The reaction of society and the sport itself to Operation Greyhound shows the ethical change to the banned substances - The idea that the athlete is a puppet is answered
speaks of the system and also speaks of morality, ethics variable geometry of their sport, athletes, system. "Everyone, every athlete, every technician, every pattern has its ethical standards. It has never been the same for every person, every one comes from a culture, or at all times. Now it looks bad what was perfectly normal , for example, "he continues. "So the only reference of action is to mark the anti-doping rules. Is the line of what is right and what is wrong, so if you are not positive, does nothing wrong. And I think anti-doping rules is set for three reasons: to protect the health of the athlete, I do not think, as a business by the anti-doping agencies, which gives me equal, and that the bad guys win the good, that they can not alter the results, so do not leave affected the most and best work. This is the only justification that applies to me. "
athlete Perhaps this represents the old thinking, a philosophy which, they say, has been in the last century. At the time when the majority opinion of the cycling peloton, for example , reflects this corridor Australian anonymous: "How can you think of going on a hunt without a gun? Why go to the Tour de France with a hematocrit of 42 when you know that others go for 55? It's like saying, OK, go to duel OK Corral, and I will go armed with a water pistol. I know I'll die. "
Modern power, Giorgio Agamben teaches us is not only government but still need the glory, so all aspects of liturgical, ceremonial and aclamatorios maintain in new ways, their force even in modern times, in which capitalism, in its final form is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles.
not speak directly of sport-Olympic Games or World Cup, the biggest shows in States are now the glory "in his speech the Roman philosopher, but surely you will come to the hair for all those athletes who justify their choice personal - dope dope or not? - in the inevitability given the pressures of a system, a business , a sports organization, employers, principals behind the wheel, coaches, media-which demands success and glory in every moment and which they, the athletes are nothing but victims, puppets.
The objective of the invented high-performance centers in countries of old Europe in imitation democratic schools sport the East to organize the doping state is not other than to produce medals. Athletes, like beautiful car mechanics, are placed in the hands of exercise physiologists, the new priests, as mechanics are adjusted and regulated to maximize performance. By any means. Eufemiano Fuentes, a doctor trained in the arts of biological preparation in Czechoslovakia and East Germany in the 80's, and now involved in Operation Greyhound, would the current representatives of the priesthood.
This justifies, for example, falling Marta Domínguez, accused in the plot and the Guardia Civil who gives one of the bags of blood found to Eufemiano in 2006.
Surprisingly, or not, the popular support he enjoyed some of the English sports idols at the time accused of doping, remember when you wanted to remove Perico Delgado Tour de France, not so long ago, in 1988 - it has not enjoyed the Palencia, who has only had the sympathy of their neighbors.
"This is because the times are changing, have changed," says Mikel Zabala, a professor at the University of Granada has been launched in the cycling federation, the sport that, perhaps, next to the track, most identifies partnership with the doping, the program to win Prevention. "They have changed to hit police operation. It has changed what society thinks of doped and changed what they think the athletes themselves. But, ironically, given the popularity of cycling past problems, the squad is better than ever, but it comes to doping more than ever. "
" We have noticed the change, "says the athlete, anonymous, who denies his past, the past." It has been noticed especially in Europe, young athletes are more critical of the doping , young another culture, another base. "
To Zabala, who also teaches the subject of ethics to future managers cyclists," has been more than a saboteur at the wheel "(team managers) but now it works "in the right line." And it has also changed the attitude of the sponsors, perhaps for fear of bad image, have begun to worry about the image and no longer look the other way, as before, and agree that we must recalculate the physician's role in the team, "says Zabala." And I do fill out questionnaires to candidates for director and as I see them talk openly spoken and doping in a different way. "
" The message that legitimized doping, handed down from father to son, from one another, was that he did not was stupid. That was the speech. Now they are increasingly critical, "says Zabala, who misses, however," more involvement in the professional peloton. "Some, such as Joseba Beloki, who wants to look ahead, but without fear of looking back, to assume the errors." Perhaps they should learn
other athletes from the reaction of most athletes to Operation Greyhound, clapping in a manifesto to the Guardia Civil and asking that the guilty are punished. It is the beginning of the implementation of punishment for social exclusion. The clean headlocked were until now, silent for the law of silence imposed by the cheaters. "And they're right athletes," says Zabala. "Social exclusion is perhaps the worst punishment an athlete can receive. That yours will look bad, do not accept it, is worse even than a suspension."
