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No actually it is about money. The reason a kids pump steriods at 13 is so
they can be 320 pounds by 18 and get a scolarship at UF or Miama University
or maybe some second tier college like University of Tennessee is so they
can get into the NFL and makes a lot of money. There is a kid in Ohio, don't
remember his name maybe someone from Ohio can, who has put his high school
( and himself ) on the map by being a basketball phenom. He's skipping college
and going directly to the NBA - money talks. 

When the Olympics went profession, going to the Olympics - especially in
a country like the US or Russia meant big bucks. The Olympics is about money
except in the very minor sports like hurling. Make no mistake these people
are professional athletics and they will do anything to win. Why else does
did the IOC have to step up to the most advanced drug testing program in
athletics today?

So independent if it is a kid in highschool wanting to go to the NFL, a kid
wanting to go to the NBA or a kid wanting to go to the Olympics it's all
the same - money talks.

Truman

Heidi Smith wrote:
> > And while I cannot say for sure about high school basketball
> > in Heidi's neck of the woods, I can definitely say that what
> > she says isn't true of high school football in my neck of
> > the woods....and as a result here in Southern California
> > teen age boys are using dog steroids from Mexico because, to
> > quote a high school football coach whose brother (or maybe
> > it is his brother in law) is a friend of mine, "No, high
> > school football isn't just a game any more."
> >   
>
> WHAA-AT, kat, you mean that there are good ol' red-blooded Amurcun sports
> where folks cheat?  And that playing football in the Olympics isn't what
> causes it??  Surely you jest!
>
> You make my point.  It isn't the Olympics or international competition at
> the root of all evil.  It is how we conduct ourselves in our own countries
> in any given sport.  And what goes on at the Olympics neither elevates nor
> ruins the sport at home--we do that ourselves.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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