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A-ROID - should drugs in sports be legal?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:57 am
by QuartzGooner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americ ... 87.stm?lss
Baseball star Alex Rodriguez has admitted steroid use.
World Champion Boxer Shane Mosley recently admitted using performance enhancing drugs.
Barry Bonds, another baseball star, has been charged with lying to a grand jury about his denial of using steroids.
Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Linford Christie, Dwayne Chambers, Tim Montgomery and many other track athletes have all used performance enhancing drugs.
Not to mention countless field athletes, cyclists, and weightlifters.
Bodybuilding is rife with performance enhancing drugs.
Has the time come to have world sporting governing bodies make performance enhancing drugs legal in sport,
as long as their use is prescribed and monitored by doctors and coaches?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:55 am
by northbankbren
Very good question quartz, i have had this discussion many times with friends.
What would be best?
All drugs allowed, where it essentially comes down to the best chemist.?
The funding that goes into testing increases in order to stay on top of the growing number of ways to beat the system being created.?
24 Hour checks?
Sadly until the rules are clear, and the testing system works there is nothing that can be done.
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:08 am
by Belfast Boy
Absolutely not IMO - I have done extensive research on steroids both Anabolic and Androgenic and sport is supposed to be one man/woman against another and in football is already losing some of it's innocence due to, as AW refers to it "financial doping"!
To legalise gear surely begs the question where would it all end as even the tightest regs would be open to abuse but mainly think of the kids, steriod use is rife in college football in the States, and the dangers posed to adolescents by these drugs are infinitely worse than adults!
I suppose the most well known example but by no means the worst would be Petra Schneider, the East German swimmer who beat our very own (and gorgeous
) Sharron Davies at the '80 Olympics into 2nd place by 10 seconds
but later found out there would be a heavy price to pay when years later as a fully grown adult she was told she had the reproductive system of an 11yr old!
There was also long held and eventually proved well founded suspicion that drugs were bein used to suppress the natural release of hormones in young female gymnasts across the Eastern Bloc to artificially keep them pre-pubescent for the means of competition
When the state-run doping programme was fully exposed following the re-unification of Germany it was also revealed that several female athletes and I assume it would have been the power sports were Androgenic steroids were the drug of choice have actually had to start living as men as they have experienced extreme virilization probably due to heavy use of Androgens!
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:56 am
by DB10GOONER
Yeah, but does it make them sexy?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:06 am
by Belfast Boy
To some of our more "colourful" members???
I wouldn't be suprised
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:08 am
by DB10GOONER
Belfast Boy wrote:To some of our more "colourful" members???
I wouldn't be suprised
It's ok. You can write it. You mean Gus and Rebel, right?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:15 am
by Belfast Boy
ok ok - you got me
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:17 am
by DB10GOONER
Belfast Boy wrote:ok ok - you got me
Just pray they never "get" you!!
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:07 am
by RaM
Is it legal to take too much estrogen???
Someone should check that Christiano Ronaldo "bloke" for that....
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:48 pm
by rodders999
I'd pay top dollar to see an athlete run the 100 metres in 3 seconds and then spontaniously combust as he goes over the finish line!!!
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:56 pm
by DB10GOONER
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:53 pm
by SPUDMASHER
DB10GOONER wrote:Yeah, but does it make them sexy?
Been watching the rugby again mate ?:roll:
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:57 pm
by DB10GOONER
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:00 pm
by SPUDMASHER
I assume from what you're saying then that it is one of Rebels favourite sports
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:05 pm
by DB10GOONER
SPUDMASHER wrote:
I assume from what you're saying then that it is one of Rebels favourite sports
He fucking lives for it!!
