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Athletes have lost their legal legs.
The question so far has been: Did they break the rules?
The next question is: Do those rules make sense?
Talking about Barry Bonds and Marion Jones. Talking about Tim Montgomery and Jason Giambi. Talking about all of those athletes whose names have been made public during investigations of possible illegal steroid use.
We know the rules. If you test positive for steroids, you're in trouble. Track and field bosses in the United States have an even more stringent standard. They can rule against you based on circumstantial evidence; they don't need to be convinced "beyond a reasonable doubt," but only to "comfortable satisfaction."
Here, Marvin Miller laughed out loud.
"'Comfortable'? To whom? The judges, eh? Oh, boy.... It's absolutely a terrible standard, especially when put together with the penalties they're talking about. Lifetime suspensions in some cases. The two just don't go together."
Marvin Miller is one of sports' wise men. He's now 87 years old. For 16 years, he was the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. His work changed baseball in so many positive ways that he should be in the game's Hall of Fame.
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