[Roe]

Speaking to the BBC, the heavyweight said: "I know this is going to be controversial for people but I think they should just allow doping, period. Because, to me, it's like the gun law. Only the good guys are listening, so it leaves the good guys without the guns.

"So you just allow everybody. It's an issue of choice. I would never want to be doing anything to alter my body down the road anyway.

"Sports is what it is - it's entertainment. You go to the movies to be entertained. You watch sports and you ask to be entertained and we want our athletes to be the biggest and the baddest they can be - regardless of how level the playing field is.

"All of the money that we're using to catch cheats should be used for other things.

"You've got to leave it up to athletes. It's a person's choice, such as abortion and other things we don't agree with."

http://www1.skysports.com/boxing/news/12183/8513489

:think

 

[Thomas!!]

Tony Thompson... No

 

[Bryn]

It kind of makes sense in theory, to level the playing field, but we'd just end up with boxers trying to be the most 'roided up and not spending time on actually boxing, a bit like how training to make weight is these days.

I don't think allowing doping would have any benefit to the sport at all.

 

[Back to Bill]

That's absurd, why not enforce a 10 year prison sentence for anyone caught doping, that will make the cheating fucks think twice.

 

[Ilesey]

He is hazel nuts. What a peculiar theory on doping he has.

 

[Back to Bill]

I now hope Price sparks him, by Thompsons theory if someone was to cheat on their 11+ exam then for the sake of fairness everybody should cheat.

 

[Shocked Quartz]

It's a bloody stupid suggestion. The health implications both long and short term would be a disaster.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Silly tbg

 

[Wallet]

 

[Danny]

Wlad knocked all the sense out of him by the looks of things.

 

[Back to Bill]

How nice to see a thread about this survive on a forum.

 

[Bryn]

How nice to see a thread about this survive on a forum.

:think

 

[Back to Bill]

:think

:yep

 

[Roe]

How nice to see a thread about this survive on a forum.

Threads always survive on this forum :deal

Well except for one :lol:

 

[Back to Bill]

Threads always survive on this forum :deal

Well except for one :lol:

Its a refreshing change, mind you this is a much more sensible forum. :good

 

[Havik]

People would be surprised how little would change in boxing if all PEDs were taken off the banned substance list tomorrow, as the drug testing that's currently done in the sport is almost completely useless. Only the use of diuretics, and possibly the use of certain stimulants or painkillers during the bout, are effectively tested for. Pretty much anything else is fair game.

Because in boxing, like in most sports, drug testing is mainly a PR exercise. The fact that very occasionally a complete imbecile manages to get caught is an undesired side effect of the testing, if anything.

What Thompson proposes would purely get rid of the hypocrisy.

Not that I think that that would necessarily be a good thing.

 

[Lunny]

No, nonono, no.

I don't want sports to be a freak show of how roided up people can get. I want to see who's the best through training the hardest, being naturally gifted, best skills etc. Not who's taken the best drugs..

Then watch them all die aged 45 because they've fucked their bodies up.

Fuuuuuuuuck thaaaaaaaaat.

 

[Lunny]

People would be surprised how little would change in boxing if all PEDs were taken off the banned substance list tomorrow, as the drug testing that's currently done in the sport is almost completely useless. Only the use of diuretics, and possibly the use of certain stimulants or painkillers during the bout, are effectively tested for. Pretty much anything else is fair game.

Because in boxing, like in most sports, drug testing is mainly a PR exercise. The fact that very occasionally a complete imbecile manages to get caught is an undesired side effect of the testing, if anything.

What Thompson proposes would purely get rid of the hypocrisy.

Not that I think that that would necessarily be a good thing.

But surely the PED industry would grow massively bringing in fuckloads of new drugs if it was all legal?

Drugs companies would become a huge part of the game. You'd probably see what roids they're taking on the 'tale of the tape'. Naaahhhhhhh

 

[EnglishWay]

Price will knock some sense into him.

 

[JamieC]

No, nonono, no.

I don't want sports to be a freak show of how roided up people can get. I want to see who's the best through training the hardest, being naturally gifted, best skills etc. Not who's taken the best drugs..

Then watch them all die aged 45 because they've fucked their bodies up.

Fuuuuuuuuck thaaaaaaaaat.

:deal