Foo - Drugs in Sport

Wait till you hear this!

Tennis pro Greg Rusedski is found to have taken nandrolone on a double positive. Next, he goes up in front of the ATP (governing body of tennis). He gets cleared and receives no ban. Why? because the drugs containing the nandrolone were supplied by ......the ATP!

What a f****ng joke! Cycle sport gets a rough deal from the mainstream media over drug use, but this takes the biscuit. Can you imagine a rider being caught taking drugs, that were supplied by the UCI, and then receiving no ban?

Highly unlikely.

Why was he given the drugs? This might be like when Ruby Fox wasn't allowed to shoot in the Oylmpics one year because of a perscription drug. I'm not sure where we should draw the line. If you take beta blockers for heart trouble the Oylmpic foxs will not let you shoot because it lowers your heart rate thus making you more stable.

Joe

I say allow professional athletes to take whatever drugs they want. It's pretty much a freak show anyway, let 'em go all the way. It won't change my view of professional sport one iota.

Can anyone say 'GELF'?

Could it have been for recovery from injury? This has happened in other sports as steroid type products are best for recovery of injuries.

I say allow professional athletes to take whatever drugs they want. It's pretty much a freak show anyway, let 'em go all the way. It won't change my view of professional sport one iota.

Can anyone say 'GELF'?

Then it will encourage kids to take them. No keep them illeagle, but remember what Malestrom said about injury (I had a friend that had to take them for poison ivy) and I just said about Ruby Fox and let's be reasonable.

Joe

Nope, the drugs weren't for rehab from injury or anythying like that. He was found with nandrolone (a steriod) in his system. Thre months earlier, he was supplied with an 'energy drink' by the ATP. The nandrolone was in the drink.

Then it will encourage kids to take them. No keep them illeagle, but remember what Malestrom said about injury (I had a friend that had to take them for poison ivy) and I just said about Ruby Fox and let's be reasonable.

Joe

Why is it that whenever the question of legalising drugs comes up, someone brings up the ol' 'it'll encourage kids to take them' strawman.

Cigarrettes and alcolhol aren't legal for kids, why would any other drug be different?

Kids don't make their choices about drugs because of their legallity one way or the other. A responsible attitude to drugs come from a sound education, and that is primarily the responsibility of the parents.

And it's about time there was some sort of recognition of the difference between drug use and drug abuse.

But this is all totally beside the point.

Back to sports people. Anyone that is so desperate to win at all costs is pretty screwed up anyway and lost all sight of what sport is really about (a view shared, by the way, with sports 'fans' and the sports media). Let 'em abuse themselves however they want - it's not like they're not doing it anyway. Even some of the training regiments these people put themselves through could classify as self abuse. Legalising it might at least provide the opportunity to make the drugs safer with cleaner products and proper medical supervision, and allow them to reach their full physical and chemical potential with minimal harmful side effects.

Besides, the freakier the freakshow gets, the more people will tune in to watch, and that's what professional sport is really all about - extracting more money from the spectators. The more spectators, the more money.

Why is it that whenever the question of legalising drugs comes up, someone brings up the ol' 'it'll encourage kids to take them' strawman.

Cigarrettes and alcolhol aren't legal for kids, why would any other drug be different?

Kids don't make their choices about drugs because of their legallity one way or the other. A responsible attitude to drugs come from a sound education, and that is primarily the responsibility of the parents.

And it's about time there was some sort of recognition of the difference between drug use and drug abuse.

But this is all totally beside the point.

Back to sports people. Anyone that is so desperate to win at all costs is pretty screwed up anyway and lost all sight of what sport is really about (a view shared, by the way, with sports 'fans' and the sports media). Let 'em abuse themselves however they want - it's not like they're not doing it anyway. Even some of the training regiments these people put themselves through could classify as self abuse. Legalising it might at least provide the opportunity to make the drugs safer with cleaner products and proper medical supervision, and allow them to reach their full physical and chemical potential with minimal harmful side effects.

Besides, the freakier the freakshow gets, the more people will tune in to watch, and that's what professional sport is really all about - extracting more money from the spectators. The more spectators, the more money.

I agree on the use and abuse statement, as I said they might be for a reason like injury or poison ivy etc.

It's the crazy parents that encourage kids to try too hard. I see that when I coach my 4H rifle team and when I helped coach girls softball, so if you are looking for parents teach common sense about sports and "it not all about winning" Things are different there than here.

I don't care if no one ever watches another sporting event! So I'm not into making it more freakish. I think it is better to watch a sport you play at i.e. I ride a bike so sometimes I watch a little bike racing. No I'll never but the time in to compete, espically at that level, but I can enjoy seeing some one that does work that hard. But if I thought I was watching a freak on drugs I wouldn't bother. I find it scarry that there are a lot that would like it - reminds me of the story of the quizz show type set up but when criminals we turned loose to be chased and killed on TV for the watchers amusment.

Joe