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Drugs in Sport

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Vektrix

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:28 am

Drugs in Sport

OK, last night I heard that Greg Rusedski tested positive for banned drugs some six months ago. Dwain Chambers is currently suspended pending a hearing for use of the same drugs and Linford Christie was cleared a couple years back for said drug. I heard that some 400 sports men and women (including Kelly White) are under suspicion or have already tested positive for said drug and are awaiting repurcussions. My question is therefore this....

If so many people in sport are taking Nandrolone (knowingly or not) why don't the sporting authorities investigate this drug further before imposing rules on it? It seems to me that there are way to many occurences for this drug to be being taken intentionally by everyone involved. Furthermore, I understand there are much more effective drugs than nandrolone for helping one train.



As a freelancer one encounters some strange stuff - in the the end, however, you always remain the strangest thing you are ware of.

Tawakalna

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:34 am

i think this whole issue of drugs in sprt is getting out of hand. )eople are having their careers ruined for what i see is no good reason. Chonking down loads of steroids to make you stronger is one thing, getting whacked on chas is another, but nasal inhalers cos youve got the sniffles? pls. How can that be considered drug abuse or cheating?

Vektrix

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:39 am

I made a slight error on my original posting. Dwain Chambers was using a drug that was supposed to be undetectable. Which begs the question - if he was detected using it, how can he be innocent - unless his drink was spiked?

[steel]

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:34 am

yea it is getting silly a skier getting banned for using vicks
when for years some nations entire teams in some sports were em err under suspicion
plus certain high profile athletes who mysteriously come from relative obscurity to win everything in a short time with a very quick retiral and in some cases death from symptoms consistent with perfomance enhancing drug abuse
if people will go to those length spiking another competetor is well within thr realms of possibility

Top-Gun

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:52 am

I heard that today also. I work in a Donnay Internation store, and wonder how this will effect us

"A TopGun through and through"

Saiyan

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:05 am

As an athlete myself I don't agree with it. If, for example, I was facing an adversary that had been taking performance enhancing drugs to gain the superioirty I would want him banned.

Vektrix

Post Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:03 am

Saiyan, the problem is, many of these athletes don't actually mean to take them - OK, a lot do, but the point is you may end up banning those who inhaled it in an inhaler because they have asthma, or in a vitamin supplement. I have read quite a lot of ingredients on the side of many vitamin jars, and nadrolone has never appeared on any of them.

Anyway, I remember in the 90's the Chinese govt. allowing it's athletes to take steroids. Also, when Paula Radcliffe (one of the few athletes has managed to make the step up successfully, from obscurity to invincibility w/out drugs) ran just over 30 mins for 10,000 it was considered a world record by many commentators (not just British) because the athlete who officially holds it was Chinese!!!

Make of that what you will

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