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Not so, says Craig Masback, chief executive officer of USA Track and Field, the governing body in the U.S. for a sport with a druggie reputation. He insists these Games will be, by and large, clean: "The Olympics are the most tested sports movement in the world. I believe the...
It's not news that any athlete carefully monitoring his intake could take banned substances and still pass Olympic tests. We now know that by 1978 East German athletes in every sport except sailing were being given anabolic steroids. Yet in 1976 and 1980 not one East German tested positive...
And what's the reason for hope, in a world where indefensible decisions are commonplace? "The reason is, things have to change, or we're going under," says Shorter. "The Olympics will be a freak show."
Two recently created agencies, one of which is his own, may be able to effect change, Shorter says. The other is the World Anti-Doping Agency, and it is currently conducting 2,500 pre-Sydney, out-of-competition tests, the only kind with any reasonable chance of catching a cheat...
These Olympics, like those that preceded them, are conducted in the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship--at least until the competition starts. Everything was a grudge match in the cold war days, when, for the U.S., winning against the Russians and their vassals was a patriotic duty. Now it...