The Bike Doctor
Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral has a lot of explaining to do. I have blogged before how some doctors lose their ethics when “stars” get in their eyes. Dr. Moral may be another perpetrator of bad deeds as this article in the WSJ explained. The chain smoking doctor “worked in a small room in back of the Postal team bus that followed the team along the course. Behind a set of sliding doors, the former riders say, he injected riders with drugs or performed blood transfusions that are banned in the sport.” So, to summarize, García del Moral was popular for aggressively promoting an undercover regimen of banned drugs and medical procedures. So, basically, Dr. Moral had no morals. I think it was old Bill Shakespeare (or Felix Unger) who said:
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Yes, the problems of our planet boil down to the lust for money and power. The solution will come when we figure out how to speed up the process of evolution.
OK, I know I have a fixation, but isn’t this another example of how the blind pursuit of money corrupts everything, including medicine?
Competitive biking is big business, and profit preempts every other value for some/most of those involved. It’s not as obscene as collegiate and professional football and basketball, which turned schoolboy games into casinos and created monsters like the Paterno/Sandusky gang, but it’s bad enough.