[quote]Professor X wrote:
Bill Roberts wrote:
Perhaps he lost all of his blood from being “continuosly drug tested.”
Seriously, the guy used to buy ads in the muscle magazines touting that he was “continuously drug tested.”
It was kind of weird.
If he didn’t use drugs, why the hell was he spending the money for all these tests? Didn’t he already know he was drug free (if he was)?
Were the continuous tests to impress other people? But who had any interest in the tests? I really don’t think anyone gave a flip, actually.
I always had the impression that it was snake-oil-salesman type gimmick.
You can’t be serious. It is 2008, almost 2009. This guy hasn’t competed since the early 90’s and people are still calling him out on it. I would say some gave and still give “a flip”. What is strange about getting drug tested when he claimed openly that he was drug free?
As far as whether he is or not, he was literally huge in high school. His dad had the exact same jaw structure and basic build in old family photos. You can’t deny genetics and hard work.[/quote]
You don’t think it’s strange to pay to be “continuously drug tested” when no one is requiring it of you, AND furthmore to pay for huge numbers of magazine ads announcing the fact?
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” There’s a reason for the saying. A whole lot of times when people just go way, way, WAY overboard in announcing their innocence far and wide, to hill and dale, with megaphone and sound truck and everything else – and especially when few even care about the subject and there is no prosecution or anything going on – it ain’t because they’re innocent. Oh, maybe some tiny percent are and are just compulsive. But most of the time this sort of behavior is a true tip-off.
As for the fact that it’s 2008 and this was a while back, what can I say, for some things I have a good memory and his doing the above struck me as really weird at the time. And the speculation that perhaps what happened to him was that he lost all of his blood from his “continuous” testing needed explanation, probably, for those not knowing of his vast number of purchased advertisements announcing that fact.
Lastly as for your saying, with respect to whether he was drug free, “You can’t deny genetics and hard work” I don’t get the point.
Surely you are not saying that drug users who are successful in bodybuilding DON’T have genetics and don’t work hard?
If you are not, then his having genetics and working hard says nothing about whether drug use occurred.
I wouldn’t have ever given 1/4 of one second of thought or care to whether the guy used drugs, if not for seeing his absurd ads month after month announcing his “continuous drug testing.” Man, what a way to live… “Gotta prove today I’m drug free! Can’t let a day go by, people might think I used since the last test! Gotta have a thick file with no time gaps, no sir! Continuous testing, that’s the only way, gotta be continuously documented!”
If he was drug free, he couldn’t have picked a better way, while denying it, to create the opposite impression from protesting too much.
I don’t think anyone in the history of bb’ing ever made so much noise over being drug-free as he did.
That doesn’t stand out in any way?
Besides all that, it was stupid. Any steroid user knowing what he was doing and arranging his own testing could easily have tests done that to most people would seem to show being natural, but in fact allow undetected use. What was the actual value of all those tests he had done towards proving anything? Absolutely flat zero.
And either he was dumb as a brick, which I bet he was not, or he knew that but went through the charade anyway, with absolutely no one and nothing driving him to it but himself.
It was just flat weird.
