Posted on 02/01/2002 1:48:00 PM PST by Notwithstanding
SALT LAKE CITY, February 1, 2002 (LSN.ca) - In the Feb.4 issue of Report magazine, "Brave New World", columnist Celeste McGovern writes of a gruesome method of blood doping used by some female athletes to boost athletic performance. Since enhancing drugs and even regular blood doping can be identified by regulators, the pregnancy-abortion scheme, while officially banned, is virtually impossible to stop.
Mona Passignano, director of research at the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics is quoted by Report quoting from a Finnish sports medicine expert: "Now that drug testing is routine, pregnancy is becoming the favourite way of getting an edge on competition." One Russian athlete told a reporter that as long ago as the '70s, gymnasts as young as 14 were ordered to sleep with their coaches to get pregnant--and then abort. The procedure is so well known it has made it to the textbooks. LifeSite found the method described in an online textbook in physiology by Dr. Poul-Erik Paulev of the Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen.
Professor Paulev writes that pregnancy seems to increase muscle strength in female athletes. "Female top athletes - just following the time when 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 after the abortion."
Yeah right.
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.
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 doesnt really convince me, but there is a shred.
patent +AMDG
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?
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.
So much for the 'Faster - Stronger - Higher' Slogan, hUh ??
Wonder how that might read, now ?? ??
Ok. Here's the textbook. The doctor seems to be a fairly solid professional.
And a snip:
Pregnancy/abortion as dopingPregnancy 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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