Are these organizations going overboard with what substances they're banning? It seems weird someone could use something for years, and then it's banned.
look at the eyes of ANY top US sprinter in the minutes before a race and you will clearly see they are on something.
I have no idea how US athletes continue to get away with it.
Apparently they just stay a step ahead of what’s being banned.
If it were up to me i’d take blood, nail and hair samples from every top 5 winner and keep them on file for future testing (when whatever they are on and banned at a later date). If such a system was implemented I suspect nearly every record for the past 40 years+ would be overturned.
It’s actually pretty typical. The dopers generally run ahead of the agencies. The agencies always have to deal with 2 problems: first figuring out if said substance actually does enhance performance (the number of rumored enhancers is much higher than the number that actually do something), then they have to figure out how to detect it in blood and urine samples (no point in banning something you can’t detect).