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Nah, Blake just learned the same lesson that Gatlin learned - once you get off the drugs you can sprint faster than ever. Damn PED's just slow you down, man.FoxxyBrown1111 said:Blake 9.69 with headwind just now in Lausanne ...
It´s all about the jamaican leg lift.
pedaling squares said:Nah, Blake just learned the same lesson that Gatlin learned - once you get off the drugs you can sprint faster than ever. Damn PED's just slow you down, man.
To ensure there is no cheating at the Paralympics, officials will be testing not just for the usual banned drugs, but for a practice called boosting, where wheelchair athletes do things like break a toe to cause a blood pressure spike to enhance performance.
In able-bodied athletes, intense physical exercise automatically raises the heart rate and blood pressure. Athletes with a severe spinal cord injury, however, don't get that natural boost.
To get a rapid rise in blood pressure, wheelchair-bound athletes may resort to another solution: inducing a state called autonomic dysreflexia. That is a reflex that occurs when the lower part of their body is exposed to painful stimuli, like filling the bladder to capacity, using tight leg straps, or sitting on a sharp object.
JMBeaushrimp said:On that note: Is Pritorious, or whatever his name is (the bladerunner), competing at the Paralympics as well?
Think about that.
JMBeaushrimp said:Thinking more about the fact that he just got off the real Olys, and is now competing in the Paralympics.
That's what what I'm asking people to think about.
JMBeaushrimp said:How can you legitimately do both?
BroDeal said:This. Millar is a media wh0re who uses anti-doping as a way to attract attention to himself and ultimately make money. It is all about his own image. We saw Millar's true attitude about doping when he called Landis disgusting for revealing what was going on at Postal.
Millar is a better looking Joe Papp.
joe_papp said:Hardly..Please...
sittingbison said:Joe is much better looking
Millar does not come across as being all that anti-doping to be honest
taiwan said:
July 11 - The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called on athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs to stay away from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
September 26 - A number of competitors at the recent 2012 Olympic Games in London missed appointments for blood tests without incurring sanctions, it has emerged.
The disclosure comes in the Independent Observer (IO) report on the anti-doping programme at the London 2012 Games that was published this week by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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Asked to clarify the statement in the report, WADA told insidethegames that there were "a number of appointments for ABP tests that athletes failed to meet during the Olympic Games".
WADA confirmed there were "no consequences" for athletes who missed an appointment for an ABP test, but said it understood that "most of them" were tested "at a later date during the Games".
The report's disclosure may raise new questions about the efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, of the ABP as a weapon in the battle against drug cheats.
Professor Carsten Lundby, a Swiss-based blood doping expert, told insidethegames earlier this year that the ABP's "ability to reveal EPO doping is virtually zero".
oldcrank said:I wonder what Dr. Eric Heiden would say about Ye,
or his own clean sweep of all five Olympic speed-
skating events in 1980...all in Olympic record time.
ThisFrenchGuy said:Has it been mentioned that the Italian Alex Schwazer, 50km walker who earned gold in 2008 and DQ from the last Olympics following an EPO positive in 2012, has admitted that he met "5 or 6 times" banned-by-CONI Dr. Ferrari?
For "training plans" of course. Nothing else.
Bicycle said:She never wondered why she was slowly turning into a man?