OLYMPIC ATHLETES GETTING PREGNANT AND ABORTING TO BOOST PERFORMANCE

Report Magazine via EWTN ^ | 2-4-2002 | Celeste McGovern

[The Raven]

>>gymnasts as young as 14 were ordered to sleep with their coaches to get pregnant

Yeah right.

[Zack Nguyen]

Apparently the effect is hormonal. A pregnant woman is flushed with a huge amount of hormones (and an enormous quantity of blood to care for an extra body), that can facilitate physical recovery after a hard workout, and greatly increase cardiovascular fitness.

I know a woman, a gold medalist in swimming as a teenager, who in the months following a pregnancy equaled and surpassed her gold-medal winning times. She was in her early thirties at the time.

[Bogie]

Wouldn't it be strange if an athlete was awarded the gold medal in the Olympics, only to be one of life's biggest losers?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

I almost threw up when I read this. I have very little doubt that this technique will become prevalent in this country too if it is shown that it works. After all, it is perfectly legal.

[codebreaker]

It must be a pure hormonal rush the enables them to set records.

[patent]

LOL. There is not a SHRED of evidence this is happening or ever has happened. Not a shred.

Or perhaps the evidence was shredded. For shreds of evidence we have one poster saying he has previously read of this, see #23, and a textbook you can read from a doctor at the University of Copenhagen, see #31. The evidence may not convince you, and it doesn’t really convince me, but there is a shred.

patent  +AMDG

[anniegetyourgun]

As in gaining the whole world and losing their soul?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"...babies for dinner?"

Almost. An implantation experiment using "tissue" from a "harvested" human fetus was "implanted" into a man's brain (the man was suffering from Parkinson's disease).The results were not too promising. Hair, bone, and teeth of the human harvested began growing wildly and out of control. The man died. Ask yourself, what does the biotech industry plan to do with mass-cloned human embryos? Hormonal supplements?

[Zack Nguyen]

I have read a serious trainer who coaches world class athletes speak of this "technique." I am not a scientist, and I have been told of the effect only anecdotally, so perhaps it is bunk.

But regardless, I would not for a moment doubt that it has been tried and will be tried in the future. Particularly in state-run programs in totalitrian countries.

[IM2Phat4U]

bump

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

Well.....

So much for the 'Faster - Stronger - Higher' Slogan, hUh ??

Wonder how that might read, now ?? ??

[Cachelot]

I'm not buying this one.

Ok. Here's the textbook. The doctor seems to be a fairly solid professional.

Paulev

And a snip:

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.

[mustapha mond]

My booty my choice?
*^&^%$
AAAHHHHHHHHHH

-MM

[glock rocks]

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[staytrue]

But the Finns ?

I think a long distance finnish runner pioneered blood doping in the 80's, but I can't remember his name. He would store his blood, then before the olympics, he would reinject himself with it giving himself more endurance.

[TomB]

I'm with you guys. This is an awfully hard story to believe on the basis of ONE report.

What disturbs me more are the number of people willing to believe this without the least amount of support. I'm not saying it isn't true, just that a whole lot of skepticism is in order.

[Robert_Paulson2]

And you believe this "story"? Baby twins conceived by large fish?

I guess if its bad enough, some folks will believe anything.

These alleged atheletes are not "USA" athletes, nor are the supposed eastern bloc practices asserted to be happening today in Salt lake... but in the seventies, that's thirty years ago.

Furthermore the alleged proponents of this "theory" that women are more athletically able while pregnant are europeans not known for their "cutting edge" medical expertise... and seeing that the practice is one that WAS perhaps used 30 years ago, and only theory today by copenhagen idiots... I fail to see this as breaking, but more like "stupid".

NO, I don't believe it. Get a source from today, who will name an athlete, or group of them since this is so degrading and rampant in olympic culture, give us the name of a particular coach who has slept with a female for this purpose during last two months, or forget it.

It's not breaking news, and ther is no reason to believe it, anymore than the old "bat boy" gives birth stories in the Sun Entertainment Tabloid.

I CAN imagine a pedophilic coach telling a girl something like that just so that she would sleep with him... now that I WOULD believe. "Hey this will make you jump higher..." that sounds more like the folks from copenhagen to me.