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OLYMPIC ATHLETES GETTING PREGNANT AND ABORTING TO BOOST PERFORMANCE
Report Magazine via EWTN ^ | 2-4-2002 | Celeste McGovern

Posted on 02/01/2002 1:48:00 PM PST by Notwithstanding

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To: Notwithstanding
MAYBE THE MOST DISTURBING THING I EVER HEARD
21 posted on 02/01/2002 1:56:31 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: VA Advogado
Actually, as an underwhelmingly talented amateur athlete myself, I have read of this gruesome and immoral technique. It is real and it does happen. It is obviously disgusting - the complete subjugation of everything, even a human life, to the need to win a medal.

And it does not in the least surprise me that Eastern Bloc countries would have their teenage athletes impregnated by the coaches. The Eastern Bloc combined the most advanced training techniques on earth with the absolutely ruthless health-sacrificing steroid programs. Women in particular suffered later in life from the effects of years of concentrated steroid, IGF-1, and growth hormone abuse.

Believe it or not, I have read that members of the East German track team would be assigned a "partner" before big meets, as German physiologists thought that sex before races might boost performance.

23 posted on 02/01/2002 1:57:48 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Stone Mountain
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24 posted on 02/01/2002 1:58:11 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
Un freaking believable.
25 posted on 02/01/2002 1:59:09 PM PST by AUgrad
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To: Notwithstanding
go to the link listed at post 9 - it appears legit

No, it appears to have a website. Just like the Onion. Whether its legit is another story. No sources, no quotes (from the culprits) no names.

27 posted on 02/01/2002 1:59:27 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Notwithstanding
COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS Up Front by Colby Cosh See last line in the Table of Contents:

Brave New World--Part 1 by Celeste McGovern

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February 4, 2002 Issue Full Text

Articles in the Feb. 4, 2002 issue of The Report but not available online:

POLITICS
Hard time for minor crime
Canada and the U.S. have different ideas of basic rights in the post-September 11 world by Peter Stock

The wages of government medicine
Doctors are persecuted by quota-driven bean-counters who are morally and medically inept by Lynne Cohen

Soft steps to assimilation
Ottawa's Indian policy seems designed to slowly push Natives into the real world by Peter Stock

Healthcare shakeup
The Mazankowski report says it's time to bust government's medical monopoly by Candis McLean

LAW
None dare call it evil
Parents who murdered their son were lionized in the media by Terry O'Neill

Harmless when not out of control
Critics charge lax parole decisions are needlessly costing lives by Marnie Ko

Sympathy for the shaman
A popular Ecuadorean medicine man faces criminal charges for the death of a Native elder by Terry O'Neill

Sue the government
Sue the government A lawsuit claims liquor stores can be held liable for selling booze to an alcoholic by Marnie Ko

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The Greal Lone Land gets lonelier
Reversing the depopulation of the rural prairies will not be easy, but there is hope by Mike Byfield

To rock-bottom and back
B.C.'s mining industry finally sees light at the end of the political tunnel by Terry O'Neill

Deadly in more ways than ever before
With unprecedented intimacy, a Canadian filmmaker portrays the birth of the newest U.S. fighter jet, the X-35 by Mike Byfield

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Doggie rights
A pro-animal group conjures up a report aimed at forcing landlords to accept pets by Terry O'Neill

Sask Pen's porn and pizza party
Corrections Canada is under the gun after staff threw prisoners a scandalous New Year's Eve bash by Terry O'Neill

The 'sorry' state of history
MPs' apology for First World War firing squads reflects a continuing national demoralization by Geoffrey Shaw

Religion for beginners
The virtues-education business is booming, but it does not survive in a theological vacuum by Rick Hiebert

Answers to bigots
An incisive defence presents the historic aspects critics of Christianity like to ignore by Virginia Byfield

COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS
Up Front by Colby Cosh
Champions by Carla Smithson
Letters To The Editor
News on the Terrorism Front by Kevin Michael Grace
Eclectica by Kevin Michael Grace
Judgment Day by John Carpay
Numbers compiled by Mike Byfield
The Record compiled by Victor Olivier and Rich Hiebert
Brave New World--Part 1 by Celeste McGovern


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28 posted on 02/01/2002 2:00:28 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Sara Of Earth †
PING.

Any truth to this?

Please tell me no.

30 posted on 02/01/2002 2:00:44 PM PST by martian_22
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To: VA Advogado; Dacus943

I am afraid this is true. This is from online textbook in physiology (Chapter 18: Exercise, Sprorts and Doping) by Dr. Poul-Erik Paulev . From the textbook:

Pregnancy/abortion as doping

Pregnancy seems to increase muscle strength in female athletes. Female top athletes - just following the period, where they gave birth to their first child - have set several world records. Of course, this is acceptable as a natural and unintended event.

However, in some countries female athletes have become pregnant for 2-3 months, in order to improve their performance just following an abortion.

31 posted on 02/01/2002 2:00:52 PM PST by truthandlife
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To: Zack Nguyen
BTW, I am not an exercise physiologist, but I have witnessed and read of anedotal accounts of women, in the months following pregnancy, achieving personal bests in swimming. My understanding is that it all has to do with hormones. Formerly pregnant women have a lot of them, which I suppose facilitates muscle recovery and cardiovascular fitness.
32 posted on 02/01/2002 2:01:01 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Notwithstanding
What is this crap you're posting? Just give us a link.
33 posted on 02/01/2002 2:01:44 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
The print issue is not available online immediately. But the TOC is listed - see the last line of the TOC I posted the columnists first name is Celeste. This mag is 25 years old.
34 posted on 02/01/2002 2:02:16 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding
this is perhaps the most disgusting thing I have ever heard
35 posted on 02/01/2002 2:02:27 PM PST by rwfromkansas
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To: seamole
thank you
36 posted on 02/01/2002 2:02:31 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: Zack Nguyen
can't they just use synthetic hormones?
37 posted on 02/01/2002 2:03:10 PM PST by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado
Believe it, those Commies were ruthless.
38 posted on 02/01/2002 2:03:22 PM PST by codebreaker
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To: VA Advogado
I did. See #9.
39 posted on 02/01/2002 2:03:39 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: jlogajan
It could, however, explain Bill Clinton's new-found interest in sports.
40 posted on 02/01/2002 2:03:53 PM PST by Redcloak
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