Catwhoorg said:
http://www.propublica.org/article/elite-runner-had-qualms-alberto-salazar-asthma-drug-performance
:Laurne Fleshman interview on Salazar.
Again focused on the issue of Asthma and Thyroid medication.
I have been reading Dic! Pound's book called
Inside Dope. It continues to be a relevant book because things are not changing for the better in the doping world. Many of Pound's fears and predictions about the proliferation of PEDs in 2006 at the time of print, continue to be the same-old, same-old. His foresight into Armstrong's BS is fascinating.
When discussing the role of pernicious doctors, who he calls the "Hypocrites of the Hippocratic Oath" he sarcastically says,
"I have often commented in public about the astonishing percentage of brave and dedicated athletes in international sport who seem to have arrived at the pinnacle of performance despite a medically acknowledged condition of asthma!"
It is clear the percentage of
TUEs for conditions of asthma appear to far outstrip the incidence of asthma in the general public, exercise induced or not. Pound says in his book,
"Issuing questionable TUEs has become so commonplace that we (WADA) have had to establish an international TUE committee to review all the TUEs in order to determine which are justified and which are not. I think we should publish a list of those that are rejected, revealing the names of the athletes, the names of the physicians who issued them and why we (WADA) rejected them."
I am not sure if WADA does this or not or whether privacy considerations still govern?