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It's about safety, really - most performance-enhancing drugs are detrimental to the body of the enhanced. If someone eats lots of potatoes and that gives them
by wavemode 3y ago
It's about safety, really - most performance-enhancing drugs are detrimental to the body of the enhanced.
If someone eats lots of potatoes and that gives them the energy to perform well at soccer, their performance was certainly "enhanced" by a "substance", but nobody would care.
- shermantanktop 3y agoInteresting performance enhancement approach. I’m pretty sure I have been testing that accidentally, and I’m no Messi…yet.
- saiya-jin 3y agoYes, but society generally doesn't like liars and certainly doesn't seem appropriate for them to live in luxury. And what is doping if not lying about your actual skills, efforts put into training and your mostly genetical limits
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- TheCondor 3y agoThey can be dangerous, properly administered they tend not to be. In the early part of the epo era, a number of lesser pros and amateurs killed themselves by thickening their blood with epo. Most of the serious dopers are still incredible specimens without much in the way of negative physical effects, they all had doctors monitoring them though. The psychological aspects have possibly been more dangerous than the chemicals,
- ip26 3y agoThey slept with their heart monitors on. And they set an alarm to sound if their heart rates dropped below a certain level. On hearing the alarm, you then got up out of bed, got onto your bike [...] and pedalled for ten minutes to re-start your circulation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xdpbnd/he-just-wanted-to-take-more-drugs-than-anyone-else https://www.vice.com/en/article/xdpbnd/he-just-wanted-to-tak... How is that not a negative physical effect?