Ethics Newsline®

“Our country has long turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of our heroes. If you have athletic talent or money or fame, the law is applied much differently than if you are slow or poor or an average American trying to get by. At the same time, all sports have for far too long given the benefit of the doubt to its heroes who seem too good to be true, even when common sense indicates they are not.”

– Newly appointed chief executive of USA Track & Field Doug Logan, urging President Bush in an open letter last week not to pardon disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones, currently serving jail time for “lying to investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs,” reports the New York Times

Source: New York Times, July 23.

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