Originally posted by bip
Yes, it does - but no more than they're already screwed at the moment. If there really was reliable testing - for everything - I'd be thrilled with that, but there isn't. Blood doping with your own blood, growth hormone and many other things either can't be tested for or can be eliminated early enough to avoid detection.
Maybe we should stop misleading those "true athletes who are clean and want a fair shot without illegal drugs".
By opening up the field to anything you do screw the clean athletes even more than they may be getting screwed by the cheaters.
I don't think they (clean athletes) are misled; rather they are frustrated that they must work harder to win while the cheaters don't.
Originally posted by bip
Yes, it does - but no more than they're already screwed at the moment. If there really was reliable testing - for everything - I'd be thrilled with that, but there isn't. Blood doping with your own blood, growth hormone and many other things either can't be tested for or can be eliminated early enough to avoid detection.
Maybe we should stop misleading those "true athletes who are clean and want a fair shot without illegal drugs".
By opening up the field to anything you do screw the clean athletes even more than they may be getting screwed by the cheaters.
I don't think they (clean athletes) are misled; rather they are frustrated that they must work harder to win while the cheaters don't.
