should they legalise performance enhancing drugs?

[bob_the_builder]

Christie' date=' I've often thought that!!
Its becoming very apparent just how many teams are losing their sponsors due to the negative image of doping. CSC, T-Mobile...its a problem the riders never considered.[/quote']

 

Ok, but the negative image is also due to the fact that doping is in many countries illegal, as in viewed as sporting fraud. Company's want to be associated with winners. Not with cheaters.

 

If doping is legalised, the negative stigma will disappear.

[Witrot]

Making doping legal will make it safer......that sounds nonsens to me!!!

 

Only ways to make a substance safer is by reducing the concentrations in the product. That would cause the effects of the drug to be less......will a doper want less of a substance to decrease his performance....no way at all. They will use more of the product to get same effect. 

 

The other way is changing the molecule, this would mean the molecule will not have such a big effect on performance or metabolic pathway.....meaning the doper will take more of the product as well.

[bob_the_builder]

Regardless of them being jucied ot the hill and it being "fake" those guys are still impressive with what they do and their cardio and flexibility being so big and all. I dig WWE it rocks!!!

 

That MX "wounds heal and chicks dig scars" mentality coming out there Colonel...

[bob_the_builder]

I often ask myself..."Just how did the cancer get there in the first place?!"

 

Easy' date='...

 

Moon rocks

 

He did walk on the moon !

[Jenna-lee]

Plenty of entertainment! I cant believe how much has come out of my question! But keep it up, i like it!

[Canaris]

Okay I have been out of the office today, and am to lazy to read all  25 pages.

Consider this:

Wine and beer would have been banned as performance enhancing, addictive and bad for you, if they were dicovered today, and put on the market, but these things have been with us for many years, and have become so embedded into our culture, they are socially accepted.  Somewhere, someone drew a line and said that certain things, like heroine, cocaine and others were not acceptable (they were over 100 years ago).  In sport it was realised that certain substances although able to give immediate performance results, had long term negative effects, and therefore the trade offs were too much even for sportsmen.  These things were banned.  (caffiene was one of them, but new research indicated that the trade off was not so bad, and it was subsequently unbanned)

THen some sportsmen discovered that you could mask these bad things, and in reaction these masking agents were also banned.

 

NOw you can buy over the counter drugs that do not actually improve your performance BUT ARE BANNED substances in SPORT.

 

To confuse the issue it was discovered that some drugs that were used as medicine also had certain performance enhancing characteristics.  Now sportsmen could take these to treat an "illness" and on informing WADA had then immunity from the "drug laws" for that medicine.  Amazing how many Euro pros have asthma, sensitive skins ext, all needing to be treated with such drugs (THey are almost as health as the Zimbabwe Defence and ZANU-PF Force when it comes to disability pensions).

 

So now you can be found giulty for a banned substance that you were not even aware you took (its was in the flu pills) and a pro can willfully take performance enhancers legally because he has asthma.

[Flemish Lion]

The above reminds me of an article I read not so long ago ... Sven Nijs (top Belgian cyclocrosser) stated that NO doctor certificates should be accepted by WADA ... stating if you're NOT 100% healthy you shouldn't be competing.

 

He's says at the drug checks ... the WADA officials always look at him surprised that he never hands them a doctor certificate ... unlike 90% of the field!! Pretty suspicious!!