Why should any sportsman or woman face pretty hefty sanctions for taking recreational drugs that do nothing to improve their performance ?
They are role models for many people?
Because it's illegal?
I thought it was on WADA list. Isn't it a performance enhancing stimulant.
Who? If he is a known athlete, he is an example to others and should be made an example of what happens when you do wrong.
Why should a sportsman be treated as a role model but not a pop star or Dec from Ant and Dec , nobody is saying he needs to sort himself out then serve a 2 year ban before he goes back to work .
Especially when they are all (allegedly) on some form of PED anyway
I thought it was on WADA list. Isn't it a performance enhancing stimulant.
Yep, that is the simple answer
[url= https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list/prohibited-in-competition/stimulants ]WADA link[/url]
Being a role model has nothing to do with it. It there was a WADA equivalent for pop stars they would also be banned. Be funny if there was one.
Dec from Ant and Dec , nobody is saying he needs to sort himself out then serve a 2 year ban before he goes back to work .
1. Painkillers and alcohol aren't illegal
2. TV stars don't have a list of substances they are banned from using
3. It was Ant. Not Dec 🙂
There's a reason dockers and Antarctic explorers used to take it 😉
As far as I know, Cocaine isn't banned by WADA out of competition, so you can party all you want in your spare time, but Evans had a sample taken at a tournament, so he was in compeitiion, and a stimulant like coke could certainly be considered performance enhancing
Aside from that, they use three criteria for banning a drug, performance enhancing being just one. Health risk and a sort of vague morality/disrepute thing are the other two, and a drug can be banned for being any two of those three. Even if you disagree with the performance enhancing thing, it would probably still be banned because of health risk and the fact that it's illegal.
It certainly must have been used as a PED in the past, clearly has a strong effect both physical and mental.
Was it a sex thing for when they arrived back in port?There's a reason dockers and Antarctic explorers used to take it
It's a stimulant, and it metabolises pretty quickly so it's a fair guess it was being used to enhance performance for the event.
I rather like the idea of a modern sportsman eschewing these new fangled drugs like EPO and HGH, and doing things the old fashioned way.
GP Mills [url= https://vintagebicycle.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/ultimate-cycling-hero-g-p-mills-1867-1945/ ]consumed enough cocaine to kill a man when he smashed the End to End record in 1891[/url].
According to Wikipedia, he was also "an excellent shot, and carried a Colt revolver while training to fend off dogs. He shot five of them."
Never mind what tyres - what calibre for a Dobermann Pinscher?
[quote=chakaping ]It certainly must have been used as a PED in the past, clearly has a strong effect both physical and mental.
We're (supposedly) cyclists on here - if you know your history, then yes of course it has been used as a PED, back in the days before any drugs testing
http://www.michaelshouse.com/blog/athletes-may-use-cocaine-to-gain-an-edge-in-their-sport/ Googling this most surveys seem to disagree that cocaine has any positive benefit for an athlete .
Googling this most surveys seem to disagree that cocaine has any positive benefit for an athlete .
Yeah. But they think they're awesome....
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It's also grossly stupid of him. Coke is the athlete's drug of choice as it metabolises out so quickly, so he's a bit of a muppet for getting his recreational drug-taking wrong at best. Obviously it being illegal is also a problem!
The last thing I'd want to do after a line is ride a bike
should be able to take as many drugs as you want, would make sport a lot more interesting.
Maybe he should have got team sky's doctor to give him a TUEs
He's a professional, it's his job and livelihood. It's his job to know the rules of his sport, and that includes the WADA rules. He knows there's a chance of getting tested so a really dumb risk to take in competition.
He's a professional, it's his job and livelihood. It's his job to know the rules
Totally. My work has random D&A testing. And I would lose my job if caught doing what he did (and struggle forever to get another job doing the same thing)
Why should he be any different?
because I assume what you do is safety critical - train driver perhaps?- where as playing tennis off your head on drugs is not very dangerous to anyone even the player?
I agree its a breach of WADA and he has to pay the price but its not equivalent to other jobs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t38P1ADrTBM
because I assume what you do is safety critical - train driver perhaps?- where as playing tennis off your head on drugs is not very dangerous to anyone even the player?
Hmmm. Tennis can be pretty hazardous
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