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Enhanced Games

Gull

Will swimmers who are participating in the Enhanced Games on May 24 be eligible to compete, win awards and set records in USMS sanctioned events, including national championships?

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  • I am on "both" sides - competed and lost rewards against the most fraudulent athletic mafia ever - East Germany and many others around that time ...I have always been CLEAN -  now I live for longevity and healthy long life. It is IMPOSSIBLE for USMS to check and test and all against performance enhancing - zero chance. It has never really worked for Olympics that well so its almost best to just suggest 'clean' but no chance to enforce. Not 'taking' anything but if you convinced me that taking something and it will make me healthier long term and I am not easy convince ... but if that was in the "performance enhancing" category - its almost impossible to say no.   

    And for those who think most "athletes" are clean - my son did need growth hormones for real so I went to a local endocrinologist - real signed photographs of top 10 US sports super star athletes in the last 20 years ... why ??

  • in reply to Erik Hochstein

    The athletes using performance enhancing drugs are not doing so to be “healthier” (although that may be the lie they tell themselves). They are doing so to swim faster. And nowhere in our bylaws is there even a “suggestion” that competitors should be clean. But there is a policy to address the one transgender athlete who competed at nationals last year. 

  • in reply to Gull

    TRT -  so if I decide I want to take testosterone because it is low, am I doping or looking for its benefits - and anybody can find any doc to make it "needed" ...you asked about USMS events - so how many people winning take it ? Is that "wrong" ? 

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