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For starters, although Armstrong took testosterone supplements he is mostly accused of using blood doping and EPO. We don't need to "bring down" those who drin
by Lio 9y ago
For starters, although Armstrong took testosterone supplements he is mostly accused of using blood doping and EPO.
We don't need to "bring down" those who drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol makes you slower not faster.
The reason that we don't just let cyclists like Armstrong just use any "supplements" they want in a special league is because they then pressurise their domestiques to do the same. This is what Armstrong tried to do with Frankie Andreu.
There are serious long and short term health implications to that, see Tyler Hamilton's description of taking a "bad" blood transfusion in The Secret Race. Many professional cyclists died from "mysterious" night time heart attacks. Some just young neo-pros. Can you really say that they understood the risks of over thickened blood?
I think we'd all be happier if Armstrong and the other cheats found a country where it's legal to dope and set up a dirty league there and left the UCI sanctioned events clean.
Of course the dopers would then have to contend with a new generation of cheats trying to sneak eBikes into the drugs only league.
- Someone 9y ago”We don't need to "bring down" those who drink alcohol.” For a small set of sports, alcohol was on the banned substance list until last year (https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/2016-09-29_-_wada_prohibited_list_2017_eng_final.pdf https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files...) I think the fact that it makes you more relaxed is (thought to be) performance-enhancing in sports such as archery and shooting. It also was on the list in airplane, motorboat, and car racing. I think that was because of safety concerns. It still may be forbidden in archery in some competitions (https://worldarchery.org/news/153442/statement-wadas-withdrawal-alcohol-banned-substances-list https://worldarchery.org/news/153442/statement-wadas-withdra...)
- walrus01 9y agoChess has an anti doping policy: https://www.fide.com/fide/fide-anti-doping-regulations.html https://www.fide.com/fide/fide-anti-doping-regulations.html though I'm curious what sorts of nootropics or mental alertness drugs a grandmaster level player might be tempted to use. Adderal?
- Someone 9y agomodafinil and methylphenidate, possibly (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28119083 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28119083) I add “possibly” because the abstract mentions two effects: losing more time due to running out of time and playing better, and doesn’t discuss when one of them might be better.
- aaron695 9y agoModafinil was used competitivly in poker..... But I'd guess in part it would have been great at killing tells more than increasing math skills. I wonder if beta blockers have a use in chess for some players.