Oi! I posted this earlier today!
But I have no problem if drugs are used. I can't really see any justification for the ban. It's not as if athletes don't use all kinds of performance-enhancers anyway (food, equipment and so on); and it's not as if drug use is a substitute for training and genetic luck. It might make the difference between the odd tenth of a second in a sprint, but you have to be bloody good already for it to matter.
If there's anything wrong with using performance-enhancers, it's that it's against the rules, and so cheating. But that won't tell us that the rules are necessary, or that anything would be lost by changing them. Athletes would probably gain, in fact: they'd at the very least be able to minimise the health risks.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 16:33,
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yeah
there's nothing like a spate of amphetamine induced heart attacks to inspire a generation
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I'd like to see a 'doped' games just to see how far it's possible to go
but I don't think you can say it wouldn't add a definite advantage.
1976 east German swim team?
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JeremyBeadlesHands, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 19:23,
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