Mood: Good.
Music: About Her, Malcolm McLaren
Game: A Tale In The Desert 3, World of Warcraft (Barely), Uno?
Book: God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
Watching: Nothing yet.
Weather: 68, a bit grey.
I'm not going to talk about the World Cup...but I will say I'm really enjoying it overall.
What I AM going to vent on is this bozo, Dick Pound.
Aside from his obviously sad name, this guy is "the head of the World Anti-Doping agency."
The same guy who regularly accuses every athlete ever to play a professional sport as a doper.
A few months ago, an independent investigator hired by the World Anti-Doping agency found that there was no evidence that Lance Armstrong was doping in 1999. Pound repeatedly accused Armstrong of doping, taking his cues from a pissed off French sports media. When the independent study came back saying that there was no evidence of doping, but there WAS evidence of tampering and a complete breakdown in chain of evidence, Pound called the study flawed and insisted that Armstrong was doping.
Now, he's re-emphasizing the fact that a full third of all NHL players are doping.
It'd be stupid to think that -some- professional hockey players aren't doping in some form or fashion...but let's be completely clear about this: it's HIS agency that cleared every player in the Olympics. He should bloody well know that there's literally hundreds of pro players who don't even take sinus medicine.
My analysis of this? Dick Pound is a fucking media hog who needs to see himself on television and create controversy just so he can hear himself talk.
The media, fuelled by the obvious travesty that baseball has become, is looking for the next arena to pound into the ground. Of course, people have been ignoring football for decades, but we won't go there.
I loathe that guy.
Posted by Glenn at June 14, 2006 08:49 AM