Nick Gillespie Discusses Lance Armstrong and Illegal Doping with Stossel
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GoogleReason.tv editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie appeared on Stossel to discuss how doping in sports is wrongly vilified over diet, extra exercise, and surgery as "enhancing" performance and how more choice and legalized drugs would give room for people like Lance Armstrong to be open and honest. Air Date: January 31, 2013.
Approximately 6.20 minutes.
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Gillespie is way off base on this one. Armstrong agreed to abide a certain set of rules that govern the races he competed in. Therefore, he cheated and lied when violating VOLUNTARY agreement to the rules. Other aspects to gain an advantage: diet, training, innovative technology, etc are all proper because when they are not counter to the governing rules.
Many drugs are harmful, which is one reason to have sport regs ban them. If people want sport where OD of performance enhancing drugs is possible, then compete in non-regulated sports.
By the way, Nick. How do you know if you someone competing in the Natural competition is cheating? Drug testing.
He is definitely out of his element in this argument.