Masters Swimming and Illegal Supplements

Originally posted by Karen Duggan Why just test National Records and World Records? Why not randomly test everybody? I guarantee you that it is just as frustrating for the person getting 11th place who was beat by the cheater who got 10th. Just my .02 (two tenths ;) ) ha ha I also noticed that FIDE does drug testing for international chess tournaments (though I'd never before realized that beta blockers are a performance enhancer for chess players). But why should they restrict the testing to international tournaments? Don't you think it's just as frustrating for a somebody to lose a chess game even when they're not playing at a tournament? Why not look for people playing chess in the park or in their living room and test them, too? And if they fail the test and don't have a Therapeutic Use Exemption (or refuse to be tested), bar them from playing chess again for a year or two. That'll fix 'em! Bob

Originally posted by Karen Duggan Why just test National Records and World Records? Why not randomly test everybody? I guarantee you that it is just as frustrating for the person getting 11th place who was beat by the cheater who got 10th. Just my .02 (two tenths ;) ) ha ha I also noticed that FIDE does drug testing for international chess tournaments (though I'd never before realized that beta blockers are a performance enhancer for chess players). But why should they restrict the testing to international tournaments? Don't you think it's just as frustrating for a somebody to lose a chess game even when they're not playing at a tournament? Why not look for people playing chess in the park or in their living room and test them, too? And if they fail the test and don't have a Therapeutic Use Exemption (or refuse to be tested), bar them from playing chess again for a year or two. That'll fix 'em! Bob