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I'm afraid that I don't, in general, hold any sports people in particularly high esteem. Many get paid extremely good money in a very short period of time (many football players would earn more in a 10 year career than I will in a lifetime and this is perhaps one of the reasons they get into drugs). If they get caught "breaking the rules", throw them out and make them get a "real job". They should realise they get paid bickies and so they should be more or less beyond reproach. The same laws should apply to them as anyone else and the legal system should treat them as such.
As for heroes? Anyone who does their job can never be considered a hero. A fireman who runs into a burning building to save someone is NOT a hero. Someone walking down the street who runs into the same building IS a hero (or maybe foolish?). Someone who kicks a piece of leather between two big sticks and gets it in the middle only a couple of seconds before everyone is about to go home for tea and as a result their friends have kicked this same piece of leather between the sticks more times than the other group is NOT a hero...if they believe they are (and the problem is that I think they do) they are better described as a wanker.
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