Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports
by Kavon Fiennes
Sooooo…..at the Ice-Fishing Championships the US Anti-Doping Agency was testing ice-fisher folk (competitors) for drugs. Yes you read correctly. This is a necessary hurdle to clear because Ice-Fishing may become a Winter Olympics event. Incredible. When will it end? My real question is, when will we simply allow all athletes the freedom to dope? We need to stop testing for drugs in sport.
Most elite athletes in order to compete and beat the best at the highest level are very likely ‘using’. I doubt this is the case in ice-fishing. However, let us not fool ourselves, Lance Armstrong (“the greatest American cyclist?”) was never caught red handed so to speak and neither was Marion Jones. They confessed after pressure was brought to bear. ‘Roids’ are widely used in modern baseball and athletics’ history has a less than clean image. Most recently legendary middle distance runner…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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