I’m sorry, but I just had to post this article on drug testing for the winter Olympics. The centerpiece of the article is Bode Miller, world champion in the downhill ski category. He’s against a zero tolerance policy on performance enhancing drugs because EPO is not particularly harmful and can save a skier’s life.

“… in our sport [there] would be pretty minimal health risks and it would actually make it safer for the athletes, because you’d have less chance of making a mistake at the bottom and killing yourself. You have to make four or five decisions every second in skiing, every turn…And when your brain starts to slow down, as if you’re holding your breath for two minutes, it makes it damn hard to make those decisions.”

Sounds reasonable, but the author of the article laughs at Miller’s “sense of entitlement.” Here’s something to laugh at: a quote from the last paragraph of his stunning editorial:

Like their urine, their testimony is often tainted.

The fight must go on.

Fight on urine warrior! Fight on!

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