In practical tests of suicide, Riccardo Ricco has ditched all the cycling. From fan of this sport, I believe that the two-year ban, affibbiatagli for doping at the Tour of 2008, were insufficient to meditate on the vice. But in vain. Caught him injecting his own blood, poorly preserved in the refrigerator after plenty of oxygen, the gesture recalls a mammon intent to procure an illegal abortion. Imagine him there, and ties between needles, blood bags and auction hypodermoclysis was, for me, like a kick in the lower belly, with all the force unleashed by my own naivety. Some might accuse me of Olympic credulity to insist too much hope in the recovery of a practice constantly disgraced by transgressions, but the passion for this discipline and above all confidence in sports and in men who practice it can not shut them down.
Ricco must disappear from this and every other sport would come to his mind to practice to earn a living. Yet, in acknowledging the seriousness of the act, some distinction needs to be done and whether the fault is all his.
We live in a social context, as well as sport, where coming in second or last does not make much difference. If you do not win, you're nobody. The sponsors, fans, newspapers and TV only if you open up your arms come first or if you are able to struggle, failing to up to 50% on the highest podium. There are very few, including athletes, those who know who was second in the Tour of Italy in 2010, or the Tour de France or the Vuelta. E 'matter of statistics, useful for the TV commentators to go a bit' of time waiting for the runners. There sponsors willing to kick a € for a team that, one way or another, is unable to guarantee a minute of TV advertising to the brand that supports financially. To ensure the visibility of the top competing team managers, masseurs, coaches and, above all doctors. Pharmacologists professional magicians of the tube, chemists, stealers of dreams and passions capable of sifting the evidence of murder and slow food illusions in young athletes. They are, or rather, should be the first to be struck off and placed in conditions of not doing more damage. A company should go to their journalists, and always ready to bring out the winner and just ignore the gestures Sports, especially when inspired by athletic and ethical values. A wheel should follow the sponsor, with some mitigating the mercenary nature of their choices. A crucial role in the degenerative process of this discipline is to be charged to the rules governing the competitions in the world and in Italy. I refer to the length of the races, the exasperation of the difficulties to increase the performance and appeal of the audience. The rider who wants to overcome the long series of hardships is obliged to use shortcuts with the spirit decubertiano have to do as the devil with holy water.
The sentencing of a framework now decomposed in terms of honesty and fairness, is permitted by the public who claims not to be deceived by false performance, which should not join the condemnation, however, colleagues cyclists, too anxious, as in the case of Riccò Pharisees to take distances from the companion, disgusted by guilt, as if they were immune from action or danger of the same tenor. It 'the most unbearable, shameful and wrong, both for them and for the dignity of his colleague, listed as a polluted, pretending to be better.
A cycling so no use to anyone. No need for young people, who need much more examples, does not do the sport, which sees its vital principles offended, do not even need to sponsors who are at risk penalized to see sales of its products, you do not need to journalism, forced to give uplifting images do not exist, or ignore the problem. The race, the real is no longer on the streets, but in the laboratories, where chemists face of death, pledged to find new substances which are not intercepted and auditors resigned to playing the role of loser.
The whole society, with family in mind, you should look to new horizons, edifying models are useful to restore to the individual and collective life lost meanings. Complemented at the school this restoration project, which will be recognized as an authority in favor of an uncaring attitude sottrattale disseminated and exchanged for the right to freedom.
Mr. Giocondo Talamonti
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