The Waaahhh!-nter Olympics (WAS Sarah Hughes - from my home town!)

[cindysphynx]

Kathyrn wrote:

> They didn't exactly "test positive" since that implies that a 
banned substance was found in their blood, they simply had higher 
than the legal limit of red blood cells in the test for which there 
may (or may not, I don't know but I'm giving them the benefit of the 
doubt here to a certain extent) be a perfectly natural explaination. 

I'm no doping expert, but I recently read a long article in the New 
Yorker about doping in cycling and other endurance sports.  The 
upshot is that many people think the doping standards give so much 
leeway and are so lax that if you are caught doping, it is definitely 
because you were doping.  In other words, when they set the doping 
standards, they already account for variation in physiology and 
cycles and all of those naturally-occurring issues.  So if it really 
is this athlete's blood and it was tested properly, then she's been 
busted.

Waaaahhhhh!

Oh, and my earlier remark about Sarah Hughes hanging up on the 
president is related to something she said in an interview.  In her 
endearing, bubbly 16-year-old way, she said something like, "They 
handed me a phone and I hung up, and I think it might have been a 
congressman."  

She probably hung up because it was Bush on the phone, but she 
couldn't hear him because he had a pretzel stuck in his throat.

NotTryingToGetPoliticalButCouldn'tResist!Cindy