TYROLEAN daily newspaper: editorial from the 7. March 2019 by Florian Madl – Manager may not, athletes

Innsbruck (OTS) – Austria boasts of the world’s most stringent anti-doping law. But instead of trusting in its efficacy, loudly demands long prison sentences. The criminalisation of the sport does not solve the Problem.
An anonymous survey, according to the dope companies up to ten per cent of the executives surveyed in a large economy. Clean looks different, but in the top floor of a group, no blood to be evaluated in the images, but the maximum growth curves. The last recorded call for prison sentences for athletes, the strange dope. This desire is not rooted in the same temporal sequence of a public debate? The excitement of the freeloaders, who are these social dynamics be aware of. Politicians and stakeholders who operate in the concrete case of Doping as a stage of their own rhetoric. The action – of said call for the freedom to mostly penalties. You saw it in the refugee debate, deportation drive, the emotional and, in many places, the humanitarian idea has been lost in a disgusting way.
Manager may obviously dope without sanction. But this is also true for cheaters in the Sport, a profession, defined by sweat and tears? Austria has by self-definition, the strictest anti-doping laws in the world (since 2007), and in it are enshrined met. Must be an example to the effectiveness of certain?
The top sports reflects society, the desire to be winners and losers in the consumer’s everyday life escape. But the truth behind the Happen to take any note of it. Stefan Matschiner, even for a long time Doping Manager, held ten years ago, 80 percent of the Field in the Tour de France for doping. And performance diagnostician can cut in the face of the physical requirements – 3700 km and an altitude of 30,000 meters in three weeks, with up to 40 km/h – only the shake of the head.
To condemn Doping morally, should not lead to the criminalising of the top sports. Fraud by financial benefits (prize money, sponsors) is sanction to beneficiaries of doping networks have to bear their responsibility. But to back athletes in the corner of the felon, the implications. Who would outlaw Lionel Messi, and for two years, because he prevented a Torraub the final victory of the enemy? It is, perhaps, the biggest shortcoming of a public debate: The proportionality is lost.

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