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The loud American complaints about Chinese cheating in the Olympics would sound better if the US athletics establshment had not been a sink of doped iniquity for decades, leading to horrors such as the "flo-jo" so-called world record, which is still on the books, and finally to the disgrace and humiliation of Marion Jones and her contemporaries. This will leave on any other nation the usual impression that Americans really think that their cheating is nobler than other people's cheating. And what about the time it took to make steroids illegal in baseball?

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

That's what I was saying. The Chinese may be cheating about the ages of the girl gymnasts, but the Americans are totally doping. Woo-hoo, cheating.

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

We may dope but we don't dope under age athletes.

* I thought steroids were illegal in baseball?

* Any abuse of steroids by baseball players (outside of whatever laws are broken doing so) should be a private matter 'tween Major League Baseball (tm) and the players. It's certainly not a matter for Congress to fret about.