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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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"and if you're that good at running fast, why should you have to take steroids?"
Listening to his interviews on the subject he sounds reasonably pragmatic about it. He asserts that the best runner in the world has to hope someone on drugs either has an off day or gets caught - it makes that big a difference.

So when you're a top class athlete you've quite probably got a "must win, no matter the cost" attitude and will therefore possibly consider steroids as a measured risk. I'd be interested to know if other countries would enforce a life-time ban for their best sprinters in the same situation.

For steroid abuse it's black and white, we can clearly see it's cheating. Look at something a little more blurry though like footballers diving e.g. the Italians' last minute penalty against Australia in the 2006 World Cup. Diving is a concious decision to cheat but top class footballers still do it because to them it's more important to win than be the best.
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