Cyclops Campaign

[MonsterStrength]

het is al een oude petitie, maar voor diegenen die nog steeds niet getekend hebben:

http://www.powerlifting.com/cyclops/index.cfm

het gaat erom powerlifting een olympische discipline te maken, dus belangrijk!!

alvast bedankt

[Samu]

Done... kan je nergens zien hoeveel mensen al ondertekend hebben?

[Deejay_Spike]

signed.

[MonsterStrength]

17872 momenteel al

[Samu]

Origineel gepost door Wakaera

17872 momenteel al

K dan

[frietbakker]

en wanneer gaan ze die aanbieden?

wel signed

[MonsterStrength]

normaal gingen ze tijdens de OS van dit jaar aangeboden worden :s

[Dr. D]

Zo, heb ook eens ondertekend

[MonsterStrength]

ziezo hoeren, iedereen die gestemd heeft kreeg karma van me

[Unregistered]

The Truly Elite Athlete

I heard today that Labraun James was approached by the Nike shoe corporation. Apparently Labraun at the ripe old age of 17 has the innate capability to slam dunk a basketball. Nike has offered this young man 25 million dollars to wear their sneakers while playing professional basketball.
It got me to thinking how disgusted I am with the state of professional sports and athletes of today. What makes this kid worth 25 million dollars? He can slam dunk a basketball. WOW. How many guys professional and amateur can slam dunk a basketball? A few thousand world wide? How many can kick a field goal from the 30 yard line, or hit a home run? Please! With professional training I’m sure you can take your average college athlete and teach him to hit home runs. I see high school kids down at the local park slam dunking basketballs all the time.
We have taken today’s professional athlete and placed them on a pedestal. They are revered more than any member of today’s society and for what? They are good at a sport where they receive the best training, food, equipment and supplements available. They get the proper rest, eat the proper diet and get to work out every day. It’s kind of like when Oprah lost 50 lbs., how tough was that? She had a personal trainer to work her fat ass out every day, a personal chef to cook her meals and a nutritional expert to plan her friggin’ menu. All she had to do was wake up every day and do what she was told. That must have been tough. What a great personal sacrifice she made.
I participate in a sport that requires tremendous physical, genetic and mental ability, as much if not more than any other professional athlete. For most of my career I trained myself, I had to read tons of literature to gain the necessary information I needed for diet and training. I have 5 kids and run a business for 15 hours a day. When I started Powerlifting I was a police officer working swing shift. My life is very similar to that of most powerlifters. What do we get for our dedication and sacrifice, contracts from Nike and Adidas, TV commercials, Millions of dollars? No, we get something much more. Self-satisfaction.
I have recently accomplished my long term goal of bench pressing 700lbs. There are probably 15 -20 guys alive that can bench press 700lbs., that’s well less than 1% OF THE WORLD’S population. How many guys squat over 1,000lbs? Mike Ruggeria, Ed Cohan, Brent Mikesell. Look at Gary Frank... The guy is a stud. Every time you turn around he is upping the total, he is virtually untouchable. Look at the Bill Crawford’s and Louie Simmons’s, not only are they accomplished lifters, but they are the best Powerlifting coaches in the world and they do it for little or no compensation.
Can Michael Jordan say that he has done something less than 1% of the world’s population has accomplished? I don’t think so. If you’re not a powerlifter you have no idea who theses guys are or that they are some of the most elite athletes in the world.
Professional powerlifters, the majority of the time, work a full time job, have families, must finance there own training, buy there own equipment pay hundreds to thousands of dollars in travel, food and lodging to do a few meets every year. Just so they can compete.
The fact that a 17 year old boy is going to be paid 25 million dollars to wear sneakers and play basketball sickens me. Today’s professional athletes, i.e.: basketball, football, baseball are nothing more than over paid cry babies. They walk around complaining about how they only get to do their sport because age limits them, they get really beat up from there sport and need millions of dollars so that when they are old they wont have to work anymore. What a bunch of crap.
If you are a competitive powerlifter you know how hard it is to reach elite status, you know the sacrifices you must make and most guys will never reach that level. Years of powerlifting will destroy your joints, take lots of time away from your family and most of us can’t make a living on it. Powerlifting requires tremendous dedication and love of the sport; most powerlifters have to train themselves by reading, watching videos and some trial and error.
I’m not saying it doesn’t take a certain degree of talent and physical ability to play professional sports, but it sure as hell is not worth the millions of dollars these guys are getting paid. Guys like Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio got paid peanuts compared to what your average professional athlete makes today. Those guys played baseball because they loved it. Today’s athlete moves to the highest bidder, no loyalty, no long term commitment, no team spirit, all they care about is who is going to pay me the most.
If it were up to me these guys would all get paid on a sliding scale based on performance? The better you play and more games you play in the more money you make. There would also be a cap on it. No athlete in any sport is worth more than $100 grand. Also when you sign with a team you sign for 5 years. Enough with this free agent crap. I refuse to watch professional sports anymore, you can’t even keep up between expansion teams and free agent you r favorite team can be virtually rebuilt in a year.
I am proud to be a member of the Powerlifting community. THIS is where the truly elite athlete still lives. Athletes, who are able to maintain a full time job, manage a family and still compete at an elite level in a sport they love.
Powerlifting may or may not turn into a paid professional sport; I personally think if this happens the sport will change and not necessarily for the good. I know one thing; I definitely don’t want to see it enter the realm of Olympic sports. What we have will be ruined if the world wide Olympic committee gets their hands on it.
If you are a powerlifter you can be proud, your not beholding to anyone, you are your own person and you have one thing today’s professional athlete does not have, HEART.

