Who would be opposed to drug testing in Masters Swimming? What would be the cost to implement such a program to test winners at US Masters Nationals? and finally, What drugs do you think would potentially be found?..... HGH?.... Testosterone?..... THG?....... IGF-1?..... designer steroids?
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I think testing at the masters level may be overkill. As others have mentioned, there are just too many things we do that could effect a test. Like my asthma inhaler. If I take a hit off the albuterol before the race, or right after to get my lungs back, will that skew a result? Too much to acccount for with masters. Would we have to develop a scaled dosage chart for each age-group so as we age up our prescribed meds are properly accounted for?
On the flip side, if testing were to come to be, perhaps the way to go is to test World/ National record breaking swims. That would reduce the cost of the program, since there would be less of these in any given meet than there would be "winners".
I think testing at the masters level may be overkill. As others have mentioned, there are just too many things we do that could effect a test. Like my asthma inhaler. If I take a hit off the albuterol before the race, or right after to get my lungs back, will that skew a result? Too much to acccount for with masters. Would we have to develop a scaled dosage chart for each age-group so as we age up our prescribed meds are properly accounted for?
On the flip side, if testing were to come to be, perhaps the way to go is to test World/ National record breaking swims. That would reduce the cost of the program, since there would be less of these in any given meet than there would be "winners".
