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everybody will have SOME naturally or legally allowed amount of tested substance; etc. Which means that I cannot get excited that ANYbody at olympic level is do
by dfxm12 6y ago
everybody will have SOME naturally or legally allowed amount of tested substance; etc. Which means that I cannot get excited that ANYbody at olympic level is doing it "on their own, unassisted, natural", for whatever definition of above we take.
But at that level, everyone is operating under the same rules. That's just the nature of competition, no? People will take any edge they can while following the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
Hell, even in the context of "on their own, unassisted", some countries directly support their Olympic athletes in terms of training, coaching and facilities, while other athletes have to pay out of pocket for that sort of thing and figure it out on their own and thus are more "unassisted", but there are no rules about that...
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is that the rules are applied justly & transparently.
- hutzlibu 6y ago"But at that level, everyone is operating under the same rules" No they are not. In reality it means, the athlete with the better chemist behind him, meaning the one with the not yet traceble substance, will win.
- llsf 6y agoI worked a swimming pool decades ago, and saw parents giving their pre-teen kids some drugs like Guronsan (https://www.drugs.com/international/guronsan.html https://www.drugs.com/international/guronsan.html) before swimming competition. It might be legal, but it was sending the wrong signal to those kids. That a pill could give them a boost or an edge.