Elyn and I are watching the TV coverage of the Tour de France, not so much because we are racing fans, but because the race goes through areas of France that we have walked or driven. We see scenery that is familiar every day and it is worth sticking with all the racing to see those scenes.
The Tour is again awash in controversy due to the number of riders who are doping. The TV commentators express dismay and surprise that riders continue to take performance enhancing drugs, but the bikers are strangely silent in my experience. I wonder how many of them just haven’t gotten caught and don’t feel comfortable coming out against those who do.
The temptation to do anything to give one superhuman ability is almost overwhelming and my guess is that few serious athletes are totally clean throughout their careers. Athletics have reached very near the upper limits that the human body is capable of and even slight advantage can bring huge rewards in publicity and wealth. How many of us, if placed in that position, could make the moral decision to not push our upper limit with a little help.
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