tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post4792489659588104603..comments2024-01-04T14:13:56.397-05:00Comments on Mary Mazzio - 50 Eggs Films: Marion Jones SentencedMary Mazziohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914725879308556714noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-88030131963188509562008-02-10T09:19:00.000-05:002008-02-10T09:19:00.000-05:00Dawn-Excellent opinion. More on this in the next ...Dawn-<BR/><BR/>Excellent opinion. More on this in the next posting!Mary Mazziohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914725879308556714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-71440288133107375242008-02-03T16:08:00.000-05:002008-02-03T16:08:00.000-05:00Hey Mary-thanks for addressing this issue. My spo...Hey Mary-thanks for addressing this issue. My sport, cyling, has taken a huge hit because of doping. Sponsors can't leave the sport fast enough. I'm hopeful that WADA (World Antidoping Agency) is making progress. We have a big men's pro race in a couple weeks in California, and the promoters are spending $100,000on drug testing. I've been interviewing athletes who doped for about 5 years, and this is what I'm finding:<BR/><BR/>http://beta.velonews.com/article/12396<BR/><BR/>I'm hoping that if the athletes knew up front that they were truly making a deal with the devil it might be an additional deterrant.<BR/><BR/>Take care and thanks for the dialogue on doping in sport,<BR/><BR/>Dawn RichardsonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-82458152220746811552008-01-23T19:16:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:16:00.000-05:00Rick-Such an articulate opinion - and I completely...Rick-<BR/><BR/>Such an articulate opinion - and I completely agree with your last statement that if trainers and people who look the other way are put in jail, things may start to change. <BR/><BR/>This should also go for coaches, team owners, managers, as well.Mary Mazziohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914725879308556714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-40500601310501715112008-01-23T16:41:00.000-05:002008-01-23T16:41:00.000-05:00It does not matter if it is a woman or a woman of ...It does not matter if it is a woman or a woman of color or a white guy or a black guy or a person of any color. <BR/><BR/>The sentence was wrong for any person in this particular situation. <BR/><BR/>Well intentioned individuals skew and cloud the immediate issue being discussed by introducing sex, race discrimination and any number of other issues to help justify an outcome that they don't agree with.<BR/><BR/>Until we stop see color and begin looking at the deeds that people do, be them good or bad, we will never move forward.<BR/><BR/>Many of our professional athletes are nothing but thugs. Many are people that should be looked up to for their accomplishments and make good role models. You choose who you want to put on the pedestal. But if your choice proves to a bad one don't blame anybody or anything else for your disappointment with the outcome. <BR/><BR/>I would never propose that discrimination does not exist or attempt minimize the impact that it has on our society. But this case is the perfect example of just a flat out bad sentence that will not accomplish what the judge is attempting to do. Period. Race has nothing to do with it. <BR/><BR/>Ellen's suggestion of the apology and community service probably would have been more appropriate. <BR/><BR/>Start putting the doctors, drug manufacturers, trainers and parents that look the other way in jail and you may start to see things change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-3155338007139762008-01-19T15:05:00.000-05:002008-01-19T15:05:00.000-05:00Excellent comment, Ellen. Thanks for your thought...Excellent comment, Ellen. Thanks for your thoughtful contribution!Mary Mazziohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914725879308556714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6948369567620342963.post-1080068579899966172008-01-17T11:13:00.000-05:002008-01-17T11:13:00.000-05:00Well said Mary, and thank you for opening the dial...Well said Mary, and thank you for opening the dialog on the Marion Jones issue. Crimializing Marion Jones with the maximum sentence for lying about steroid use will not deter the rampant use of performance enhancing drugs at the professional athlete level, nor will it discourage young athletes from getting involved in with steroids as teenagers. Her crime is real, but her sentencing is a travesty and a missed opportunity. Better to take her forthright apology and make her a positive example to young people by sentencing her to community service in working with young athletes to help them see the long-term repercussions of using drugs to enhance performance. That would have a much better impact on the overall effort to stop the use of steroids. Judge Karas tries to "scare straight" the rest of the sports world, but to do so by incarcerating a female athlete of color with two young children at home reveals that hypocrisy and discrimination are alive and well in the steroid scandal.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443767056374291790noreply@blogger.com