Correct. Good move. Not his fault, however, good move.

Dont have to hide behind our own finger. It is a common secret that sprinter athletes take a lot of drugs. Why? Cause those athletes get the biggest sponsor names from the shoe industry. Nike, Addidas, Puma sponsor sprinters not swimming or javelling athletes. So, there is a sheer competition.

Kenteris was found negative during the 2000 Olympics as most sprinter athletes then. However, that doesnt mean that he or the rest of them didnt take any drugs at all.

Even in university/college level, athletes take drugs. Imagine in millions game Olympics.

There should be a restrictive law against dopping. Those Olympics show many US athletes banned during dopping control and now two former gold champions will be banned as well.

PS: Green missed the first out of two dopping appearance in Athens. Has another chance to show up now. Doesnt he see what happens here…?

Well, modern day Olympics is the playground of minor sports [bandmington-whatever- softball(?), grass hockey (hah?)]

and the playground of huge sponsors. Especially the shoe industry as Al Bandy would say… 😀

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Go Hellas

…..The 1972 meet brought together pilots from three of NATO’S Southern Region nations, plus a combined U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force guest team, and again it featured five different air weapon systems. Representing the Hellenic Air Force and flying Northrop RF-5As was the 349th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron from Larissa AB, Greece. Competing from the Italian Air Force, flying Fiat G-9ls, was the 14th LWAR Squadron from Treviso AB, Italy. Shooting for the Turkish Air Force, flying Lockheed F-104G Starfighters, was the 191st Fighter Bomber Squadron, Balikesir AB, Turkey. Making up the Navy element of the guest team, flying Ling-Temco-Vought A-7Bs, was Attack Carrier Wing Six from the USS Roosevelt. And for the USAF guest element was USAFE’S 612th TAC Fighter Squadron of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing, Torrejon AB, Spain, flying McDonnell Douglas F-4Es.

The uniqueness of the meet in having five different air weapon systems called for some unique decisions. The F-4E and F-104G have a “gatling” gun that, because of its rapid-firing capability and design characteristics, could not be loaded with only the 80 rounds required by meet rules. The solution to this problem was to load the gun fully, set a limit switch at approximately 80, and then count the expended rounds after the mission. If more than 80 rounds were fired, the number over 80 was subtracted from the pilot’s score. If fewer than 80 rounds were fired, the number of hits stood. This method was agreed to by all participating team captains.

Procedures also had to be set up to score the Italian Air Force G-91, which uses a .50-caliber weapon system. This was taken care of by moving the foul or firing line up to 1200 feet, whereas the rest of the competitors had to observe a 1600-foot foul line.

As in the previous year’s meet, each pilot was required to fly at least two familiarization flights prior to competition flying. Six competition missions were scheduled for each pilot: four range-only missions and two full missions. On each range-only mission, the pilot was to expend one dive bomb, one skip bomb, and 80 rounds of ammunition for a possible perfect score of 30 points.

On each full mission, the pilot was to low-level navigate to an equivalent target, then fly to the range to expend two rockets and 80 rounds of ammunition for a possible perfect score of 40 points.

On 11 and 12 July, 87 familiarization flights were scheduled and 86 actually flown; one pilot had to abort because of sickness. To make the familiarization flights as meaningful as possible, every pilot flew a practice low-level navigation mission, with targeting judges in place, and escorted by chase aircraft.

During the competition phase, every pilot was scheduled to fly a low-level navigation route on each of his two full missions. Low-level navigation routes and equivalent targets were all located in the Larissa area. Fourteen targets and routes were chosen prior to the meet, and a target folder was prepared for each target. Included in the folder were maps, a target route description form, and at least three aerial photographs of the target.

Since six days of competition flying were planned, eight full missions per day were scheduled. This schedule required a total of eight different targets for the meet.

As in the familiarization flights, at each equivalent target there were two target judges to accurately time and position each aircraft. Every full-mission pilot was followed by a two-place chase aircraft piloted by the Hellenic Air Force. Chase judges from Hq AIRSOUTH and the RAF occupied the rear seats.

Competition flying started on 12 July. At the end of the first day’s competition, the Turkish Air Force team found the Ambelon Gunnery Range much to their liking and jumped off to a five-point lead over the Greek team, 119 to 114, followed by the U.S. team with 102.

It became evident that the teams were well trained and evenly matched and that the Commander’s Trophy would go to the team making the fewest mistakes.

Five points down at the end of the first day of competition, the Greek team rallied and took over the lead early in the morning of the second day of competition. They ended the day with a 14-point margin over the second-place U.S. team. Each consecutive day saw the Hellenic team gradually increasing its lead, to 29, 35, and 39 points, and when the meet ended they had won by a 28-point margin and a total score of 714 points. Finishing in second place was the USN-USAF guest team with 686 points. In third place was the Turkish team with 671 points, followed closely by the Italian team with 662.

The 714 points rolled up by the Greek team was the highest winning score to date. Besides the “Over-all Top Gun” of the meet, Captain G. Papaioannou, who amassed 136 points, all the members of the Greek team scored at least 110 points.

Tops in the range-only missions with 481 points was the Turkish team, which also walked off with individual honors in the dive-bombing and strafing events.

Speaking to a closing-day ceremonies audience, General Papanikolaou likened participation in “Best Hit” to competition in the early Olympic Games:

To compete in these Olympic Games was an honor in itself for the participants, their families and the community. . . Also, a portion of the wall that encircled the winners’ community was symbolically torn down to indicate that their brave and able competitors could defend the town better than a wall.

Today in our countries, we have no walls for defense, rather we have our Alliance. The achievements of all competitors during “Best Hit ’72” show that a great improvement has been achieved by the Allied Air Forces of the Southern Region. That enables us, I believe, to be more optimistic for the efficiency of our common defense, as well as more confident of ourselves.

Lieutenant General Richard H. Ellis, Commander, AIRSOUTH, in summarizing the meet said:

The 2733 points scored in this year’s meet are 713 points more than last year’s total of 2020, a tribute to the training and competitive spirit of the participating pilots and ground crews, and concrete evidence that the over-all aim of the meet— “to serve as an incentive for internal improvement in the over-all weapons delivery capability of AIRSOUTH’S air forces”—has been achieved.

“Best Hit ‘73” will be held in Italy.

Hill Air Force Base, Utah

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