Another swimmer bites the dust. She says its from her ovarian disease . . . . . pay no attention to the synthetic qualities of testosterone that was reported to be found in her sample. Don't know if I'd want to arm "wrastle" this woman.
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"Brazilian swimmer Rebeca Gusmoa suspended for steroids
She won 2 Pan Am Games gold medals, plus a silver and a bronze. She looks like the Incredible Hulk. And, she used synthetic testosterone. Check out her photos; which is the off-cycle?
Summing governing body FINA announced the doping suspensions of Brazil's Rebeca Gusmao. The International Herald carries the story."
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Rob,
Of course everyone supports the members of these anti drug organizations and the work they perform. That's like saying you love apple pie and America. This is not the issue. The issue is these organizations are grossly underfunded and testing for agents that are usually several years behind the curve. Fact is the amount of cheating and "supplement" abuse in swimming and other sports is getting worse over the last decade. WADA, FINA and USADA need more help. Your actions are to be applauded, but I see little hope for catching the users until we seriously dump substantially more money and support into testing for leading edge drugs to nail the cheats. Just because their appears to be a "very few athletes" getting caught as a percentage of the entire base, does not mean this represents the number of cheaters actually out there, or that we are doing a good job catching them. There are too many examples of cheaters that passed these organization's testing procedures over and over time and again before getting caught.
We all support WADA, USADA and FINA, the dedicated people as yourself who want to make a difference. We all want these organizations to succeed, but don't white wash their problems by saying they aren't catching 100% of the violations. They're not even close to that number according to Victor Conte. These organizations have a very steep uphill climb to get on top of an already bad situation in American sports.
John Smith
Rob,
Of course everyone supports the members of these anti drug organizations and the work they perform. That's like saying you love apple pie and America. This is not the issue. The issue is these organizations are grossly underfunded and testing for agents that are usually several years behind the curve. Fact is the amount of cheating and "supplement" abuse in swimming and other sports is getting worse over the last decade. WADA, FINA and USADA need more help. Your actions are to be applauded, but I see little hope for catching the users until we seriously dump substantially more money and support into testing for leading edge drugs to nail the cheats. Just because their appears to be a "very few athletes" getting caught as a percentage of the entire base, does not mean this represents the number of cheaters actually out there, or that we are doing a good job catching them. There are too many examples of cheaters that passed these organization's testing procedures over and over time and again before getting caught.
We all support WADA, USADA and FINA, the dedicated people as yourself who want to make a difference. We all want these organizations to succeed, but don't white wash their problems by saying they aren't catching 100% of the violations. They're not even close to that number according to Victor Conte. These organizations have a very steep uphill climb to get on top of an already bad situation in American sports.
John Smith
