Answer 3 questions about our sports and the use of banned drugs

my take on this wrote:

That's ridiculous. 50% drugs cheats? Just rumor. You have no evidence that suggests its that high.

45% admit to it when asked anonymously. Thus it's at least 45%.

If I was an elite doper, I would never admit to it, even anonymously, so it's probably much higher that 45.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

(* this is not a peer-reviewed published study, and even if it were, there would be no guarantee that the figures were correct: one study does not prove anything.

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To back up my point, look at these recent results trying to confirm actual, PUBLISHED peer-reviewed studies:

Many failed when reproducing the results was attempted.

So this one, unpublished, not peer-reviewed SURVEY study you are now taking as 100% gospel???? The whole thing could be made up, or just badly done. You are believing what you want to believe.

my take on this wrote:

http://universalsports.com/2015/08/20/outgoing-iaaf-president-believes-99-percent-of-athletes-are-clean/

200 out of 3000 tested positive. You do the math and tell me which post is in the ball park. I have seen no better "evidence".

simon stitchworthington wrote:

and likewise what is your evidence it is as low as 5%?! What do you base your assumptions off - oh right so you play devils advocate and make it as low as conceivably possible and by de facto its more accurate?

You can f#@k right off mate - what a twit.

The amount of abnormal blood values in running is higher than in cycling in the lance boom, which is around 10-15%. Do we really believe that 1 out of 10 riders were on drugs? Its obviuosly much higher and if you factor in only winners, its damn near 100%.

my take on this wrote:

Bottom line: NOBODY KNOWS!!

Let's improve testing - frequency and type.

While I agree more testing is needed, the IAAF has access to all scores and can tell quite easily with the athlete's whereabouts records who is and isn't doping.

They are permitting the doping.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

Hey Mr Reader, since you are in the business of correcting people how about this: you absolutely do not know that "certainly... the real number" of doping athletes is "higher" than the 1/3 of athletes who supposedly* admitted to doping in that study.

Yes I do.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

(* this is not a peer-reviewed published study, and even if it were, there would be no guarantee that the figures were correct:

Being peer reviewed and published is not a necessary condition for something being accurate.

This objection is irrelevant.

Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:

one study does not prove anything.

Yes it does.

Cool.

That has nothing to do with answering the simple question of "Have you used illegal PEDs within the last 12 months?"

Again, being peer reviewed and published is not a necessary condition for something being accurate.

This objection is irrelevant.

No.

As I wrote, the real number is certainly higher.

Considering 1/3 of medalists at world championships in the past 10 years have recently been busted by retroactive testing, it seems that that's unlikely.

No, that would be Mr. only 5% of top athletes dope.