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李武军 发表于 2011-6-26 07:20

Olympic Cheats 奥运另一面

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[color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]It’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game’, or at least that is how the old English [b]adage[/b]goes, but for some sportsmen and women a [b]gallant performance[/b] is not enough. For those few [b]unscrupulous competitors[/b] it is a question of victory at all costs.
[p=21, 2, left]There have been [b]cheats[/b] at the Olympics since the earliest days of the modern games. In 1904 the runner Fred Lorz won the [b]marathon[/b] but was [b]disqualified[/b] when it [b]transpired[/b] his manager had driven him half the race in a car.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Other cheats have turned out to have [b]hidden qualities[/b] that helped them succeed. In Berlin 1936 Dora Ratjen came fourth in the [b]women’s high jump[/b] event. Nothing unusual about that you might say, but Dora was really Hermann and ‘she’ was actually a man![/p][p=21, 2, left]The same [b]ruse[/b] was used by a number of [b]gender-bending[/b] athletes until[b]compulsory sex-testing[/b] was introduced in 1964, although such tests have now been [b]abandoned[/b] as undignified and humiliating.[/p][p=21, 2, left]In more recent years cheating athletes and their trainers have resorted to [b]doping[/b] to improve sporting performance, and have provoked a crisis in sport with some of the biggest names in sport being disqualified,[b]stripped[/b] of their medals, and even jailed for using [b]illegal chemical substances[/b] such as [b]steroids[/b]. The 2004 Athens Olympics saw more than 20 athletes disqualified from the games after [b]testing positive[/b] for [b]banned[/b]substances.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Will we see even more [b]scandals[/b] in Beijing 2008? It seems inevitable since a number of athletes have already been banned or withdrawn from the games before they even began.[/p][p=21, 2, left]But some sports figures have called for even harder measures to be taken against drug cheats. Ten-time Olympic medal winner Carl Lewis has called for doping to become a crime throughout the world.[/p][p=21, 2, left]"I would change the law. If you test positive, why can't it be illegal?" said Lewis.[/p][/size][/font][/color]

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