faulty logic

passion richardson, marion jones' relay teammate who might lose her bronze medal from the 2000 olympics, says that she was not taking drugs then and should not be penalized for jones' mistake. you gotta love her logic.

she claims she should keep her medal because she was not on 'roids. but has she forgotten the dynamics of the relay race? perhaps, because she fails to see that the team did not win fairly; it was a team race, so the team is penalized. i don't think that's so hard to understand. if one person on the team was disqualified during the run, the team loses and no one gets a medal.

she then goes on to say,

"I mean, you don't know what was going on on the other teams, so how do you really rectify that situation?" Richardson said. "There's really no positive outcome in either way that it goes."

fantastic! if we were to go and judge everything on hypotheticals, then why even give out medals!? you have to wonder how someone could actually hear this argument as they are giving it to reporters and NOT think that it doesn't make any sense.