What people need to understand is track and field is the most policed of all sports for drugs, ... Let's go and test baseball. Let's test football. You already got the designer steroid THG test on all these other sports -- and you're talking about one team the Oakland Raiders having four athletes. We may have only five or six in our whole federation. Is that fair to say how widespread it is in track and field It is not as big as it is in other sports. We're just policed more because we are true sport.
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I have concluded that this is appropriate for a number of reasons related specifically to THG. These include uncertainty at this time as to whether suspensions based on pre-October 6 tests could be imposed during the 2003 season with the requisite competitive fairness for all 32 teams.
I took human growth hormone for a brief period and I definitely didn't receive what I got out of THG.
If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport, ... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society. To think it is going to stop completely would be foolish and unrealistic. It is never going to happen. Just like with criminals in society, you are always going to have people who are raised with poor morals or who don't feel confident in their ability to go out and be successful without cheating someone else.