When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.
There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.
I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.