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Bob Fisher OPINION

Cheating in sailboat racing is common, according to Rodney Pattisson, writing in his recently published autobiography, “Superdocious!”. It is true of all sports and has been so ever since the Greeks first came up with the Olympic ideal. He tells of those early competitors using testosterone-increasing substances contained within sheep testicles, by eating them! That was 28 centuries ago and only sophistication has changed in those long years.

Rodney reminds us of the case of Mario Capio,

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