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No. Also I do not think Olympic athletes should be tested. I once competed at a very high level in sports and the use of drugs is significantly higher then any
by throwaway30yo 9y ago
No.
Also I do not think Olympic athletes should be tested. I once competed at a very high level in sports and the use of drugs is significantly higher then anyone would expect. The difference was that the poorer countries only had access to old school steroids (testosterone, dbol, tren etc) while the richer countries had access to things which at the time were impossible to detect (GH, IGF-1, Research Peptides).
The effects of steroids specifically are seen many years after use, so unless you are testing the lifetime of an athlete the test is meaningless anyway.
2 twins, one does steroids for 2 years, one does not. The steroid user comes off of drugs for another 2 years, and still has a major advantage over the non-using athlete.
- fiftyacorn 9y agoThe problem is people respond differently to doping - and some people are hyper-responders An example being Lance Armstrong was considered a hyper-responder to his doping, and it put him at unfair advantage.
- dsacco 9y agoHow is being a hyper-responder meaningfully different from other genetic advantages that make a sport intrinsically unfair, like height?
- JamesBarney 9y agoMany people like to believe our choices are between letting the best drug infused athlete win, or the best drug free candidate win. But based on your comment and other readings I think that is a false choice, and the real choice is between letting the best drug infused athlete win, or letting the best athlete who can hide their drug use win. The difference between natty and enhanced body building is not drug use, but deception.
- vanillaboy 9y agoThe common man doesn't care about 'natty' bodybuilders, they look pathetic compared to stars like The Rock or Arnie or Stallone or whoever else is the icon of manly manliness who may be roided to the gills or won the genetic lottery or (probably) both. Bodybuilding is already a very niche thing that a lot of people don't even consider a sport in itself (should beauty contests be an olympic discipline too?).