Is it all related to long term side-effects where the sports organization is attempting to keep the athletes safe down the line, or is there a hard line from a scientific standpoint where a drug goes from legal to illegal in the eyes of an organization like the IOC, and if so what’s the line?
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Nothing, really, WADA is a bit of scam and we should not fund it at all. Sport is nowhere near important enough to justify having a multi-country agency making sure some athlete doesn’t get an ‘unfair’ advantage.
WADA tried to ban caffeine once (it has been proven to improve performance) but it was too logistically sticky and they got rid of the ban.
It is increasingly apparent that it is really a weird sense of morality that determines whether something is banned or not. Really, guys are buying helmets that shock their scalp because they think it will make them better. Why isn’t that banned? I haven’t heard one really good reason why we should even ban PEDs in the first place. It made TdF much more exciting.
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