Don’t make the Tiger Woods/PED leap
Dan from Chicago: “At what point do people really start to question whether or not Tiger was ever taking performance enhancing drugs? … Tiger got big and ripped in a hurry and with the rash of injuries recently, it has to raise an eyebrow, don’t you think?”
From a golf fan named Cameron: “His aggressive/sexual behavior and broken-down body are very typical results of PEDs. Obviously no concrete evidence, but also obviously worth discussing.”
From another golf follower named J. Stellato: “Did he use PEDs? … If we ask these questions in other sports and athletes, maybe it’s time to take a closer look at Tiger and see what his legacy was built on.”
And these are the calm, reasoned emails. You should read some from the fanatics.
Anyway, the Tiger Woods ice floe of invincibility continues to melt slowly away. Blame it on global credibility warming.
Woods has a problem and it goes way beyond whether he’ll be able to compete in next month’s U.S. Open at Congressional. (He said on Monday he intends to try.) The problem is this: People don’t know if they can believe him anymore.
Questions about the connection between his latest knee/Achilles injury and possible PED use were inevitable, even predictable. Woods is 35. His body is breaking down. It has to be the aftereffects of Vitamin S injections, right?
Actually, no, it doesn’t.
“It appears he strained his MCL [medial collateral ligament],” said Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon and assistant professor of sports medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “That’s pretty unusual for that to be related to steroid use.”
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