Bron: www.nazbar.com

That's why i wont sign.

[Unregistered]

Anyone who thinks Marion Jones is a doper should prove it, or shut up.
That includes those puffed-shirt officials and U.S. anti-doping detectives
trying to justify their existences with endless games of "gotcha." If
they've nabbed Jones or any other athlete, they should produce the hard
evidence, and that means a positive drug test. Otherwise, they should end
their Inspector Javert-like investigations.

I don't know for absolute certain whether Jones is clean, but let me make
this plain: I'm not going to declare her or anyone else guilty based on an
evil little something called "a non-analytical positive." The U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency ought to be promptly restructured, and its martinet CEO
Terry Madden stripped of his blazer, for threatening to use such a thing
against anyone, whether a Ping-Pong champion or the greatest runner in the
world, or you and me. And shame on the Justice Department and the Senate for
allowing it.

"We live in the United States, where people are innocent until they are
found guilty. What USADA is trying to do is find [athletes] guilty without
any form of investigation," Jones said succinctly at a pre-Olympic news
conference Sunday in New York.

What's a "non-analytical positive," you may ask? Basically, a
"non-analytical positive" is USADA's way of dealing with athletes they
suspect but can't catch red-handed. No matter how many drug tests you pass,
USADA can decide it has enough evidence to label you, or me, or Jones, or
Senator John McCain, a juicer and kick you off the Olympic team and ban you
from your sport.

Perhaps USOC chief of mission Herman Frazier put it best. "It's something
that gives you teeth if you can't come up with the evidence to convict," he
said.

Last I checked, that sort of thing was considered Un-American in both the
red and the blue states. Nevertheless, last week, the Senate blithely handed
over evidence from the Justice Department's BALCO investigation to USADA. It
never should have done so, especially given that USADA has such a murky and
dangerous policy on its books, and frankly, no great reputation for
respecting the rights of athletes. As far as I can tell, the attitude of the
organization is, you're guilty until proven guilty.

I'm all in favor of drug testing, and of pursuing cheats. But I'd rather
see a juicer win 10 dirty gold medals than allow USADA to penalize even one
innocent athlete for a "non-analytical positive." Here's why:

President Bill Martin of the USOC, which must abide by all USADA
decisions, was asked if his organization had done any homework on the
legality of a "non-analytical positive," and whether there might be some
problems as far as due process.

