Why are you posting pics of Eddie Murphy in a wig?
Posted on 06/08/2016 8:59:41 AM PDT by simpson96
At that point, drug testing is essentially useless unless the athlete was using an older chemical PED that is easily detected nowadays.
Yep. There is a constant cat and mouse game going on between the chemists who manufacture, tweak and modify the PEDS, the chemists who advise those who write the rules and the chemists who create the drug tests.
On a practical level there really aren’t other means, I suppose there’s a chance somebody could catch them with the drug in a clearly marked bottle in their locker. The problem with banning something you can’t detect is that’s basically announcing to the athletes you govern that this substance works, since there’s at least 10 rumored things that accomplish nothing for every 1 that does something clearing that picture up for them is counter productive. MLB ran into that problem when they banned certain “cleaners” (things that remove traces of other stuff from your pee), by doing that they functionally announced that those cleaners actually work and they became very popular for athletes of sports that hadn’t gone down that hole yet.
There was an article recently about them retesting samples from a previous Olympics (2008?). There were some new positives, but I don’t remember if any were American.
All hail Freedonia!
Performance enhancers are advanced enough now that the sports should seriously consider giving up, they’re losing the race, the fans by and large don’t care, and many of the enhancers are focused on recovery and it’s a really tough argument that the sport is better served having star players out injured longer. It might just be time for the sports to admit that their athletes have the same basic relationship to us NASCAR has to the cars we drive, which is basically none.
Beauty and the Tranny.
2 years = she’s done with tennis.
“Good genetics’ is in the eye of the beholder. ;-)”
One will thrill you. One will kill you.
Why are you posting pics of Eddie Murphy in a wig?
“Two words - Lance Armstrong”
The very epitome of the age old advice, “deny, deny,’ deny, especially when you are guilty as hell.”
A lot of big profile cases have come about because they were caught with out testing. I think you probably have to be really dumb to get caught with actual testing. If they really wanted to stop it they should maybe set up bounties for actual proof.
Freegards
That’s why Serena locked herself in her house and has refused and hidden from the man when they’ve come to take a random sample for testing in the past. If you look into it she went to great lengths to not take drug tests as mandated by the Tennis/sports associations tasked with monitoring players.
LMAO
Not very Christian...
Two years without her shrieking.
There’s balco, and that Florida “clinic”, those make big waves. But most get caught in testing... well most of the ones who get caught. In the sports where people get caught the most (cycling, and track, where all trophies are now lent) it’s because they hold samples for years so that testing has a chance to catch up.
Two years without her shrieking.
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My first thought. I had to watch her with the TV sound on ‘mute’.
I know, right?
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