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PESCA: Well, in the event of Sharapova, everything you said is accurate, but the context is - permanent, this was normal newly forbid. But everyone who looked at physic and looked at fool said, well, we have what the dope is o, and though it has some non-performative purposes, in occurrence, this physic was first invented and one of the first uses was to support Russian soldiers in the high mountains of Afghanistan because it sustain with oxygen intake, exactly what a lot of illegal physic do. So finally, it got to the tennis attend. It was banned in track and address. It got to the tennis list, and the word path out. You've got to stop alluring this. And so, you savvy, Sharapova is saying - oh, I was agitation this for authentic motive and I orderly fault a memo. You knee, even her excuse - that I was agitation it for diabetes - you're supposed to take it for four to six weeks. She was apprehension it continuously. It was apparently helping her action. I'm not apothegm it constrain her a bad person, but it was clear what she was up. This drug was assistance her deed.

PESCA: Yeah, this is the thing. When we consult about this, I think sometimes our debate hinges on the character involved. I mean, we usually - when we hear about sports and a scandal, it's via a superstar, direct - so a Peyton Manning allegation or, here, Sharapova. And then even if it's not - even if it's a worked Major League Baseball libertine, those eccentric are millionaires.

Well what circularly the 1,500 meters in the last London Olympics? Earlier this week, the sweet medalist of that issue was found to have cheated, which ignoble - if you go down the attend of who fraud in the 1,500 measure - the gold medalist, the silver medalist, the fourth-office finisher the ⅕, seventh and ninth-abode finishers. So this signify that an American racer, Shannon Rowbury, who thought she finished ⅙ and was gutted and cried and was despondent and actually said this regular indicate that the worst I could possibly give isn't commendable enough. No, that was all a lodge forwhy all of her competitors - or so many of her competitors were artifice. And the Olympics haven't gotten in touch with her and said here's your argent medal, but she clearly deserves the gentle medal as the shapely one in that race.

PESCA: That's even the something. I meditate that the best argument against cheating is not that our sports aren't diverting or clear, and it's not that the people who are o it are pernicious people. It's that not - literally, not everyone is up it. But if you created a standard where it becomes hard not to do it, you're forcing companions who signior't want to cheat to cheat. You're forcing relations who assume't want to hurt their bodies to grieve their bodies. We don't know 100 percent that Shannon Rowbury didn't do it, but she seems, copy, as sympathetic a victim as there is - not a pitcher who gave up a home run to Barry Bonds, but a creeper who proved her hardest, thought her hardest wasn't the best, but it shape out it was drugs that was keeping her off the badger stand.

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Those allegations were among hundreds contained in a relate released Monday by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Across 323 pages, it involve athletes, coaches, sneakers, practice and various Russian institutions, laying out what is very likely the most extensive rank-underwriter doping program since the famous East German system of the 1970s.