7.24 On Dopping

Rio Olympics are coming, but faster than that grand party is the scandalous doping issue that has hit the news headlines these days. One of the justifications I heard for exempting some wrong-doers really stunned me. An insider said: it was unfair to ban certain countries because the whole sports world was taking drugs. Some players were uncovered just because they were using relatively backward methods while techniques of others were more advanced.

I always put athletes on a pedestal, and I love to watch many kinds of sports games. Though it seems now many of the gold mentalist medalists are not worth the honor after all, and it is sad to see money and fame outstrip consciousness and justice. China used to be afflicted by doping problems too, its swimming team and the track & field team always cast a look of faced suspicion by from their rivals if the athletes did wellgot good grades. Fortunately, things are improving. I hope there will be no such scandals in the future. The number of medals is meaningless if you fail to command the same degree of respect from others.