I guess High School Doping Is A Reality

Doping and drug abuse is not the same, but there’s an overlap. Sad to hear about in both cases.

Cocaine isn’t considered to be a PED, and your elite runner is more likely to be a drug addict than a cheater. If a runner needs a snort to run his race, he should be ready for rehab.

Smelling salts would be my guess.

Cocaine is considered a stimulant and is on wada’s list of banned in-competition substances.

I used to snort preworkout in high school before swimming races. I think it actually hindered my performances though because I often was more worried about having a heart attack than my times. I doubt the kid was ripping coke with adults aware of it, especially a half hour before a race.

Cocaine is primarily considered to be a “substance of abuse”. There are no studies that suggest cocaine can enhance performance in distance running and is fact, dangerous to ingest before races. It’s ludicrous that someone would take a snort for an advantage in a race, and if he did, it would be in a restroom and not out in the open.

Don't stop them from their fantasy land of some kid snorting coke with their parent/coke present to help them with it before their race near the track.

I would find it way more likely that a high schooler was snorting something innocuous because their uncle’s friend’s neighbor (who used to be fast back in the day, mind you) told them to. Preworkout, a nasal decongestant, vitamin powder, (??)…something that was useless, possibly potentially harmful but otherwise insignificant. High schoolers are constantly amazing me with the ideas (ie shortcuts) they come up with to try and be fast. Not trying to discount the very real and prevalent issue of PED use issue at virtually every level in the sport, I just think you will spot that playing out in a different way, and statistically I’m going to assume the likelihood of a kid being silly is much, much higher than strategic PED/drug use. Especially in the way you saw it. But hey I guess anything is possible.

Did anyone say the athlete in question was a distance runner? Stimulants could be a very powerful enhancer for sprints and field events.

Can you find any studies that indicate cocaine can be a powerful enhance for sprints and field events? I’ve never heard of an athlete getting busted for it with after race testing.

I dont think that athlete is doping,but judging by your description,theres another problem there.

On this topic- are high school kids ever tested?

Some things lately have me wondering.

Would you bet your life that he ingested a banned substance? if I witnessed what you say you did, I wouldn’t even bet your life.