With the sport of athletics in complete disarray due to the doping crisis, Tyson Fury, almost on the eve of what we all hope will be a successful challenge has come out with an outrageous statement, or two.
Fury, like some others, remains convinced that doping is rife in boxing and reckons the only way to get a level playing field is to make drugs legal, or as Tyson puts it,
‘I think being in a democratic world means we have to be open to different things.
‘Why don’t they make drugs totally legal in sports and then it would be fully fair?
‘If the governing bodies want to do that, it will be a bit fairer. You can’t tell me that 99% of these sportspeople ain’t taking drugs if they’ve got bodies like Greek gods.
‘If a man wants to pump himself full of drugs it’s only shortening his life isn’t it? When you’re pumping yourself full of drugs it’s putting pressure on your heart, your liver, your lungs, your kidneys.
‘You’re on a one-way ticket to a heart attack so that’s why you see a lot of these bodybuilders and weightlifters having heart attacks young because they’re pumped up so much and the heart can’t take the pressure.’
Some controversial stuff from the unbeaten heavyweight there.
However, with doping dominating sporting headlines, the British Boxing Board of Control have moved quickly to distance themselves from Tyson?s suggestions, issuing a statement that reads,
‘The BBBoC has an extensive programme of out-of-competition testing and in-competition testing and will maintain its endeavours to combat drug use in association with United Kingdom Anti-Doping, who carry out all our testing procedures and disciplinary hearings in compliance with the Wada code.’
Personally, I?d be surprised if the allegations laid down by Tyson are as widespread as he?s hinted, but who knows what lies around the corner!
Tyson Fury on Doping!
