Just to clear - What they found in Landis was synthetic testosterone. Not naturally occurring.
Right, I got that. But, remember that Landis alleged that he had naturally high levels of testoterone. This was his excuse after his shot of Jack Daniels excuse didn't pan out.
One thing I like about these records are how even they are, 47.60, 47.50, and 21.50 not that it matters but I like it.
Suspiciously even, if you ask me. What drug does that?
He's a neatness freak. He's tidying up the record books. And he is considerate: he's doing times that are easy for us to remember.
Here are the measurements of the 100 guys. It seems to me that Alain has grown??? www.usaswimming.org/.../08_100frm.pdf
Somebody had better update that page. WR = incorrect.:wave:
This is what Floyd Landis alleged. Can a doctor on this forum comment on this notion that some walk around with hormone levels only obtainable to most via doping? It would seem there is a natural human range.
Just to clear - What they found in Landis was synthetic testosterone. Not naturally occurring. Unless the test was tainted - there were many documented flaws in that particular lab.
I am not sure just why it is inconceivable to so many that these swims are clean. Popov's record was 8 years old. VDH's record was also set in 2000. It's about time they were broken. I admit it is interesting that these guys were not on everyone's radar. But maybe they are just free of all the attention and pressure the better know big guys face all the time.
Even the king of middle distance, Michael Phelps, swims a 48.42. Lots of guys are sprinting very fast.
But this is an Olympic year. Fast swims have been happening for some time.
If all these guys (and gals) are tainted - is there a new underground secret formula making the rounds? Is this the special sauce that goes undetected by all the drug tests? Did Dara sell this to Sullivan and Bernard? Maybe Gary Hall is the only one who doesn't know where to get it.
www.nlm.nih.gov/.../003707.htm
Says here the normal testosterone level for males is 300-1000 ng/dl. That's a lot of variation. Of course, the outcomes are not necessarily linear with respect to this measurement.
According to a study in the April 1999 Journal of Behavioral Medicine, higher-than-average testosterone levels offer certain benefits but also carry some serious risks. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Penn., reviewed the records of 4,393 men between the ages of 32 and 44 who had served in the military between 1965 and 1971. Their blood had been drawn to determine testosterone levels -- which ranged from 53 to 1,500 nanograms per deciliter, with an average of 679. (The normal range in males is 270 to 1,070 nanograms.)
men.webmd.com/.../keep-testosterone-in-balance
If Bernard's natural testosterone level is near the 1500 nanogram/deciliter mark, surely that could be seen as providing an advantage to him...naturally.
