drug taking in sport

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Actually the drug has never been legal in the USA for any use and the Latvian manufacturers only recommend 4-6 weeks use and not 10 years and ...but then you are male and she is blonde and pretty and rich.

Its totally unlike you Graham I know but you completely missed the point I was making . Sharapova screwed up like I said but most probably by not reading the fine print and acting on it quickly enough rather than openly flaunting the drug rules - the drug was okay and then it wasn't and stupidly she missed the change over day.

The point I was making though is that a lot of athletes examine the rules and go as near to the edge of them that they can do legally. In the spirit of sport though is that morally right even though (so long as you don't screw it up) its technically legal? Hence my point about ibuprofen - loads of people use it to minimise muscle pain even though if nobody used it the competition would be fairer. Surely although clearly legal, using ibuprofen gives the users a performance edge?

Mappers point about energy gels is exactly the same. I've used the SIS gels but others have said that I should go one step further and use the caffeine SIS gels because they're even better. I think fell races should restrict allowable running food to Booth's mini pork pies and leave it at that