It could be that it saves face, admitting they were wrong means admitting a lot of what they believe is also wrong and it can be very difficult to admit to that

I don’t know athletes names, and please don’t think I am trying to criticise him, but If he is competing in the enhanced games then there would be presumably no testing for enhancing drugs, so we only really have his word that he doesn’t use enhancing drugs which may not be the same as actually not using enhancing drugs

You sound as if you think the democrats are a progressive party