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November 2, 2012
By now, we all know the new Lance Armstrong story, the one where he doesn't get to keep his seven Tour de France medals because of blood doping allegations that have finally made it to the podium.
But I'd like to show you how athletes who chose not to blood dope to get an extra 5 percent or 10 percent boost in performance at the elite level have felt for years as their governing bodies chose not to level the playing field: cheated.
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Jeff Nesbit was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies; a senior communications official at the White House; a national journalist with Knight-Ridder Newspapers and others; and a strategic communications adviser to science, public health, technology, and environmental non-profits and campaigns. He's the author of 19 novels. His latest (PEACE, Summerside Press/Guideposts, Fall 2010) begins the day Israel decides to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. A sequel (OIL, Guideposts) will be in bookstores June 1.
