By the way:
A careful look at Yegorva's achievement last year will demonstarte that her
progress was less enormous than many an athlete in the past, who still bask
in glory - Florence Griffith-Joyner a988 amazing breakthrough first and
foremost, but not only her
The positive EPO examination for Yegorova in Paris is not contetsed. What I
and others (including a prominent figure in world athletics such as
Jonathan Edwards) are concerned with is that she is singled out and
demonized among , most likely, a non-negligible number of athletes. We have
yet to see or read such organized protest against Merlene Ottey who was
acquitted on a mild technicality, or Linford Christie who escaped in his
skeen teeth from disqualification in Seoul 1988 ( among vote majority,
wrote Sebastian Coe) and who, after being robbed of a bronze medal in the
1991 world champs in Tokyo [Japanese starters permitting Denis Mitchel to
run on, despite an obvious steal) , improved no less "enormously" then
Yegorova and eventually was disqualified last year.
Is Ben Johnson a "mediocre athlete boosted by drug use" and Christie one of
Britain's darling and greatest athletes?
A tough question, I admit.
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