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| October 23, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Irish Independent)

THE drug for which an erstwhile hero Dwain Chambers tested positive is a sexy, state-of-the-art designer number named tetrahydrogestrinone - otherwise known as THG, but let's stick to the longer version.

It's a big, ugly word - and that's right for the big, ugly lie it represents. How big? It knowsno bounds. It eats into every corner of the Olympic sport that has the concrete mixerswhirring against the clock in Athens and the London bidding committee flexing its punymuscles in anticipation of the Games of 2012 and, perhaps most dismaying of all, it doesso with an ever-declining power to shock.

So many lies, so many deceits have piled up…

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