All this doping talk will be silly nonsense in the next 10 years. Doping will be allowed in all sports.
There was a time athletes had to be amateur and couldn’t get paid. An Olympic champ in 1912 lost his medals because he was a pro in a different sport.
Fans are tired of the drug accusations, times will change. Let’s face it, sports are more exciting when records are being smashed!
Bump this thread when it happens!
I guess your saying no more WADA? No more having to give samples in front of strangers? No more having to give blood several times a year? But you have find good jobs for lab people who would be out of work.
A rare reasonable post on LetsRun. While I think it'll take longer than 10 years, I think the final impetus to allow doping will be the financial collapse of the so-called "Olympic movement". Fewer & fewer companies will align themselves with sports that test vigorously, resulting in less money available for testing. Olympic sports, like athletics, will return to a semi-amateur basis due to lack of corporate sponsorships, and what little money will come into the sport will go back to being under-the-table payments. Good riddance to the current era, I say.
Javman wrote:
A rare reasonable post on LetsRun. While I think it'll take longer than 10 years, I think the final impetus to allow doping will be the financial collapse of the so-called "Olympic movement". Fewer & fewer companies will align themselves with sports that test vigorously, resulting in less money available for testing. Olympic sports, like athletics, will return to a semi-amateur basis due to lack of corporate sponsorships, and what little money will come into the sport will go back to being under-the-table payments. Good riddance to the current era, I say.
I'm not altogether against the idea. Totally fine with it for team sports...outside of some trickle down concerns.
Individual sports...the downside with modern science and technology is that it becomes a scientific competition rather than athletic one.
Sadly, I think you're right OP. Maybe they'll allow certain drugs and ban others.
This will not happen, because anti-doping is institutionalized. If you get rid of that, you get rid of jobs and profits reaped by companies involved in the testing.
It already has been.
Nothing has been done to the Jama Aden Group. They ban Salazar but word the report to specifically indicate the runners weren't doped. Christian Coleman got away with it. Etc, etc, etc.
Look at the times this year. 2:14 marathon this year. Multiple 2:01s. A 58 flat half marathon. Nijel Amos out of nowhere 1:41. Brazier 1:42. 3:51 in the women's 1500 and a bunch if 3:54s and 3:55s. WR 4:12 in the mile. A bunch of 14:20s
All doped, no consequences.
Doping is already legal.
It will never happen for the simple reason that doping kills a lot of people not to mention near always results in infertility too. There will always be people that rather not shoot stuff up or take testosterone that want to compete clean.
No way it happens. There would be too much liability for the sanctioning organization. Remember the early days of EPO when cyclists were dying right and left? If they allow doping they would face huge potential lawsuits from athletes who are physically harmed or killed by doping as the leagues no testing policy essentially made doping a requirement to compete.
Basement.Dweller.1 wrote:
All this doping talk will be silly nonsense in the next 10 years. Doping will be allowed in all sports.
There was a time athletes had to be amateur and couldn’t get paid. An Olympic champ in 1912 lost his medals because he was a pro in a different sport.
Fans are tired of the drug accusations, times will change. Let’s face it, sports are more exciting when records are being smashed!
Bump this thread when it happens!
I heard that in 2009, 1999, 1989, 1979.
Define "doping" and I'll agree with you. We already allowed a lot of things that enhance performance.
Basement.Dweller.1 wrote:
All this doping talk will be silly nonsense in the next 10 years. Doping will be allowed in all sports.
There was a time athletes had to be amateur and couldn’t get paid. An Olympic champ in 1912 lost his medals because he was a pro in a different sport.
Fans are tired of the drug accusations, times will change. Let’s face it, sports are more exciting when records are being smashed!
Bump this thread when it happens!
joedirt wrote:
No way it happens. There would be too much liability for the sanctioning organization. Remember the early days of EPO when cyclists were dying right and left? If they allow doping they would face huge potential lawsuits from athletes who are physically harmed or killed by doping as the leagues no testing policy essentially made doping a requirement to compete.
Yes, you and I know that, but idiots like the OP and the rest of supporters don't know an iota of the detriments on health when athletes dope. You see, they were born with a brain, but don't know how to use it, it's a painful process for them.
HGH has a lot of positives for human health. I suspect hormone/androgen therapy will become mainstream for the general populace in the next 30-40 years - especially as we age.
doctorj wrote:
Yes, you and I know that, but idiots like the OP and the rest of supporters don't know an iota of the detriments on health when athletes dope. You see, they were born with a brain, but don't know how to use it, it's a painful process for them.
[quote]Vancomycin wrote:
HGH has a lot of positives for human health. I suspect hormone/androgen therapy will become mainstream for the general populace in the next 30-40 years - especially as we age.
[quote]doctorj wrote:
+1
Spot on ! It's already here among those of us seniors who are enlightened.
Androgel in the A.M., And Viagara at night.
The same arguments against such use were used against marijuana, "a gateway drug" five years ago.
Could you argue that it is already unofficially legal among the big stars of the sport anyway?
behind the scenes wrote:
Could you argue that it is already unofficially legal among the big stars of the sport anyway?
Yes - unless you upset someone, see Kiprop and Coleman.
Jarmila Krotchilova wrote:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/06/18/sports/18RECORDBOOK01/18RECORDBOOK01-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
Shes more butch than my friend Butch and his bulldog, B eyatch.
behind the scenes wrote:
Could you argue that it is already unofficially legal among the big stars of the sport anyway?
The whole reason they have A and B samples is so that the shoe company can step in and pay the bribe to get the second sample to miraculously pass when their top athletes are caught. We saw it with Lance and we saw it with Lagat.
Given that no war on drugs approach has ever worked, in sport or otherwise, and that there has never been clean sport at the elite levels, this would make a lot of sense.
The posters who claim that jobs need to be given to those who work in labs, etc. - please.
