I often get the impression that nobody irl cares and just wants to see athletes do crazy sh*t.
I often get the impression that nobody irl cares and just wants to see athletes do crazy sh*t.
Nope. No dope.
Stoppit Smith wrote:
Nope. No dope.
Nobody cares about what you think.
Next, please.
No. No EPO.
Well without doping restrictions, countries will probably push athletes to dope from a young age, which is unethical, we don't understand the full affect these drugs could have.
The general public isn't the fandom of running, its runners themselves. The Barcelona marathon isn't going to be playing in your sports bar just because 3 guys will run sub 201
Doping doesn’t bother me. We talk about doping so much that the sport suffers.
Let people use science to get better performance. I think the majority of the public would agree.
I'd say 43%. A lot of people would be fine with allowed doping, but other non-running sports have stigmatized doping to the point that it won't have widespread acceptance.
Might as well, needs a seperate event... Echelon Games
They're already unofficially lifted. Look at the results of the 2019 World Championships. It was a pharmaceutical advertisement. Look at the Jama Aden group...caught red handed and we never heard another word about it. IAAF and WADA choose to look the other way.
Science?
So now we're switching the playing field?
So, exactly who is going to give Tim Montgomery, C.J.Hunter, Ben Johnson, and -especially - Marion Jones and Eddy Hellebuyck their lives back, just to name a few.
It seems like there is a lot of support for gender doping.
The thing to do isn’t to lift any rules, which itself will raise hackles. It’s to stop enforcing them so aggressively.
I said this the other day but it beats repeating: the vast majority of NFL fans don’t see anything strange about 250-lb linebackers running 4.4 in the 40 yard dash and lifting 225 lbs 30x. The NFL understands a fairly simple point most track fans don’t: it does not benefit anyone in the sport, or fans, to bar these 250-lb linebackers from playing, especially the high profile ones.
In terms of the NFL, I’m not a fan people who experience head trauma and CTE taking steroids. Seems like a dangerous combination.
For running, I could be convinced that pure blood doping should be allowed.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
Doping doesn’t bother me. We talk about doping so much that the sport suffers.
Let people use science to get better performance. I think the majority of the public would agree.
This.
All of our talk about doping does not actually decrease doping significantly. The NFL and the NBA understand this. They both have rules on the books and even occasionally enforce them, but that enforcement is sparing in frequency, relatively light in punishment, aimed at lower profile players, and/or kept pretty quiet.
When you say Christian Coleman can’t be in the 100m final, you’re saying someone else who has done the same things *but have not yet been caught* can take his place. But we do it anyway.
If the NFL bars, say, Aaron Donald can’t play because he tests positive for something, someone else similarly “enhanced” will take his place. So the NFL doesn’t generally bar such people
Typos galore above. Sorry, in a meeting for work lol
If you don't dope, you don't no-show three tests.
It's amazing what some of you will support just because you like Christian Coleman.
What any sport needs is more Tim Tebows.
Amen.