... maybe, if she had any talent to begin with... :bolt:
I believe the american record certificates/national championship medals she has lying around means just maybe she had a little :p ;)
Hot off the press...
Growth hormones don't boost performance
By STEPHANIE NANO, Associated Press Writer
Tue Mar 18, 5:52 PM ET
NEW YORK - Athletes who take human growth hormone may not be getting the boost they expected. While growth hormone adds some muscle, it doesn't appear to improve strength or exercise capacity, according to a review of studies that tested the hormone in mostly athletic young men.
"It doesn't look like it helps and there's a hint of evidence it may worsen athletic performance," said Dr. Hau Liu, of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., who was lead author of the review.
Growth hormone, or HGH, is among the performance enhancers baseball stars Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were accused of taking in the blockbuster Mitchell Report. Clemens denies using the hormone, while Pettitte admits using it....
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That was interesting. But they made a point that there is a difference between taking as prescribed and on the level as taken illegally.
My mom is prescribed it due to growth hormone deficiency because of damage to the pituitary gland from a benign tumor removed years ago. It has caused her to have osteoporosis and due to an array of other things going on, the best treatment is injections of HGH.
I want to see if she notices a huge difference in her walking/hiking performance once she starts taking it. But it looks like in that realm she may not notice much according to this article.
But the nature of juicers is such that they'll try anything to give them a perceived edge, whether it actually occurs or not. And WADA has been known to ban drugs that do not actually improve performance (ie, they don't do the research either).
Perhaps drugs such as marijuana??? I don't know about any of you, but there were times during my misspent youth that I might have dabbled a bit...I can assure you that swimming hard was the furthest thing from my mind at the time.
Perhaps Kenyon should move up to Division II or Division I. They don't seem to have much of a problem winning NCAAs for the last two decades. It might be more challenging for the team and coach.
John Smith
DIII cuts for NCAA are faster than DII, so moving to DII would be a step down... And DIII can't / doesn't give athletic scholarships - so until or unless they start, they'll stay in DIII.
Are you the same John Smith from Firestone High School?
Hot off the press...
I found the following quote interesting:
"The tests also probably don't reflect the dose and frequency practiced by athletes illegally using the hormone. Experiments like that aren't likely to be conducted.
'It's dangerous, unethical and it's never going to be done,' said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine."
But apparently some athletes have no qualms in using their own bodies as test tubes. Silly, silly, silly. Creatine users should take note too.
Growth Hormone is probably only one ingredient in a cocktail of PEDs that serious users explore...... IGF-1, THG like enhancers, Testosterone, or even still anabolic steriods are used together. Remember Balco relationship with runner Kelli White and her admission to taking several items to win.
I don't doubt that PEDs actually enhance performance, but I do sometimes wonder if it does so as much as users believe. Or how much would be due to the placebo effect.
I dont know how much research is actually done to measure the true extent of performance enhancement in actual competition. It would be difficult to do for many reasons.
But the nature of juicers is such that they'll try anything to give them a perceived edge, whether it actually occurs or not. And WADA has been known to ban drugs that do not actually improve performance (ie, they don't do the research either).
Just thinking out loud. I'm not trying to say that using PEDs is okay -- far from it, I think it is unethical and also extremely stupid -- but the effect may be less than we think.
These results by the Dutch are not out of line with historical performances from a country that has a rich swimming tradition and consistently produces tall, athletic women.
...and men. The Dutch are now statistically the tallest nation on Earth.
3/4 of members of dutch team relay are world class sprinters, the WR was expected after the heat without the two best members.
Juiced ? I don't know, you can make a case about everybody that break a WR these days or win multiple gold medals in every race that he compete, or accept that everybody take some sort of "supplements", legal , banned or whatever, and cheer to the "amazing" performance until some proof of be juiced.
The anti-doping can state that at that moment you "can be" clean not that you're clean, but nothing about a week before for examples. Look a Marion Jones, for years she was clean for antidoping until...you know the story.
I personally think that everybody take something, legal or not for me don't make any differences, it's so simple : you take something to help your performance, for me this's "doping" but I accept it, I accept that today in sports working hard in pratice is as important as working hard in "kitchen" to fuel the body with the best "gasoline" as possible, otherwise you've doubt every time to watch an impressive performance.
At the end, I looking for Beijing this summers for a exciting final at 4x100sl between Australian, Germany, USA and Netherland.
