Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentioned before, I am an advocate of ridding the sport of performance-enhancing drugs and I do not personally bow before the bong, but the fact that the IOC uses a valid concern about performance-enhancing drugs to dictate what lifestyles its athletes can lead is simply appalling...
...noble ambition to "clean up the sport," and if anyone were going to be kicked out for misconduct, Gary Hall, Jr. would be one of my first picks. I was not overjoyed at his suspension for failing a drug test, however, because he tested positive for a non-performance enhancing substance...
...Olympic gold medallist in the sprint freestyle relays may not be the image the sport (or me personally) would like to put forward to the public, but there must be another way to make the sport more public-friendly than suspending swimmers for toking...
There certainly needs to be a limiting of performance-enhancing drug use within the sport. The IOC has absolutely no business, though, preaching moral standards to its athletes...
Marijuana usage, in which I personally do not partake, is banned solely because of the IOC's perception that it creates moral decay within the sport. Does it in any way act as a performance-enhancing agent? Nope! All studies have concluded that it most certainly does...