Imagine that you are an elite athlete who has spent every day training for only the chance at glory. Not only have you never doped, but you hate what it has done to the sport you love. One day you receive notice that you have tested positive for a banned substance. In that moment, your life’s work, your team, your coach, your club are all gone and you are left alone to try to convince a dope-sick world that you are not one of them.
We don’t know if Steven Colvert doped. The science is debated and the samples have been destroyed. The public has no reason to believe anything anymore. But even if he did dope, the process by which he was convicted raises so many issues in due process that one must worry for any potentially innocent athletes out there. If you’re not rich and famous, you have almost no chance of proving your innocence.
We hope this film shows that the other side of our rabid need for justice in these doping scandals are the clean athletes who have rights worthy of our consideration. Surely the only thing worse than a doped athlete winning, is a clean athlete taken from his prime.
