Bode Miller sticks to his doping guns

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

BERLIN (AFP) — America's 2005 World Cup champion Bode Miller repeated his controversial stance on Sunday over doping saying that either everyone should be allowed to take banned products or nothing at all.

The 30-year-old - who first voiced his controversial opinions in 2005 - told Sunday's edition of Die Welt that it should be all or nothing as regards what athletes can take.

"Authorising doping is fair, well fair in that it gives everybody an equal chance and that has nothing to do with 'good' or 'bad'," said Miller, who has stopped training with his US Ski team-mates.

"If everything was authorised, that is fair. If everything was banned that is fair as well."

Miller highlighted the case of EPO and cycling, where it is endemic.

"The riders...