He will now postpone his pro career for a couple years at Rowan University.
He will now postpone his pro career for a couple years at Rowan University.
ShoeTubersHaveNoEthics wrote:
It's pretty simple if you professionalize youth sports, which we have done with things like travel leagues, NIL deals, etc, you're going to get the same incentives to dope that you do in professional sports. Actually, one could argue that the incentive to dope in youth sports is higher than in pro sports because parents pressure the kid to deliver a "return on the investment." It's pretty ironic that everyone is chasing a college scholarship but few realize that they spend as much on travel leagues as the cost of a quality public college education.
And of course the same dynamics exist in running. Seth Clevenger and the NCAA fiasco is but the tip of the iceberg.
This guy does anything to bring up Clevenger. How many names is he using?
As far as this kid goes, does he have a real agent? If so, he should be looked into as the likely supplier.
Now if only Philadelphia Marathon would cancel their contract with Jim Estes!
Study Says Steroid Use Common Among High-School Students
January 18, 1989
One in fifteen male high-school seniors uses or has used steroids, the first national study of adolescent use of the potentially dangerous drugs has found.
The study, which appeared in the Dec. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, indicated that 6.64 percent of the 3,403 12th-grade boys surveyed in 46 public and private schools had tried or were currently using steroids, which build muscle tissue. Approximately two-thirds of the users said they intended to participate on a school sports team.
Applying that percentage to the entire population, the researchers estimated that between 250,000 and 500,000 teenage boys have been involved with the drugs.
A growing body of medical evidence suggests that steroids can cause heart disease, sexual and reproductive disorders, immune deficiencies, stunted growth, liver problems, and overly aggressive behavior.
More than one-third of the users said they had first tried steroids by the age of 15; another third had done so by their 16th birthday.
The study indicated that most students purchased the drugs in the “black market"--from other athletes or coaches or in gymnasiums.
As Drunk Rojo wrote:
Makes ya wonder how many 13 year olds are on EPO. 🧐
I sometimes think young cyclists can effect their future "biological passport" by doping early in life so later in life their numbers look normal for them.