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Such a fine line though. What is "performance enhancing" and what is truly medicine?
In a world where the smallest change can make the biggest difference to those at the top, they will always push the boundaries.
Many drugs include some form of stimulant to make you feel better. Slimming pills help you lose weight, caffeine wakes you up, hell, even alcohol has a "peaky" initial effect, so how do you define the line?
Also, some are directly employed to push the boundaries, the richer athletes appear to pay handsomely for such services; it's like the F1 Engineers honing their machines.
A murky, murky world that removes much of the "romance" around sport.
The guy who wrote that article is a very interesting follow on drugs in sport. He basically thinks all 'money' sports are rotten to the core. Surprising he has not been sued some of the things he has said about some gilded heroes.
Let them all take drugs then they are a level playing field... Simples
Proppa Geezer Olympics.
The real "Marathon".
Meet up at 7pm. Stay up until you have drunk 12 pints. Large Donner with extra chilli sauce. Then bed. Up at 5. Full English with Black Pudding. Eat it ALL up. Ten fags and 5 cans of Red Bull. Then 26 miles 320 yards (or whatever it is).
Gold medal for the top Proppa Athlete
Or 100m on whatever drugs science can produce. No limit. Just what is the human capability?
...as long as it's not me or my offspring, who cares?
Except that loads of kids die in the process trying to emulate their heroes.
Spot on Brian... I read an analogy a few years ago where the point was raised about "imagine if your son or daughter came to you and said I cannot compete unless I take drugs"!... think about it!
Except that loads of kids die in the process trying to emulate their heroes.
Yeah, well maybe if we actually show the same disdain for the MAJORITY of musicians or members of the art community we may get the message through to the kids.
Yeah, well maybe if we actually show the same disdain for the MAJORITY of musicians or members of the art community we may get the message through to the kids.
Fair point!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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