Good read.
Puts more shame on sports.
Wonder how many amateurs take stuff?
Some of this, though clearly not all, is down to how close to the wind you're willing to accept for yourself. For moderate amateurs like myself its 'Do I use excess caffine? Do I use Ibuprofen in Ultra's? Salazar and Brailsford appear, at least, to be cut from the same cloth...its the old marginal gains taken to the extreme. What do we consider cheating...the lines can be blurred to a point. Still not sure about Wiggins/Sky etc (...though evidence for going over the line is becoming compelling!) and now its similar here with Oregon/Salazar/Farah. You end up just hoping they're clean.
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It's clearly cheating when you take a powerful corticosteroid with the sole intention of making you faster. Same with all other drugs including caffeine. Proving intent is difficult when you make allowances for some substances. The way around that is to ban the use of these drugs so we don't have to take the word of athletes and co. I believe that may be the case with corticosteroids in the near future.
At what level does testing begin in 'our sport' if any? I assume that once athletes reach a level where they represent England or gb in euro or world mountain running races they might be tested. Is that the case?
.... another one bites the dust ....
This feels like the start. No more sprinting to the finish of a 2-04 26 and a bit miler, no more also-rans being World no 1 plus the fella with the Weller can't have long left now. It's good. Like all the badness is going to be expunged
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It's happened again. "We're going to win and we're going to win clean" is about what they said. How hollow do the words of Sutton et al sound now? It's one fiasco after another, how can british cycling ever recover...
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