Scales Drop From Eyes

[poliphilo]

So Sharapova has been drugging....

Call me naive but I'd never bothered to consider whether tennis was clean or not. I just sort of assumed it was. Silly me.

And now, having done my homework, I'm aware of all the rumours (and more than rumours) swirling around about the top players. How do the big stars manage to remain so dominant? Why do they perform so averagely on the circuit but so strongly at the slams? How do they manage to have both the bulk of heavyweights and the speed of lightweights?  Well...

I may not bother to watch Wimbledon this year...

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Even if they're not cheating, athletes save themselves for the competitions that really matter. It's part of my argument about how we can't be "excellent" all the time, which is what the education inspection system asks of teachers.

But regarding cheating, it's what happens when you put too much pressure on people to be excellent all the time and/or when big money becomes involved and there's too much pressure to win.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never been much of a sports fan- and I'm glad- because if I had been all this would have broken my heart.

[matrixmann]

Latter, I think, plays a big role in this.
If looking at how many sponsors you can find printed on each sports suit or on the outside of each tribune, you can find a million reasons for why things run as they run.
And this doesn't even include the bets on who wins and who wo loses.