Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:37:57 07/30/01
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On July 30, 2001 at 17:43:57, Jay Rinde wrote:
>On July 30, 2001 at 17:10:59, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2001 at 16:37:24, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:
>>
>>>On July 29, 2001 at 15:32:30, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>Surely one of the most inspirational sports people ever.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.msnbc.com/news/606398.asp?cp1=1#BODY
>>>
>>>Surely one of the best doped users ever? You can't win the Tour de France
>>>without usage of illegal substances. It's been on wide display 2 years ago and
>>>nothing has been improved since. Everybody just stopped talking about it: The
>>>show must go on, that's just the american way of handling things. Too bad, but I
>>>don't ever believe again in any sportsman's honesty. Wherever it's big bucks,
>>>it's big drugs as well.
>>
>>Let's cheer the losers then. Because we have on good authority that you can't
>>win without cheating.
>>
>>There is the long line of cheaters. After all, we have solid assurances that
>>you cannot win without cheating, and EACH of the following has won more than
>>once:
>>
>>Andre "Acid" Leducq
>>Antonin "Mainliner" Magne
>>Bernard "Hash" Hinault
>>Bernard "Bennies" Thevenet
>>Eddy "Marijuana" Merckx
>>Fausto "Crack" Coppi
>>Firmin "PCP" Lambot
>>Gino "Heroin" Bartali
>>Greg "Opium" LeMond
>>Jacques "Angel Dust" Anquetil
>>Lance "Crystal Meth" Armstrong
>>Laurent "Shrooms" Fignon
>>Louision "Payote" Bobet
>>Lucien "Dweebidge" Petit-Breton
>>Miguel "Steroids" Indurain
>>Nicolas "Luteinizing Hormone" Frantz
>>Ottavio "liposome-encased hemoglobins" Sottecchia
>>Philippe "Ephedrine" Thijs
>>Sylvere "Testosterone" Maes
>>
>>Do we need any evidence for these assertions?
>>Of course not. We can try and convict them on this basis alone:
>>"I don't think they could do it without."
>
>I don't think he said anything about cheating. He just said they can't win
>without using drugs. This might be the case, I don't know. But if they all
>used drugs that might make things equal, depending on the drugs. I wonder if a
>GM used drugs it would help him beat computers. Or do computers use drugs?
>Life is so complicated!
Chess programmers do use drugs. You should see them in despair when there is no
coffee machine in the tournament hall.
I do not have this problem anyway. I take cafein by intravenous injection.
That's cleaner. ;)
Christophe
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