P.F.Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this suspicion due to various governing bodies catching people
from time to time? When was the last time anyone really thought about
drug use in major sports? It's certainly higher than in track and
field but people don't seem to care. Mark
on 20/8/01 10:01 AM, Prof. Uri Goldbourt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A careful look at Yegorva's achievement last year will demonstarte that her
progress was less enormous than many an athlete in the past, who still bask
in glory - Florence Griffith-Joyner a988 amazing breakthrough first and
Hi!
I quite frankly don't understand what is the fuss about all
this drug/non-drug business.
In a society where everyone is on drugs, from recreational
purposes, medical purposes and even to get through the stresses
of every day life, I don't see any moral to ask these athletes
to behave as if
You say Yegerova was demonised and singled out among most likely a
non-negligible number of athletes. I assume you mean that a lot of
athletes take EPO or some drugs. Yegerova is demonised because at the
World
Championships she was the only one that the charge can be levelled at with
Perhaps I am as one-eyed as Uri, but I think he has made a very valid point.
Merlene Ottey went on to compete in Sydney after testing positive for
nandrolone, but then being reintstated by IAAF due to technical errors.
The only controversy was whether or not she should be allowed to run
the
In a message dated Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:36:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Ed Dana
Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't get me wrong - if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a
duck, most of us (myself included) will believe that it is. The urine test is not
pretty
And please spare me the effects of a lifetime of drug
taking. Many drugs help us and nobody is thinking twice
about taking them when they need.
I think 3 or 4 times before I take ANY drug, including aspirin or cold
medicine. I know many other people who feel the same way. There is quite a
Just so we understand each other Miguel.
You are trying to tell us to let society dictate morality, fairness,
and
righteousness. That simply is irresponsible, and a very immature way
to
conduct yourself. It is the Well everyone else was doing it!
attitude,
that has cost more than a
Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
but in a sport where new training methods,
new shoes, new materials, new surfaces are quickly absorbed
why not the new pharmacological innovations!? Why do we
distrust so much science and all the sudden we want everyone
to be clean!
Many of the perfromancing enhancing
On that note, let me ask some questions that I have been asking myself
regarding the drug situation in track and field ..
Why are we testing ??
A: Too protect people from themselves and too make the sport fair for those
who don't want to resort to drug use ... so they can theoretically
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, lehane wrote:
Many of the perfromancing enhancing pharmacological innovations have
unacceptable health risks.
Arguably, so does competing clean at an elite level. It isn't healthy
to break bones or tear muscles and ligaments. It isn't healthy to neglact
friends and
I am in no way in favor of drug use .. However, I am definitely against
those things which hurt the sport ..
A: Want to stop things from hurting the sport? Start with the athletes who
cheat. Stop them from cheating ... and no more black eye for the sport. If
it is difficult, that doesn't
Why are we testing ??
A: Too protect people from themselves and too make the sport fair for
those
who don't want to resort to drug use ... so they can theoretically compete
on the oh-so-frequently-mentioned level playing field.
How does one define this level plaing field?? See original
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