"We've done none, frankly," he replied.

Well, that's at least candid. Stupid, but candid.

In other words, BALCO evidence can be used against prospective Olympians,
even though the USOC has no idea of the quality of that evidence, or if it's
used fairly. BALCO is a mess. Four people have been charged with illegally
distributing steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs out of the BALCO
lab in Burlingame, Calif., but not much else is clear. Among those who
testified before the grand jury was Jones, whose ex-husband, shot putter
C.J. Hunter, tested positive for steroids and is incontrovertibly a cheat.
There have been rumors that evidence such as signed checks and e-mails
implicate Jones herself. None of it has been confirmed, and much of it could
be wrong, and all of it she has denied. The only thing it may prove is that
Jones made a poor choice in husbands. Furthermore, BALCO founder Victor
Conte could say anything and implicate anyone to the Feds in order to cut
himself a deal.

Evidence in a Justice Department investigation is normally guarded very
closely, for a good reason: to preserve the integrity of it. Grand jury
secrecy is meant to protect evidence from becoming politicized, or used in
the wrong way. Ordinarily, Justice wouldn't dream of turning over evidence
to Congress, much less an organization like USADA, and why it did in this
instance is an appalling mystery. Perhaps it thinks headliner (and
politically convenient) sports investigations shouldn't be subject to the
same rigors as those of vice presidential energy task forces.

In any event, USADA can now use the most specious BALCO evidence to bar
athletes, and it could also use it to bully, grandstand politically, or
simply smear those it suspects but can't get.

"If I make the Olympic team, which I plan to do, and I am held from the
Olympic Games because of something somebody thought, you can pretty much bet
there will be lawsuits," Jones said. "I'm not just going to sit down and let
someone or a group of people or an organization take away my livelihood
because of a hunch, because of a thought, because somebody's trying to show
their power."

The worst part of all of this is that the "non-analytical positive" is a
tacit admission by USADA that it isn't doing its job particularly well --
otherwise, why would it need such a thing? USADA has way too much power and
not nearly enough good science and sound legality. Its actions are chaotic,
selective and uneven: one day a substance is permissible, the next it's
banned. THG, for instance, is deemed a "steroid" -- but it's unclear whether
it has any benefits. Let me repeat: USADA has declared taking THG a drug
crime even though no one knows whether it actually helps you cheat or not.

USADA is young; it was created only four years ago, and it's obviously
feeling frisky. It has also acquired a profile internationally. But what's
more important is how it behaves at home, and the USOC may regret turning
drug-governance issues over to it, because USADA is threatening to set a
terrible precedent, and turn the 2004 Games into the Injunction Olympics.
For the first time in the history of sport, an athlete may be expelled for a
drug offense without confirmation of a test result. What recourse does an
athlete have? Very little. He or she can appeal to American Arbitration
Association, followed by the Court of Sport Arbitration, and hope to win a
favorable decision by July 21, when the U.S. Olympic rosters will be set.

Or, they can hire the best attorney in the land and sue USADA and the USOC
until all the letters drop off.

What's really going on here is that the drug police are short-circuiting
due process because their science isn't good enough. They can't catch
cheaters fair and square -- so they've decided to cheat, too, on the rules
of evidence.

Bron: www.nazbar.com

Tja ik vind de sport echt mooi zoals ie nu is.

[MonsterStrength]

je haalt goeie punten aan bart met die artikels, alles wat ze zeggen is waar, maar dat is van één kant, je moet ook de positieve punten ervan bekijken, en dan afwegen

[munk]

stoere tekst

idd, wakeara heeft gelijk en ik denk dat er meer voor dan nadelen aan zouden zijn dus heb ik getekend

[eq_909]

Done!

Nu eis ik wel van je dat je mee gaat doen in Peking he!!!

[Antropoid]

Done!