Drug Testing At NXN (HS XC Team Championship)

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9 years ago 09/10/2014 3:35am EDT

re: Link

Link wrote:
1 in 3 high school football players in Texas are on steroids.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spe/2005/steroids/
Is XC cleaner? Probably. Should we assume it's clean because they're just kids? No way.
Oh? wrote:
Are you joking?
Not that I'm against drug testing, but just what program do you think is dirty?

I wasn't suggesting there weren't any kids that could possibly be using. I was suggesting that it's probably not prevalent on a team basis, and would suggest that it is very likely MUCH more rare than a sport like Football. (not the least of which being that strength-based PEDs are probably the easiest to come by, which wouldn't do much for an XC runner)

9 years ago 09/10/2014 8:29am EDT

re: Seyta

I just don't buy it, high schools test for illicit drugs, not PEDs. I'm sorry people complain on here about kids age cheating with circumstantial evidence, well this kid's folks (who were professional athletes) came basically from mother russia(some eastern block country), during the heart of its doping era. If anyone has knowledge/access to the sauce it'd be them. I mean come on, he could hardly hold five minute mile pace in a college XC race, just too slow to only be tired... probably on a break from the sauce...

9 years ago 09/10/2014 8:59am EDT

re: the truth will imprison you

That would be inadequate. There needs to be out of competition testing for top HS runners.

9 years ago 09/10/2014 11:28am EDT

re: Jeeze, lay off NXN

Jeeze, lay off NXN wrote:
It doesn't matter since it's misnamed already and is a joke race regarded as just a company advertising jamboree for children.

Yeah, that showdown with Efraimson, Cranny and Baxter last year was such a joke race.

9 years ago 09/10/2014 3:12pm EDT

re: Deadman Running

Well said about Efraimson, Cranny, Baxter... that was probably the best up-front HS XC race in America since Ritz, Webb and Hall. And there's no question that the great majority of the best teams take NXN pretty seriously.

As far as dope testing, both of my kids have run at NXN and they would not care if testing was added. 99% of the runners would just think 'it does not affect me, and if there are a few dopers, it'll be good if they're caught'.

9 years ago 09/17/2014 7:37pm EDT

re: Oh?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6021211

Oh? wrote:
the truth will imprison you wrote:
Given the prestige and monetary reward via scholarships to do well at NXN, do you feel drug testing is warranted?
I suspect the girls' field is 100% clean or very very close. I don't believe the boys' field is 100% clean. Maybe 95% for the boys.
Do Nike and the NFHS really want clean sport, or do they just want a pretty show?
Discus.
Are you joking?
Not that I'm against drug testing, but just what program do you think is dirty?

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