http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/racing/06/02/Danica_PED/index.htmlDanica Patrick has apologized for some controversial comments made to Sports Illustrated before the Indy 500, saying, "The whole interview with Dan, and every other interview I've ever done with Dan, the questioning comes from left field. It was just a joke and I really apologize if it came across any other way. ... It was a bad joke. There is a lot of sensitivity in our culture about
. With all the baseball stuff, I've followed it and this is a real problem. It's a shame kids think they have to do this to get ahead. It's very dangerous. ... It's absolutely not what I'm about. I've learned my lesson on what I should be joking about."
Danica made her comments to USA Today columnist Christine Brennan over the weekend, on the heels of after an interview with SI columnist Dan Patrick in which the 27-year-old driver was asked the following set of questions:
Dan: "If you could take a performance-enhancing drug and not get caught, would you do it if it allowed you to win Indy?
Danica: Well, then it's not cheating, is it? If nobody finds out?
Dan: So you would do it?
Danica: Yeah, it would be like finding a gray area. In motorsports we work in the gray areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book."
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:wow: Now there is someone that I would enjoy talking about doing roids here in the Sports Forum!
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