RE: How Drug Cheats Stole My Dreams
I'm not into sports particularly (on the professional level).
Sports for their own sake is to be applauded, and would solve the abuse problem if their was no money/notoriety involved.
It is a reality that people will try anything to gain advantage, when the reward is immense.
As a hypothetical question - what is considered a drug?
Carbohydrates for example, are nutritionally irrelevant.
I was on a carb free diet for a couple of years..and when swimming, the lack of energy 'burst' was noticeable.
I used to eat a handful of pasta 40/50 minutes before exercising, and the difference was mind blowing..!
My point being, this is a chemical compound that definitely enhances performance....
Should that be illegal?
It's an interesting philosophical point...
Well as far as performance enhancing drugs that shouldn't be allowed, it's quite clear.
A drug is a synthetically prepared chemical compound that has been engineered to allow otherwise unnatural growth, and/or to aid recovery. When taken it allows the user to grow larger muscle and recover from training much more effectively had they not taken the substance.
Your examples with food are good, however they are completely natural and will not put your body in a state of 'hyper' growth or recovery. Nor will they put any extra strain on your heart (as long as you eat normally).
It is a shame about the reward aspect, however even when athletes were technically amateur at the Olympics we still had rife cheating... I guess they were still being rewarded via endorsements.
It's a crying shame really :-(
Cg