why would you take a diaretic? what would the advantage be:dunno:
Doesn't matter. The fact is that there is a list of banned substances. Don't have them in your system, that simple. YOU are responsible for what you put in your body (food, supplements, etc) and what ingredients are in them. When you compete at that level, you need to be wary.
There are many instances of this that you don't hear about. Fina Aquatics magazine has a doping news section which lists high profile offenders. Freddie Bousquet tested positive for Heptaminol (Stimulant) in June, 2010 and was suspended for 2 months starting in September. American Sean Mahoney tested positive the same month for Methylhexaneamine (Stimulant) following last year's Santa Clara meet and was suspended for 6 months. You may not have heard about either of these.
Doesn't matter. The fact is that there is a list of banned substances. Don't have them in your system, that simple. YOU are responsible for what you put in your body (food, supplements, etc) and what ingredients are in them. When you compete at that level, you need to be wary.
Actually as an allergic person I used to get prescription from doc to use nasal sprays I was quite shocked when found out that some of them contain forbidden substances from WADAs list. Of course the doc who used to treat civil people who have nothing common with sport never heard about WADA.
Solution is to go to sports doc.
Another interesting story was about 2 teams went to train to China and after a while appeared to be positive for forbidden substances. After tests appeared that some Chinese entrepreneurs were adding steroids while producing food. WADA recommended sport teams to avoid making training camps in China. www.cbc.ca/.../sp-wada-china.html
Nothing worse for someone whose accomplished so much than being wrongfully accused. Everything prior losses its value. Just seems an unlikely risk to take.
Do any of these "contaminated" supplements even have anything meaningful in them except the "contaminants"? Don't sports supplements work primarily via the placebo effect?
The supplement-seller can maintain the fiction that its product does something, and keep up demand among athletes looking for that tiny extra edge, if every so often the product comes out "contaminated" with drugs that really do something, sort of like how unregulated medicines used to be "contaminated" with opium.
