by Moralspain » Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:34
Jan Ullrich, the only German winner of the Tour de France, has admitted to doping for the first time, with the help of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes who ran a large-scale doping network.
"Yes, I had access to treatment from Fuentes," the 1997 winner of the Tour de France told the Focus weekly in its edition to appear on Monday.
"At that time, nearly everyone was using doping substances and I used nothing that the others were not using."
"In my view you can only call it cheating on my part when it is clear that I have gained an unfair advantage," he argued.
"That was not the case. All I wanted was everyone to have the same chances of winning."
Please guys when we have to realize that everyone uses "doping" substances?, if i was a tennis player (it's an example) and i knew my rivals are taking doping substances i would do the same, otherwise it would be a non sense to compete against them.
I'm against doping but we need to clarify what we want. We want guys playing 6 hours tennis matches?, guys riding 3.200 km in 21 stages?, guys running under 10 seconds?, swimming like dolphins?, if we want all that we need to allow them to take "something", you don't get all that by eating bananas.
I'm a sportsman and...playing 5 hours tennis at THAT intensity some pros do is barely....impossible, not gonna talk about cycling, swimming and athletics because it's well proved everyone takes something in those sports, everyone that wants be the THE BEST of course. I can probably ride 250 km with my bike but not at the speed the greatest ride and climbing mountains like the best guys do.
I don't wanna be hypocrite, we want all that spectacle? yes? so allow them to take all those things, we want clean sports? ok, perfect, great, but please don't ask for the same results.
Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.
