I'm Sick Of Landis And All Lying Drug Cheats!

A few years ago I sat in a restaurant in a Lucerne hotel in Switzerland being convinced by the former American Olympic and world 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin that, despite a former doping sentence, he was the man to clean up track and field after so many drug cheats had left us to question every world sprint mark in the sport. He seemed a nice, genuine, lucid kind of guy and, as I left for the airport, I felt enthused by such healthy intention. So what happened next? In 2006 Gatlin was banned for a second doping offence and is currently serving a four-year ban which, in effect, has ended his career. Fast forward a couple of years. I'm now in southern California talking to the 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, the American, who lost this title and his career after banned substances were found in his samples. Again, Landis was an intelligent man who put together an intelligent argument for his innocence. Again, I liked the man as I drove back north to Los Angeles. Again, yesterday, he finally came clean and admitted his cheating. So what is the point of this story? The point is this: if anyone in sport has cheated and wants to hoodwink us by claiming innocence and lying, don't come near me. I'm sick of this, and I'm sick of you. You are lying cheats and you deserve every ban that comes your way!