Been lurking here for awhile, waiting for a worthy topic for my first post 
After lunch today one of my coworkers needed to stop at Vitamin World to get some preworkout drink mix. So I walk in with him and follow him to the back where he grabs a box of the shelf, something called Dark Rage. The guy who was working there came up and started talking to him, and I wasnt really paying attention to anything in particular. But then the employee said, "Oh, that stuff there is great! It has something called EPO in it. It does something with your blood."
I started paying attention at that point and picked up one of the boxes. And sure enough on the front it said "EPO Blood Doping Technology". Now, Im fairly certain this stuff is a little different (less potent) than the EPO everyone bought in Italy circa ~94, but it got me thinking. How are we ever going to get clean competition if the very stuff we try and prevent athletes from using, in one form or another, is sold and advertised OTC to the general public? How do you effectively convince a young athlete, who grows up buying supplements from a Vitamin World, to not "dope" using supplements that are sold legally?
And as a silly side note, I joined in the conversation at that point, and started saying that synthetic EPO was illegal in some sports. And the guy who worked there said, "Of course, anything that works is a steroid. Thats why they work, cause there steroids. Its no big deal."
After lunch today one of my coworkers needed to stop at Vitamin World to get some preworkout drink mix. So I walk in with him and follow him to the back where he grabs a box of the shelf, something called Dark Rage. The guy who was working there came up and started talking to him, and I wasnt really paying attention to anything in particular. But then the employee said, "Oh, that stuff there is great! It has something called EPO in it. It does something with your blood."
I started paying attention at that point and picked up one of the boxes. And sure enough on the front it said "EPO Blood Doping Technology". Now, Im fairly certain this stuff is a little different (less potent) than the EPO everyone bought in Italy circa ~94, but it got me thinking. How are we ever going to get clean competition if the very stuff we try and prevent athletes from using, in one form or another, is sold and advertised OTC to the general public? How do you effectively convince a young athlete, who grows up buying supplements from a Vitamin World, to not "dope" using supplements that are sold legally?
And as a silly side note, I joined in the conversation at that point, and started saying that synthetic EPO was illegal in some sports. And the guy who worked there said, "Of course, anything that works is a steroid. Thats why they work, cause there steroids. Its no big deal."
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