Hmmm

You’re telling me. Pictures of a monitor?

And all he’s done as the DH is hit strong home run slams all over the baseball yard.

They really haven’t drawn a line. Some athletes are allowed to use banned drugs and others are not.

You are taking my comment way too literally. The point is to have a line, either it’s legal or not, and no exemptions. The line will always be arbitrary. All our sports rules are arbitrary. WADA can go down your list, consult with athletes, and say yay or nay to any of those things.

Just because they need them for legitimate medical reasons doesn’t mean they don’t offer a performance benefit. Beyond that, there’s no bright line test for what a legitimate medical need is for many of these drugs. Some doctors are more liberal than others.

It’s fine, like caffeine. I realize this contradicts my last paragraph

I draw the line because evidence shows that the prevelance of conditions that are treated by drugs that offer a performance benefit is wayyy higher in athletes than in the general population. Additionally, a few whistleblowers have described the process by which they fake conditions to get TUEs. That’s enough evidence…

I’m not disputing that some athletes have advantages over others. I don’t think drug use should be one of them.

I’m actually a competitive athlete. This conversation has been going on for years, just read fittish.

Right, part of being a professional athlete is being able to cope with and recover from training. If your drugs help you train harder than the athlete without them you have a competitive advantage.

The prevalence of TUEs is a real story. It’s not about doping per se, but can we at least admit there’s a problem when over half of the very best athletes in the world - presumably pinnacles of health in the prime of their careers - need theraputic use exemptions because they’re just so goddamn unhealthy?

Everyone…

E: misread the post

It’s not just the power meters, it’s also the doofus in the team car telling him to push harder, back off, and when to attack. The Olympic road race was fantastic because they didn’t have radios.

The police used surveillance video and the cooperation of the driver to identify the Sorrell brothers as the shooters.

I’ll add one more item in the “She might not be doping” category: She wasn’t nearly as competitive in the 5000, which is what you would expect from someone who ran balls to the wall in a 10k several days earlier.

I’m so glad that Ashley landed here

No offense to Diana, but there are people with a better understanding of the physiology at play and the sport that have pitched in more nuanced takes. Ross Tucker and Joanna Harper (an intersex woman) for instance.

The problem with just allowing doping in sport is that the primary drugs, testosterone and EPO, do harm if taken too much. So then you’ve got a choice of setting a limit or going completely bloodsport. With the first option you’ve got the same problem as today: How do you know if people pass the limit? With the second…

Can I tell you about the marathon I’m training for? It’s in 6 weeks and then I’m going to Oktoberfest

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