Since when did crystal meth become a performance enhancer and since when did that shit linger in your system for 10 years? Do we forget how great he was prior and after 1997? The man wrote an autobiography and did what you're suppose to be, reveal facts about yourself people didn't know.
If other tennis players were put under a microscope I'm sure we'd find a lot of dirt on them. This dude is retired and came out about his personal drug use. He didn't take steroids. He didn't gamble on the game. He didn't pay anyone to help him win. He didn't do anything that should make people say stupid shit like Safin and others are saying.
This makes me sick and its one of the reasons I hate 99.9% of all tennis personalities other than Johnny Mac.
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis ... id=4640519
PARIS -- Former No. 1-ranked Marat Safin believes that Andre Agassi should give his tennis titles back after confessing he tested positive for a banned substance during his career and lied about it to the ATP.
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If he is as fair play as he says he is, he has to go to the end. You know, the ATP has a bank account and he can give the money back if he wants.
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-- Marat Safin, former world No. 1
Agassi admitted in his autobiography "Open" that he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test, a result he says was thrown out after he lied by saying he "unwittingly" took the substance.
Safin, who plans to retire this month, said in an interview with L'Equipe newspaper on Tuesday that Agassi should "give his titles, his money and his Grand Slam titles" back.
"I'm not defending the ATP, but what he said put it in a delicate position," Safin said. "The ATP allowed him to win a lot of tournaments, a lot of money. It kept his secret. Why does he need to be so cruel with it?"
Agassi, who retired in 2006, won 60 titles, including eight Grand Slams, during his career. He recently told The Associated Press that he had to speak about his lies because he couldn't live with it anymore.
"If he is as fair play as he says he is, he has to go to the end," Safin said. "You know, the ATP has a bank account and he can give the money back if he wants."
Safin, who will retire after this week's Paris Masters, won the 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open. The 29-year-old Russian said he isn't going to write his autobiography when his career will be over.
"Me, I don't need money," he said. "The question is: Why did he do this? What is done is done. Does he hope to sell more books? It's absolutely stupid."