athletes caught were using "old-school" drugs like steroids that are easily detectable; if they had some more time or money they could find a doctor who knows how to manipulate results. In the case of the young Romanian gold-medallist gymnast, she was duped by her doctor, who had put some banned drugs (not even performance-enhancing) in her cold medicine. But, as IOC drug czar Prince Alexandre de Merode pointed out, rules are rules...