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

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

have you read Andre Agassi's autobiography? It's very enlightening, if not exactly truthful.

It wasn't so many years ago that there was a player failed the drug test and claimed that the person he'd been kissing had laced their lipstick with cocaine.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Agassi was confirmed to be a drugs cheat, wasn't he?

Yeah, I remember the lipstick...

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

He admittted to having taken something, but he was 'pardoned' and continued to play. To be fair, the amount of pain he was in, not surprising at all. Oh...and I love Andre so be careful what you say. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suspect things have got much worse since Agassi's heyday.