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Monday, October 27, 2003
Drugs in Sport! The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
We’ve heard it all before. The Russians are taking performance enhancing drugs. The Germans are taking performance enhancing drugs.
The Americans? The English? The Australians?
Of course we’re taking performance enhancing drugs! Wake up people! If everyone is taking performance enhancing drugs – how can we possibly compete with them if we’re not doing the exact same thing? We can’t! But we do compete with them, and often beat them, and always have. There are first grade rugby league players at my hometown are on performance enhancing drugs. There’s no money involved with it, there’s not really much glory, there are very few perks. – and they feel they need to take them to win. What does this say about the professional teams? Of course their players are all on drugs. Why don’t we hear about them testing positive? For a few reasons: you can only test positive to something you’re being tested for; you can only test for something you know how to find; and you can only test for something that isn’t masked by another drug.
The AIS (Australian Insitute of Sport) nutritional information sessions for athletes – the first thing they teach you about is what drugs people take to improve their performance, the second thing they teach you about is what drugs to take to mask the performance enhancing drugs you’re taking – coincidence? Maybe – but I’m very very doubtful.
Samantha Riley. Dean Cappobianco. Shane Warne. Carl Lewis. Lindford Christie. Ben Johnson. Robbie O’Davis.
Drugs have been used in sport from the beginning of the Olympics. Heroin, caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, steroids have all been used at different times through the ages. The powers that be have never been serious about stamping out drugs in sport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) formed was only formed in 2000. (http://www.asda.org.au/media/history.htm)
Drugs will always be in sport – the question is – with almost all athletes on them – is it really worth trying to stamp them out?
We’ve heard it all before. The Russians are taking performance enhancing drugs. The Germans are taking performance enhancing drugs.
The Americans? The English? The Australians?
Of course we’re taking performance enhancing drugs! Wake up people! If everyone is taking performance enhancing drugs – how can we possibly compete with them if we’re not doing the exact same thing? We can’t! But we do compete with them, and often beat them, and always have. There are first grade rugby league players at my hometown are on performance enhancing drugs. There’s no money involved with it, there’s not really much glory, there are very few perks. – and they feel they need to take them to win. What does this say about the professional teams? Of course their players are all on drugs. Why don’t we hear about them testing positive? For a few reasons: you can only test positive to something you’re being tested for; you can only test for something you know how to find; and you can only test for something that isn’t masked by another drug.
The AIS (Australian Insitute of Sport) nutritional information sessions for athletes – the first thing they teach you about is what drugs people take to improve their performance, the second thing they teach you about is what drugs to take to mask the performance enhancing drugs you’re taking – coincidence? Maybe – but I’m very very doubtful.
Samantha Riley. Dean Cappobianco. Shane Warne. Carl Lewis. Lindford Christie. Ben Johnson. Robbie O’Davis.
Drugs have been used in sport from the beginning of the Olympics. Heroin, caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, steroids have all been used at different times through the ages. The powers that be have never been serious about stamping out drugs in sport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) formed was only formed in 2000. (http://www.asda.org.au/media/history.htm)
Drugs will always be in sport – the question is – with almost all athletes on them – is it really worth trying to stamp them out?
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