Man kan reagera på olika sätt till nyheten om att Cristiane ”Cyborg” Santos testats positiv för anabola steorider. Samma gäller för förklaringen att det otillåtna preparatet skulle finnas i ett bantningsmedel hon använde.
Gina Carano, vars senaste match och enda förlust i MMA-karriären kom mot just Santos, reagerade på följande vis.
”I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t hurt by the whole thing. That fight with her was definitely the biggest moment of my mixed martial arts (MMA) career and at that time I had people around me telling me she was on steroids and everything. But, if there was a chance that she wasn’t, I never wanted to take anything away from her [win]. She is a wonderful athlete, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t sting a little. In fact, I could have gone the rest of my life without hearing that. But, at the same time, she’s a human being and a phenomenal athlete, so maybe someone around her was telling her she needed to do that when she really didn’t. Maybe it was someone around her telling her the wrong things, I don’t know. She’s going to have a tough enough time getting people to believe in her [after this], so she’s going to go through her own problems. I sympathize with her sometimes — we all make mistakes in life. And, she’s going through that very publicly in front of a lot of people who already thought that she [was using steroids]. I kind of feel bad for her.”, säger Carano till MMA Mania.
Carano är sårad men samtidigt empatisk och förstående. Kan vi fans vara lika förlåtande eller är vi extra hårda på ”Cyborg” i jämförelse med andra som åkt fast för otillåtna preparat?
