Life is not fair!

I am sad to hear the plight of former Olympic star Marion Jones who is sentenced to jail for lying about her use of performance enhancing drugs. She had to give back all the five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and she is flat broke. The ironic part is that many of the super athletes of her generation and before, had used similar drugs, and nobody caught them. They got fame and fortune, and a place in the history books. Sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner (‘Flo Jo’) is a classic example. She was so muscular that you could see bulging muscles in places you never thought one could have! She shattered the women’s world records for 100 meters and 200 meters in 1988, and nobody has ever come close to breaking them since. It was easier in those days to avoid drug detention because the tests were not that sophisticated, and one could ‘prepare’ to pass the tests. Does anyone remember the frighteningly muscular Chinese women swimmers in the 1988 Olympics? (‘Flo’ retired at her peak, four months after random tests were announced!). Jones also would have escaped detection if not for an internal fight between her trainer and drug provider, which ended up one snitching on the other. She was simply unlucky to be caught in the middle. The sad part is that Marion Jones was such a gifted athlete that she really did not need this ‘extra help’ to win medals. She probably took it as an 'insurance' to get all the five medals in the Olympics. Look where she is now. Life is not fair.