On HSI and supplements, Randy wrote (full text below):
> Okay, this is the first 'minor'.
> What's it take, a 'major' or two to key HSI athletes, before
> the light bulb comes on?
Not all "supplements" are alike. Some supplements are very effective
anabolic steroids (yes, you can buy them over the counter legally).
Other supplements are much less effective ergogenic aids. I don't know of
any common products that contain anabolic steroids, but there are plenty
with ephedrine. The supplements that are steroids, everyone knows are
steroids. Ephedrine you can get caught with due to careless label
reading.
You wont get an accidental "major" positive from a food supplement unless
you are totally clueless.
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I noted the recent announcement that Ato Boldon came up with
> an ephedrine 'minor' positive back in May, probably due to
> it being in a food supplement or cold remedy.
>
> HSI's listmember Darrell Smith has been one of the more vocal
> defenders of elite athletes taking nutritional supplements,
> alleging that they can't effectively compete without it.
>
> Okay, this is the first 'minor'.
> What's it take, a 'major' or two to key HSI athletes, before
> the light bulb comes on?
>
> Or is HSI hedging their bets, assuming that any 'inadvertant'
> majors due to food supplement contamination by a top HSI
> athlete would be swept under the rug by the IAAF, because
> the superstars are needed by the sport?
>
> The wording accompanying the recent Boldon news seemed almost
> apologetic to Boldon, like they were 'sorry' they had to
> announce a positive at all, knowing that Ato couldn't
> possibly have done anything like that intentionally; just
> blame it on those evil supplement manufacturers, so Ato
> gets off with a handslap that is more like a pat on the back.
> I'm not saying that Ato did it on purpose, but to blow off
> the continuing 'blind ingestion of supplements' is nuts.
>
> Anybody else feel the way I do? IAAF needs to get its act
> together- either come down hard on everybody like they did
> Baumann and the nandro/food supplement cases, or back off
> and let ANYBODY with a food supplement excuse off the hook.
>
> Merode and his IOC drug lab pals seem to be on the side of
> 'you're responsible for everything in your body no matter
> how it got there' line of thinking, along with the corollary
> 'if you can't be 100% certain of both the chemical makeup
> of every nutritional supplement you ingest, along with the
> resulting chemical reactions that occur inside your body
> after ingestion (ingested "A" + naturally present "B" yields
> banned "C"), then don't take any supplements at all.
>
> The IAAF seems to play lip service to that line of thinking,
> but enforcement is a bit shakier.
>
> RT
>
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Paul Talbot
Department of Geography/
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado, Boulder
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