ESPN's Pat Forde

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Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Perhaps it is irresponsible...but it is legitimate to do so. Very few athletes that have used performance enhancers come out and say they did and in fact most vehemently deny it. Torres saying she is clean and testing clean simply is that. I hope she's clean. However, a 41 year old swimming her best times in her life when she was world class over 20 years ago, just doesn't seem right. I don't think it is a huge problem for Forde to bring that up. Bonds broke the HR record simply through hard work if you ask him...and to a large extent, Bonds is right. But not completely.

Coach Pants insinuating that swimming is a clean sport is hilarious. Gary Hall has been involved in competetive swimming for a long time also. Ask him if he thinks anyone has used in the sport.

Okay, I agree with you that drugs are probably rampant in swimming. But lets make this more personal...

Imagine if she were your wife and the mother of your child. You see her bust her ass for how many hours a day.

Or how about she is your daughter?

Or how about if you were her?

And she has NEVER been found to do anything wrong. She is merely a victim of her own success and the tragic failings of others in the sportsworld in general.

I think creating stories out of thin air is incredibly unfair. Is it possible that she is a genetic freak? maybe?

I think authors like this prey upon the doubts we have as a society. Its fine to be skeptical but couldnt he have waited until there was some EVIDENCE before he went and wrote about it?

So now this woman's character is attacked. Are we going to start questioing her feminity next? Is that going to be further "proof" of her drug use or rather jusification to question whether she is on the juice or not? Because of the size of her head?