Trevor Graham was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest for lying to investigators about his own dealings with steroids. Graham, who blew the whistle on BALCO presumably because juiced BALCO athletes were more successful than his own juiced athletes gets an easier sentence than his former client Marion Jones, who served six months in prison. Some justice!
Graham was a cheat who undermined the spirit of competition by pushing his athletes to cheat. When his cheating was less effective than other cheats, he sought to quash the "competition" by ratting them out. He was successful in destroying BALCO, but that doesn't make him the hero as his lawyer tried to depict him as being. He was as crooked as BALCO. He deserved at least as much prison time as Jones received. If anything, the judge should have made an example of him and given him the maximum sentence in prison.
You don't reward cheats by going easy on them. It doesn't matter that his career is over. He would never have gotten to the level he attained without cheating. He was no better than the people he ratted out. He deserved the same treatment they got.
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