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To: discostu
Actually, what REALLY scares the daylights out of USADA and WADA is the development of PED's based on each athlete's own stem cells--which effectively makes them just about impossible to detect since with such a high level of PED customization, there is no standard just to find their use. For example, we could get stem cell-based PED's that could make it look exactly like the testosterone level was "naturally" raised, but was actually done by customized doping compound.

At that point, drug testing is essentially useless unless the athlete was using an older chemical PED that is easily detected nowadays.

21 posted on 06/08/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

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.


26 posted on 06/08/2016 10:12:43 AM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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