[nickcarraway]

Sorry, Lance, let someone with more credibility get behind it.

[Mr. K]

Remember the good-old-days when people who disgraced themselves and shamed their whole family slinked away out of sight somewhere and saved us the embarrassment of having to deal with them?

[Paradox]

He may still be the greatest of all time. I know for a fact, virtually ALL those competitors are doped up. So they are all more or less competing at a similar level.

[imardmd1]

Yes, but is this kind of doping, carefully tested in Olympic performance, and being deliberately predominant and prescribed in the honing of the military Russian fighters, such as the Spetznaz, to produce a soldier with powers beyond the diet and mental/physical conditioning of the best non-doped commandos? That is the question.

Or in our own troops when/if so-called psychotropic anti-anxiety drugs are prescribed to allay the naturally-occurring fear of/in combat makes the trooper unnaturally eager and brave?

This is the kind of concept exploited in the Hollywood-caricaturized action movie heroes.

[Dagnabitt]

Why is this foul, honor-free little man Armstrong still stinking up the public square?