MARION JONES TELLS THE TRUTH, THEREFORE SHE IS GUILTY

Tower of Power were not crap.

Monty

You said;

"normally" - but not always. I normally do my workouts Monday/Thursday, but sometimes I might only do one on Wednesday. Besides, they already had broader inclusion rules with their "analogues" and "mimetics", so they didn't previously individually list every last substance banned.

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Given the significance of THG it would expected that it was now directly named.

Mimics and analogues ,again only some are banned,but we dont know which.

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You said;

Do they ban those substances found in contraceptives absolutely or just when they appear above a certain level (presumably determined to be higher than what being on the pill would produce)? Same with caffeine, when it was banned. Didn't say you couldn't have any caffeine in you, just not about 10 times more than you could possibly ingest through coffee.

I say.

They just dont ban them even though they are mimics or analogues.Now do you get the point.

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You said;

Not being a chemistry major, are all steroids chemically or phamacologically related to all other steroids? I'd guess not, but could be proven wrong.

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Yes ,exactly so.The definition of a steriod incs Cholesterol .Most/many of the contraceptives are virtualy identical.

It gets more strange ;Gestrinone is banned but is not even an anabolic steroid,it is for womb problems.

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You say;

Playing devil's advocate then, what kind of legit scenario do you have where two people who could neither read nor write would be in a position to ingest or inject pharmacological agents specifically intended to improve their performances illicitly? What measures would you take to ensure that those people who play fair do not have to line up against those who knowingly or unknowingly are cheating? Why should their rights to a fair competition take a backseat? Hence why we have strict liability.

I say;

The problem with strict liability is that you have to have great knowledge to avoid banned products.Eg.Vics is OK in Europe but not in the US.There is a comment from lawyers from the governing bodies that a professional athlete has the skill and resourses to understand the WADA regs.I am not sure that this is the case BUT the majority of those tested are NOT professional.Thus, how do they have the time and resources to be correctly informed.

The measures to ensure fairness would to have each case treated on its merits and thus water down strict liability.This is exactly what the biggest sport in the world,soccer,has done.

To unknowingly cheat is an oxymoron.

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Exactly what the f*** has that to do with Marion Jones?

Joel_AnnArbor wrote:

It's very ironic that so many people are up in arms with plans to let transgender individuals compete in the Olympics when such a large portion of the ladies competing have already completed the hormone portion of a gender reassignment. Of course, their reassignment is from women to men. The transgenders will have less testosterone in their systems than the so called "regular ladies".