Thanks for the excerpt. I hadn't read that.
If she was taking the same batch of supplements throughout the trials, it would make sense that some of her other urine samples would be positive as well.
I gather that clenbuterol is a steroid from the article.
But can some one edumacate (spelling intentional) me on what benefit this particular steroid has and how it works? Just wondering how she would have swum better with this in her body?
And should I start using it? (Of course I'm kidding, just in a weird pre-nationals silly mood)
The Ron Judd piece is well worth reading in its entirety:
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/.../
He raises some very interesting issues. For one thing, as it stands now, Hardy will not be eligible for the 2012 London Games due to a new rule stating that anyone suspended for drugs for at least six months is ineligible to compete in the next Games. Another point is that even if she did ingest the drugs accidentally, she would still be getting the performance benefit from these drugs and this isn't fair to the clean athletes.
I've got to agree with geek. When it comes to these athletes taking any kind of supplement caveat emptor should apply.
I think what this should really drive home is that if you take a supplement you are taking a significant risk.
That's an awfully low keyed post on this topic from you Mr. Geek! I expected some vitriol!:afraid:
This is from the Steroidreport.com:
"Intentional doping
Why would Jessica Hardy take clenbuterol when drugs with similar performance-enhancing effects were legally available to her and all other swimmers with therapeutic use exemptions for asthma medications?
The performance enhancing effects of clenbuterol are not significantly different from those of other beta-2 agonists like albuterol, formoterol, salbutamol, salmeterol and terbutaline that are used by other Olympic swimmers. Swimming phenom Dara Torres uses the two legal beta-2 agonists (LABAs) Proventil (albuterol) and Symbicort (formoterol) and seems to be doing pretty well. Why would Hardy use an illegal drug when the legal PEDs are just as good?"
Kirk,
Good article. Thanks.
It would seem to me that all the money she's spending on lawyers to get her out of this mess, could have been spent to have an independent lab run the ingredients of the supplement she was taking! If you're an Olympic athlete wouldn't you want a second opinion about what you're taking?
And from that article I'm really pissed that Tara Kirk didn't get to go. How unfair is that. :badday:
I certainly don't think this makes her innocent just because her grossly overpaid lawyer convinced some other lawyers it was accidental. Here's something interesting from an article from a reporter named Ron Judd:
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But new evidence presented in the arbritration ruling sheds some new light. It discloses, for the first time publicly, that the same UCLA lab that tested Hardy's other samples informed USADA on July 23, two days after reporting the initial positive result, that two Hardy samples from July 1 (when she won the 100 ***) and July 6 (when she finished second in the 50 freestyle), initially reported as negative, "actually revealed the presence of 'suspect clenbuterol transitions.'"
We'll leave it to the scientists to interpret that. But the fact is, it's three samples with three red flags, taken throughout the U.S. Olympic Trials."
It took her 8 months to come up with this? Lame, very lame. Another doper who thinks the rest of us are dopes to believe her.
Shall we bet as to which foot you put in your mouth next?
