Was Martinez not on Ped's for Murray fight?

I said before the fight he would be affected by his knee surgery and I was right.

His style is reliant on his movement. At his age its hard to recover from injuries to the knees.

 

Adult pro athletes can do what the **** they want as far as I care, what bothers me is kids and teenagers seeing that this is an accepted norm. Kids from the many dirt poor countries around the world being encouraged or even forced to use PEDs as a potential ticket out of grinding poverty for a whole family. You think they give a **** about commisions in dirt floor favela gyms? ****, needles are shared even in UK PED circles where they're easy to get hold of...

Do you have kids? Would you like your kids or cousin or Kid brother to take up a sport, knowing they'll basically be expected to start banging up PEDs if they want to progress beyond a certain level.

Listen I'm not talking so much about the successful pro-athletes (or lower level,Western athletes) who can afford to test what they're taking, access professional advice,healthcare and facilities,
I'm talking about the aspirational kids and young adults around the world who admire and look up to them or the lifestyle.

As I said before though I'm absolutely in favour of education, regulation and monitoring of PED use rather than criminalisation, (though perhaps criminalising procurement and supply) but condoning their use at the highest level is only going to encourage more, and more dangerous use.

I think I said in another post that while monitoring the whole sport is impossible, EVERY title license should be issued of condition of mandatory (and frequent) random checking. That way even if you can get close to the top, it'd send the message that reaching the top on the back of PEDs ain't OK.

Look, I take the point, and there's also a freedom of choice vs good of the whole issue, but to draw a parallel, a pop star could do as many drugs as he wants for all I care, but if he/she starts telling their teenage fans that the only way to be like them is to start digging heroin then I'd want them banging up. I think perhaps we're just looking at the issue from a different perspective, cos I also absolutely agree with the kind of harm reduction policies you suggest, just can't accept what amounts to an active endorsement of PEDs.