Hello forum.
Last monday, a friend of mine, a swimmer who writes on the italian forum, has been squalified for 6 month after a doping control.
Does there in USA exist doping control on master atlethe?
He didn't use epo, he just have a joint after dinner.
What do you think about that?
The post about this topic has been censured in Itlay.
Thank you.
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Originally posted by jim clemmons
Never been tested but I'll freely admit to (probably/perhaps) have been in the realm of "positive" for caffeine.
Is that bad?
According to a tv program that was on tonight use of caffeine is no longer restricted. They didn't say so on the show but I think I recently read that small amounts of caffeine are performance enhancing but that larger amounts are performance degrading. I don't remember where the turning point was but it was below the level that was legal under the old rules, which is no doubt why they removed the rule.
The show was interesting, sort of a scientific study meets reality tv concept: they took a couple dozen volunteers and split them in three groups, people who were injected with steroids, people who were injected with a placebo, and people who were given various legal supplements. They then trained them for six weeks and measured performance and improvement in some olympic sports (5k run, 100m run, shot put). It seemed like the 100m sprint was where steroids had the strongest effect, they didn't help with the 5k at all, shot put was hard to say because of the technical aspects dominated the training effects. They also did a bunch of more controlled testing.
Originally posted by jim clemmons
Never been tested but I'll freely admit to (probably/perhaps) have been in the realm of "positive" for caffeine.
Is that bad?
According to a tv program that was on tonight use of caffeine is no longer restricted. They didn't say so on the show but I think I recently read that small amounts of caffeine are performance enhancing but that larger amounts are performance degrading. I don't remember where the turning point was but it was below the level that was legal under the old rules, which is no doubt why they removed the rule.
The show was interesting, sort of a scientific study meets reality tv concept: they took a couple dozen volunteers and split them in three groups, people who were injected with steroids, people who were injected with a placebo, and people who were given various legal supplements. They then trained them for six weeks and measured performance and improvement in some olympic sports (5k run, 100m run, shot put). It seemed like the 100m sprint was where steroids had the strongest effect, they didn't help with the 5k at all, shot put was hard to say because of the technical aspects dominated the training effects. They also did a bunch of more controlled testing.
