Luke Thomas

That was about something else.

And so, this idea that, like, that performance-enhancing drugs are, um, you know,

some kind of detriment to a world that is based on, you know, what sports is really about is health and safety.

Sports is about health and safety.

Pro sports has nothing to do with that.

And if those guys want to use it and it improves the entertainment quotient, uh, and this is key, this is the last part.

the players themselves are reasonably okay with the use of it, I'm not going to sit here and say I have some kind of problem with it.

Now that can change if the players themselves, the ones who have the most skin in the game, if they say we want stronger regulations, I'm actually okay with that too.

My basic belief is that what do the players want?

Because here's what happens.

When you get a surveillance system, we're going to root out drug testing.

What inevitably happens is do you reduce drug use overall?

You do.

But A, you cannot eliminate it.

And B, you're going to get a lot of innocent people in trouble.

It happens over and over and over and over again.

It is proof.

You cannot have perfect surveillance.

So at some point, you have to ask yourself, what is the acceptable level of use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport?

And my answer to that is, what do the people involved in the sport have to say?