Considering the company she will be running with, I hope it is only confidence...

Let us know what YOU think.

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2000

Answers

I think its confidence. She believe she can win and says so. So far, her "walk" has matched her talk; unlike the the men's track stars! There was lots of huffing and puffing and blowing smoke between two very talented individuals; neither one could even qualify!

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2000

She is apparenly another example of "success though chemistry". How many will be named as the US finds out its athletic success is based on steroids?

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000

Poor anti-american, GREEN is not your color! What country are YOU from? Every American that wins is automatically "on drugs" in your book, aren't they? LOL! If you can't stand the heat, GET OUT OF THE OLYMPICS!!!

Try saying that about the "magnificent seven"! Tell that young waif of a girl who vaulted WITH A BROKEN LEG that she is a "doper"...it must make you feel like a REAL man, Ypro!

(I have a few special explitives for you, but I promised to behave!)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Poor "Proud" continuing to blindly support cheaters and liars: Lawyers threaten to reveal names
Number of U.S. athletes who tested positive
described as 'significant' by former official

GERARD WRIGHT
Special to The Globe and Mail
Saturday, July 22, 2000

Denver -- Lawyers representing a former United States Olympic Committee drug control expert have said they will subpoena Carl Lewis's manager to substantiate their case alleging widespread use of performance-enhancing substances among Olympic athletes.

In a suit lodged with the U.S. District Court in Denver earlier this week, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the USOC's drug control administration, claims that American athletes who had previously tested positive during Olympic selection events had escaped sanction and gone on to win Olympic medals.

In a news conference yesterday, Exum described the number of these athletes as "significant" but would not identify them by name.

"I can tell you, there are names. I can tell you, there is proof," Exum said. He then referred to a newspaper article published yesterday that quoted Joe Douglas, the manager of Carl Lewis, winner of nine Olympic gold medals, as saying he knew of "at least six people" who had escaped sanction and won Olympic medals.

After Exum was asked if he would seek to have Douglas subpoenaed in support of his case, one of his lawyers, John McKendree, replied "yes." It appears likely the American Olympians will also find themselves involved in the case.

"I don't think it's premature to say that prior to the commencement of the lawsuit, athletes will be interviewed," McKendree said.

Exum's lawsuit makes eight charges against the USOC, including racial discrimination, wrongful termination and misrepresentation. Attempts by the USOC and lawyers acting for Exum to reach a settlement in the matter late last year were unsuccessful, both sides said.

In a 70-minute news conference in Denver yesterday, Exum described the sanctioning mechanism for athletes who had tested positive as "a sham process," the knowledge of which "went all the way up to the top" of the USOC.

He said there was "a distinct possibility" that U.S. athletes who had tested positive but escaped sanction would be competing at the Sydney Olympics.

Exum claimed he had been asked three times to help circumvent drug tests, the most recent occasion being two years ago. While not specific, he said one of those requests required the injection of adenosene triphosphate (ATP), a substance which is not banned by the International Olympic Committee, but which has an effect on the body similar to creatine, the controversial muscle-building amino acid.

He said there appeared to have been unsupervised access to a "pharmacopia" within the Sports Medicine Division at the USOC's Olympic Training Complex. Exum said he had seen and been told of the existence of banned substances, including stimulants and painkillers. He said it appeared an athletic trainer or trainers had access to the medication.

The USOC yesterday denied all of Exum's allegations, along with those made by one of his predecessors, Dr Robert Voy, who resigned his position in June, 1989, and wrote a book alleging widespread abuses of performance-enhancing drugs, sanctioned by the USOC.

"So far, the people making these allegations have not provided us with a single fact," said USOC director of sports resources, Scott Blackmun.

The chairman of the USOC sports medicine facility, Dr. David Joyner, said access to medication at the training complex was strictly limited. Joyner said the painkillers and stimulants were used for the treatment of athlete injury or illness after competition, or for USOC staff travelling with its member teams.

A USOC lawyer, Richard Young, investigated Exum's claims last year. He said that, despite the absence of some data, he could find no improprieties. Young said some of the positive drug samples that may have come to Exum's attention could have been for ephidrine, regarded as a minor doping offence.

Exum, who holds degrees in psychiatry and medicine, as well as an MBA, took his position with the USOC in 1991. He said he was warned about his new employer at that time.

"My introduction to it in 1991, I was told by [Casey Wade, a member of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport,] the world perception was that the USOC does not run a doping-control program, they run a controlled-doping program.

"I still believe the rest of the world looks at the USOC drug-testing program as a fox-guarding-the-hen-house mentality," Exum said.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

No, not as blinded as you y2kpro. There are a number of athletes that have been barred from competing, or had their medals stripped. too bad for them. I liked this line in your anti-american JELOUSY article though....""So far, the people making these allegations have not provided us with a single fact," said USOC director of sports resources, Scott Blackmun."

heh heh heh....NOT A SINGLE FACT.

America is gonna kick @ss this Oly, just you wait and see!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Typical fellow American. Despite the fact that the person making the allegation is the former head doper of the US - the flag wavers don't care.

They don't care that some of our atheletes are cheats and liars.

They don't care they they have apparently won in the past by covering up drug use.

Stories like this make me ashamed to be an American. You? I guess as long as we win and don't get caught cheating, that's enough.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

You are DENSE aren't you pro! for your re-reading:

There are a number of athletes that have been barred from competing, or had their medals stripped. too bad for them.

I KNOW you still won't "GI", but what the hey.

Now...run off and GET A LIFE, little one.....

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

You're not the smartest ex-sysop around - are you?

I quote:

""I can tell you, there are names. I can tell you, there is proof," Exum said. He then referred to a newspaper article published yesterday that quoted Joe Douglas, the manager of Carl Lewis, winner of nine Olympic gold medals, as saying he knew of "at least six people" who had escaped sanction and won Olympic medals."

You support these cheats and liars? I guess seeing you were a former Tinfoil, I shouldn't be surprised.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

One last final time

"So far, the people making these allegations have not provided us with a single fact," said USOC director of sports resources, Scott Blackmun.

Why not write those who make these alegations and get them to show their facts?

I thought you of all people would recognise the tactic used in this article, pro. It was the same one the tinfoilers used during y2k "things are going to be BAD, REALLY BAD, I heard so from an anonymous internet source!!!" Funny that we should be so close to our estimates of y2k (I thought 3 or less on the scale), yet miles apart on this. Why can't you see that you have become the very thing you hate?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

These allegations have been around for a long time - like the East Germans, everyone in sports has suspecte the US of being cheats. The difference now is the guy making the allegation was the chief US doper.

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000