Travis Tygart, General Counsel for United States Anti-Doping Agency, putting pressure on all sports, including cycling, to become clean sports. The USADA is best known for the doping charges against Floyd Landis this past year during the Tour De France. Travis Tygart said, "... I would like to see better cooperation between all entities and individuals interested in clean sport. If there is one thing we should all be able to agree on, it is that cheating through doping has no place in sports. The only way we are going to achieve the goal of clean sport is if ADAs, sport organizations, clean athletes and everyone else interested in the integrity of athletic competition work together in a concerted, constructive and efficient effort."
This is an example of public relations because the article was a press release that explained the United States Anti –Doping Agency is one of the good guys. Travis Tygart said, “I find that those individuals who claim anti-doping agencies (“ADAs”) are more interested in winning cases that finding the truth, are usually either defense attorneys who have a profit motive to make such claims or reporters looking to create a story and sell newspapers. Those claims are simply detached from reality. People with a true understanding of what USADA does, knows better.” The insightful public relations article is trying to help the cycling fans after the recent case with Floyd Landis understand that they are not here to make money, they are here to make the sport of cycling a safer, better sport. The cycling community is a hard community to infiltrate but infiltration is needed. People need to know that cheating does not make the races any better. Athletes need to know that the cycling community will not support cheaters once the facts of doping come out. Cyclists that have been caught doing illegal enhancements should be thrown out of the sport forever. Many cyclists tend to look the other way as the cheaters win. The United States Anti-Doping Agency will not be backing off and will make the sport of cycling a clean sport with the leadership of Travis Tygart.
This makes me proud and excited that others care about the sport of cycling and want to see it a clean sport again. Doping or enhancing drugs is cheating even if the person is not getting caught in the act. The United States Anti-Doping Agency is helping the sport of cycling catch the cheaters and this makes it to Cycling Andrew's “Honest Cyclist List.”
http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=10343
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So I suppose that you think it's OK to punish the innocent who are trying to proove that innocence because you think it makes cycling look better? Shame on you, of course we all want clean cycling. But you've left out an inportant component in your commentary, we want clean FAIR competition. That goes for the testers as well.
See also a comment we left on the prof's blog. This post missed a lot of the blog-related story.
TBV
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