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"Drugs in Sport"

It seems everywhere you look these days an athelete or a footballer has been banned for taking an ilegal substance. So are the days of naturally fit and talented sportsmen and women gone.

But there seems to be so many banned substances and new ones appear all the time which makes it extrememly hard to detect if someone is using them. There isn't tests available to detect all these substances and some contain masking agents making it even harder to detect.So are some people getting away with it?

Alot of people that get banned don't even know they have taken it. Many of the Dutch football team were banned after failing drug tests, they all claim that they didn't know about it and it was the doctors who administered them without telling the players. This is terrible for sport. It's supposed to be competitive but this takes things to far, why should they have un natural advantages?

It seems no matter what that the days of the best man wins are gone. Drugs is a serious problem in sport and dosn't look like it will go away until we can test for all known substances.
But remember the well known phrase, "Winners don't do drugs!"

It seems everywhere you look these days an athelete or a footballer has been banned for taking an ilegal substance. So are the days of naturally fit and talented sportsmen and women gone.

But there seems to be so many banned substances and new ones appear all the time which makes it extrememly hard to detect if someone is using them. There isn't tests available to detect all these substances and some contain masking agents making it even harder to detect.So are some people getting away with it?

Alot of people that get banned don't even know they have taken it. Many of the Dutch football team were banned after failing drug tests, they all claim that they didn't know about it and it was the doctors who administered them without telling the players. This is terrible for sport. It's supposed to be competitive but this takes things to far, why should they have un natural advantages?

It seems no matter what that the days of the best man wins are gone. Drugs is a serious problem in sport and dosn't look like it will go away until we can test for all known substances.
But remember the well known phrase, "Winners don't do drugs!"

Aliboy wrote:
Alot of people that get banned don't even know they have taken it. Many of the Dutch football team were banned after failing drug tests, they all claim that they didn't know about it and it was the doctors who administered them
without telling the players.

Hmmmm, I cant help thinking that there's something 'wrong' with this statement. I can't place my finger on it...

Check for Dorito's crumbs on the bibs of athletes before commencing the race/whatever. It's the best way to be sure.

Either that or stake out the Olyimpic village and see who's ordering Domino's at 4:30am.

Drugs are bad, M'kay....

Who wouldnt want to watch the 1500 mtrs with all the runners stoned out their tree?

"And the runners are...well...walking and waving at the crowd a lot...nobody seems to be in the lead..no, wait..here comes...ice cream van? And the runners are headed over there...no, now they're sitting down and laughing with each other"


Make the Olympics more interesting for us.
Or, give them Speed and let the races be REALLY interesting.

It is my personal belief that the World Championship of Gurning has long been a breeding ground for the drug taking athlete.

The problem with drugs and sport is that the whole issue is so confusing. There are banned substances in many easily available 'over the counter' medicines and, as a previous poster said, some sportsman are taking these banned substances without even knowing about it. There are a number of sportsmen and sportswomen who have received lengthy bans and had their reputations destroyed in this way - with is very harsh.

There has to be some common sense applied in these issues. There has to be a way of distinguishing between those taking a substance in genuine error and those who are deliberately taking performance enhancing drugs in order to cheat their way to glory (Diego Maradona and Ben Johnson for example).

This is true, though trainers are more to blame than the athletes themselves. Any half decent sporting commitee issues notification about OTC products that you can and cant take as a competing athlete. It's not like these people are flying blind, it is part of the trainer/physicians responsibility to their charge that these substances are not accedently taken in lemsip or something.

Testing for these substances is very unreliable as well and it is nearly impossible to determine how the banned substance was administered (intentionally or not).

It's a tough one.

You said that the days of fit athletes is over, because of more taking drugs to compete. I don't feel this statement it entierly true.

Drugs have been developed over years- so now adays there are many more avaliable then ever before. This often would tempt the athlete in to taking some. So they are not necsiarily unft- they just want more than they have, its unfair, and most of the time they get caught- so why bother?

Because a sprinter whizzing his nuts off is funny.

Pure and Simple

Yeah but they aint excatly 'tripping' when they are on the track- that would be funny though- Jonathan @Edwards for triple Jump with his head in the clouds,take a run up, hope skip fall over gets up and laughs and luaghs...

So we agree then, more drugs in sport is a good thing.

But proper ones. Not steroids, but positive and crowd-pleasing ones.

"Just Say No!"
Zammo chased the dragon and got burned.