tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553776903550786592.post1248612277431061172..comments2023-07-01T11:21:54.887+01:00Comments on Getting Fit: Armstrong Revisitedjamescrosslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13131559924872540903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553776903550786592.post-2335911720761976362013-02-07T12:00:36.391+00:002013-02-07T12:00:36.391+00:00Hi Faheem
Thanks for taking the time to write suc...Hi Faheem<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time to write such an interesting reply. Definately food for thought. So many different camps of thinking on this one!<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Jamesjamescrosslandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13131559924872540903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553776903550786592.post-33013124311193443082013-02-06T23:28:29.053+00:002013-02-06T23:28:29.053+00:00Maybe it's time to top pretending that drugs a...Maybe it's time to top pretending that drugs are not prevalent in sport and just be open about their widespread use. I think that what makes people uneasy is the question of legality rather than any supposed dangers. Let's face it - they are dangerous when given in an unsupervised manner (the same goes for most medicines!). Under medical direction, as given to most sports stars(& if you doubt that you are either totally misguided or extremely naive) these drugs are safe and effective.<br />Most performance enhancing drugs were developed for medical use - specially for burns patients or those who had suffered similar medical trauma. It was when people started noticing that they had other positive effects that they started using them for sporting prowess and the legal status of many of these only changed within our lifetimes.<br />Another misconception is that these drugs will allow an "average" person to become supermen or somehow better than average & therefore it is cheating. Sorry to shatter your illusions but steroids et al don't work in that manner. Genetically gifted individuals will always excel in their chosen areas and no amount of drugs given to an average person will allow them to match up to tehse gifted individuals. Africans would still be dominant in distance running events whereas Russians, for example, would not! A Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Andy Murray would still be among the best at their game.<br />As for the side effects if the legality issue was removed then the area would be more open to research and safer alternatives. The larger, reputable companies (Pfizer, Unilever etc) would enter and real research could take place. This would remove some of the dangers especially since you wouldn't have to rely on products of dubious origin, which could be fake or produced in some filthy backwater with contaminated substances.<br />The whole issue could be regulated in a similar manner to medicines whereby you would need a prescription and/or take them under a doctor's supervision. Of course mis-use will still tke place but that is up to the individual concerned. <br />Just some food for thought. Financial Freedom Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161451329817418755noreply@blogger.com