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The weak use meds wrote:
If Rupp had a high threshold for pain he wouldn’t need to be the most medicated person in the entire sport.
To quote the big lebowski,
"Yeah, well, ahhh, thats just, you know, your opinion, man."
Bullet_Proof wrote:
The weak use meds wrote:
If Rupp had a high threshold for pain he wouldn’t need to be the most medicated person in the entire sport.
To quote the big lebowski,
"Yeah, well, ahhh, thats just, you know, your opinion, man."
Am I supposed to pay for every carpet that gets micturated on in this town?
This is very ironic....Magness and Goucher are USADA's top 2 witnesses against Salazar....USADA now are going after Thyroid/Grey Area users....Magness and Goucher have been on Thyroid Meds since before they met Salazar...
Daily Mail wrote:The man who brought down Lance Armstrong (Travis Tygart)
Please change to "the man who covered up sexual abuse and protected sex offenders in US Swimming." There are worse things than doping; this guy is just out to make a name for himself.
Armstronglivs wrote:
In tennis, for example, there are an astonishing number of players who claim an asthmatic condition. Inhalers are a stimulant. Asthmatics - genuine asthmatics - generally have very poor "wind". You wouldn't think that was a problem for elite athletes. A lot of cyclists use them also.
It's not all TUE abuse. It's likely exercise induced asthma is commonly undiagnosed in the general population. Most people who have it will never exercise vigorously enough to trigger it, so most won't get diagnosed. This in turn means a seemingly disproportionate percentage of elite athletes will get the diagnosis.
My guess is the percentage of elite athletes with a legit asthma TUE is nonetheless less than 10% though and that's being generous.
they should ban food next, it makes people perform well when calories are consumed
ohia wrote:
they should ban food next, it makes people perform well when calories are consumed
This. And shoes as well.
There is absolutely no reason why safe, legal drugs should be banned. Advances in technology should help athletes improve and continue raising the bar for athletics and human performance. That is what keeps sports interesting.
Especially in the case of injury. If safe, legal drugs keep athletes injury free, this makes athletics a much better sport. Nothing worse than the best athletes in the world being kept out injured.
Instead of limiting the use of these safe, legal meds, they should focus instead of making them as available as possible so everyone has access to them. The only case where drugs should be banned is if they are harmful long-term to your health.
YAWN!!! Time to move on Rojo. Your bias is just pathetic at this point.
Tygart's entire premise in this article is questionable...
Every medication on the WADA banned list has a therapeutic use in the medical field. For example, "EPO" (or Epoetin alfa) is used ALL the time in patients with chronic kidney disease to increase RBC count by stimulating the kidneys' RBC production. These drugs (like EPO) end up on the banned list because WADA has ruled that they provide an unfair advantage to athletes. Thus, if an athlete has a genuine need for the medication, they have to file a therapeutic use exemption. EPO rightfully should be banned for an athlete to use, the evidence is there.
But, the issue all just boils down (again) to what is placed on the banned list and what is not. It really is as simple as that. WADA has ruled several times that there is no evidence that medications like thyroxine cause a performance enhancing effect for athletes, but it seems that Tygart has a bone to pick and brings up this issue every year or two because WADA's view didn't align with his.
Life happens and people need medication, there is no utopia out there where athletes aren't going to run into the same health issues as everybody else. Should anti-depressants be banned because they make an athlete's mood positive enough to get out the door and train daily? Sure, people are going to abuse the system, and WADA/USADA should come up with a system to distinguish who is abusing medication and who has a genuine need... but like the above poster said, it does seem that athletes are going to "uncover" underlying predispositions to chronic illness that the average population may not. Your average Joe may never know they have exercise-induced asthma, because they've never exerted themselves further than walking into their office building, or heading up a flight of stairs.
Same story, new article. Time to move on.
More impossible ambitions from the drug control industry.
They will want to be banning excessive training and bio mechanical help next.
And what about surgery that would not be deemed acceptable if it was not for competition.
Empire building and at what cost and at what impossibility in third world countries.
Fortunately Jon Orange is just putting the finishing touches on his " drugs don't work" manifesto.
They're probably still doping though wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
In tennis, for example, there are an astonishing number of players who claim an asthmatic condition. Inhalers are a stimulant. Asthmatics - genuine asthmatics - generally have very poor "wind". You wouldn't think that was a problem for elite athletes. A lot of cyclists use them also.
It's not all TUE abuse. It's likely exercise induced asthma is commonly undiagnosed in the general population. Most people who have it will never exercise vigorously enough to trigger it, so most won't get diagnosed. This in turn means a seemingly disproportionate percentage of elite athletes will get the diagnosis.
My guess is the percentage of elite athletes with a legit asthma TUE is nonetheless less than 10% though and that's being generous.
The whole idea of an exemption for exercise-induced asthma seems strange. My muscles get tired if I run too intensely. As others pass me, it seem to detect that they are perhaps less impacted by this than I am. Can I get a TUE to help me reduce this exercise-induced fatigue?
If a person's lungs can't handle intense exercise, then that person can't handle intense exercise.
Follow the thyroid medication...
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-thyroid-replacement-a-performance-enhancing-drug/
NOP and other groups have been using this (and other similiar legal medications) for many many years now. This isn't news to me, but then again maybe I'm a bit more connected than others.
Rojo can you ask Shalane about thyroid and if she is on the medication? Would be interested to know.
Funny coming from Travis Tygart. Wasn't he the guy that was addicted to opiods?
lkjlk wrote:
Funny coming from Travis Tygart. Wasn't he the guy that was addicted to opiods?
I've never heard that before - where did you hear this?
yeah whatever my athletes are clean
How many masters athletes still performing at a high level have "Low T" and see a men's clinic for prescriptions? Cycling keeps popping the guys that are not savvy enough to get a TUE. I bet running and triathlon are chock full of aging champions with feelings of lethargy, depression, and semi flaccid members that need daily testosterone treatments.
Isn’t this article a few years too late?