I seem to remeber a female swimmer appearing on tv with a Balco hat on. If I remember correctly, she was talking about how she began training for the 200 Olmypics and was using products from this company. She was helping them develop products for swimmers. I'm not real sure but I was really surprised at the time becasue I had heard about Balco from a friend who lives in San Fransisco and is a body builder. I, at the time, was still recovering from lots of surgeries and he told me about all of their "wonderful" products.
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That is a very interesting topic for discussion and I actually had an argument with my dad on the steroid use.He was claiming that for one to be good(olympic level) you have to use something or you won't be in the elite.He said that these days it is 80% competition between doctors of athletes- whoever will come up with the way to use them and not get caught wins.I disagree!!!I do agree though that theere are a lot of steroids in sports but I think it applies to some sports more that the pthers and I have to say I vigorously believe that swimming is one of the cleanest sports, because it is more technical that physical(I mean you do not have to bench press 300 lb to be a good swimmer).Also and I think that is a very strong point - we see a lot of very young very talented and fast elite swimmers, ex. Amanda Beard who was 14 some when she made her first Olympics, Phelps made his first Olympic appearance at 15, Athens 200m breaststroke silver medallist Daniel Gyurta is only 15 and so on.I mean obviously paents are involved in their training life when they are kids and I highly doubt that they would appreciate steroid us for their teens.Besides can you imagine what crime it is to feed an underage steroids?
Yes I agree that sports are not clean(take weightlifting - everyone takes steroids there it is a fact) but I am proud to be a swimmer because I am POSITIVE that we are the cleanest!!!
That is a very interesting topic for discussion and I actually had an argument with my dad on the steroid use.He was claiming that for one to be good(olympic level) you have to use something or you won't be in the elite.He said that these days it is 80% competition between doctors of athletes- whoever will come up with the way to use them and not get caught wins.I disagree!!!I do agree though that theere are a lot of steroids in sports but I think it applies to some sports more that the pthers and I have to say I vigorously believe that swimming is one of the cleanest sports, because it is more technical that physical(I mean you do not have to bench press 300 lb to be a good swimmer).Also and I think that is a very strong point - we see a lot of very young very talented and fast elite swimmers, ex. Amanda Beard who was 14 some when she made her first Olympics, Phelps made his first Olympic appearance at 15, Athens 200m breaststroke silver medallist Daniel Gyurta is only 15 and so on.I mean obviously paents are involved in their training life when they are kids and I highly doubt that they would appreciate steroid us for their teens.Besides can you imagine what crime it is to feed an underage steroids?
Yes I agree that sports are not clean(take weightlifting - everyone takes steroids there it is a fact) but I am proud to be a swimmer because I am POSITIVE that we are the cleanest!!!
