dad bod wrote:
If an MD diagnoses you with a condition, how can you call it doping?
First of all, hats off to Kevin Castille for an incredible performance. In the absence of any evidence at all that he is on anything (even a TUE), let's celebrate a further advance in what our species is capable of.
But if your condition is what anyone else on the planet outside the USA calls "aging", and the MD you see is an "anti-aging specialist", who says they can diagnose you with "low testosterone levels" by some standard of theirs and prescribe you testosterone and speed you up again, you're cheating. I think most serious masters athletes know this, but there are probably a few "middle aged men in lycra" taking advantage of it.
Two other general points of information:
1. Masters very rarely get tested. Testing is expensive, people MIGHT be tested at races, but I have never heard of any NADO doing out-of-competition tests and certainly not of anyone being on bio passport programmes.
2. TUEs are submitted for approval. Has any master even submitted one for testosterone, and has one ever been granted by the national body? I sincerely hope they would look hard at these and turn them down unless it was a serious medical issue.