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8/05/13

Doping in Sports and a viable solution


Doping in Sports and a viable solution

The use of drugs to enhance performance (Doping) is considered unethical by most international sports organizations, and the reasons for the ban are mainly the health risks of performance-enhancing drugs, the equality of opportunity for athletes, and the exemplary effect of drug-free sport for the public. Anti-doping authorities state that using performance-enhancing drugs goes against the "spirit of sport."

It is wrong to strip anyone of their achievements simply for the fact that they were caught in a lie, our used stimulants before or during  past competition. If the competition already took place and was not reported any wrongdoings at that time, it is too late.

It is wrong to go back in time and strip Olympic participants who used performance enhancing drugs, unless we go back 2000 years ago and start scrutinizing all horses in competition to find out what they were fed, and if doping was present. Unless we go back and analyze the creation of the medication Benzedrine, and its relation to sports, we can learn that amphetamine (another name for Benzedrine) leads to a lack of judgment and a willingness to take risks, which in sport could lead to better performances. We also learn that this medication should not be used while trying to fly an airplane. To properly judge any wrongdoing or bad activity in sports, it must be done before the game.  If later, much later, some wrongdoing transpires, it must be dealt on a management level, by firing all those who were involved in covering it up with the big organ or facility that sponsored the event. It should not ever be dealt with the individual athlete alone, especially if such individual went through “medical tests”, and passed them. If Doctors were involved, they are accountable. Not the player.

Like any other drug, doping can be addictive, and lead to death. Any sportsman, when on top is under pressure from sponsors, fans, and specially the team management. Youngsters are influenced by hungry managers.

Once it is proved that a player who won the tour of France, for example, was using doping, everyone in charge should be accountable for allowing such disgrace to take place, but not Armstrong, all by himself. He holds little, if not zero accountability because he is another victim of the “doping athlete’s system”, in existence since the beginning of times.

Furthermore, doping should be allowed in sports.  Sports will be a more challenging competition  of  super humans, capable of running one 1000 miles, or endure days of starvation, or a six-hour tennis match in the hot sun.  Anabolic steroids have been used for decades by all types of people, and a few died because they took it on their own, without a proper guidance.

I vote for science! I want to see a doping that is designed for each sport. A doping that when taken, does exactly what it is supposed to do. I want to see a complete engineering of doping been explored, created and presented.

We are spending too much money screening athletes, when we know that the entire system of screening doesn’t work well. It makes mistakes. In the end, people’s consciousness speaks louder. The athlete will drink alcohol and tell the truth about doping, and the newsman calls it "what is trending today".  Others athletes are caught during screening and later exposed. One way or another most will confide into others what took place. No one likes to be a cheater forever.

The biggest problem with doping is that because they are illegal, most drugs are not available in any market, and are created by private organs with the purpose of dominating the doping business. Doping has many side-effects, more so because it changes the entire metabolism of the body affecting liver, kidneys, and ultimately the heart. It tells the body to endure certain tasks, mostly physical, but it doesn’t tell the user it is addictive, and when mixed with any other medication can affect the emotional side, sometimes creating a beast out of a man.

People are addicted to sports. Sport is the mass form of entertainment. People go to stadiums, gymnasiums, tracks, etc. to see a competition of endurance. Removing doping from sports will encourage the doping pharmacy to create the newest undetectable drug that will enhance performance, available to a few, while everyone else will be in disadvantage.

My point is: It is a waste of time to watch someone to “fall from grace” when grace was everything, but graceful. We should hide it and move on. It is not even fair to expose how such athlete was caught, when we know that he did not act alone. Shame on inspectors! Shame on the team (athlete) management! Shame on the Athlete!  More shame to the industry that creates such a drug and places it into a clandestine market. Yes, it is a shame because these industries may as well have people in various areas of the sport, as inspector of this or that department and maintain control of this entire business of making, showing and destroying an athlete, while making millions of dollars, if not billions each year to control the anti-doping screening process worldwide. Who knows?

It is very ironic for us to get entangled into a dispute between something as banal as doping. Like any illegal market, doping has a lord behind a bigger lord who controls the entire monopoly of that commodity. Because it deals with drugs, it should be legalized once and for all. Lords should deal among themselves the process of legalization of all drugs, making the user liable for his actions. Prohibition will not work because it divides society. Today society is divided in the war against drugs. The same people, who plow, plant and harvest the drug, are doing for a larger group, this larger group is so large that it is composed of complete infra-structure for mass distribution. If a member decides to boycott or create a small distribution, this member will be then exposed to the media, the drug will be recuperated and burned and everyone is appeased.  The fight to control the drug distribution should be minimum, but it escalates when greedy from the lords dissatisfy those who are involved. The business is so big that it creates an entire army of soldier ready to fight against another group who is interested in taking the distribution away from them. These fights are orchestrated by the lords, who furnish artillery to both sides, control the fight and win regardless of the outcome because both sides’ works for the same lord.  Sometimes, to make it good with the authorities, the lord calls the police and gives a tip about the traffic that is taking place. It is usually done to expose certain individuals who are becoming trouble makers within the organization. Most have no desire to expose their bosses, and end up incarcerated for a while, returning to the same life as before.

The drug business is so large that no Lord will allow any country, nation, or any organization to take control. This business belongs to the richest group in the world, and if it could be combined with the group that owns the banking industry, it is fair to say that they own the whole world.

Now we can get to the point of the story.

An Athlete who uses doping is a human being who needs enhancement in certain areas. Unfortunately, the doping is a mixed bag of cocktails and medications that no one can ever imagine what could result from such act. He won, but probably will die not old enough to solidify roots.

If all medication are exposed ---- all competitions will be about who can get the best results with what type of medication. Nothing wrong with that! We will see super-humans doing things unimaginable if they can keep focus. If not, don’t post it.

Until a time when we find out that our mind can control our body, we will be taking all sorts of medication to better one thing or another. By allowing doping, science can study the consequences of each drug and eventually create one that is less damaging. Eventually they will create a drug that will enhance the brain to do its job without any other drug-related interaction.

Milton