To the people who believe Olympic athletes are doping, how can the athletes pass/avoid the anti-doping tests that they do? Wouldn’t it just result as positive and they be disqualified? Unless perhaps these tests fail on occasion?
To the people who believe Olympic athletes are doping, how can the athletes pass/avoid the anti-doping tests that they do? Wouldn’t it just result as positive and they be disqualified? Unless perhaps these tests fail on occasion?
NB : I don’t know.
Some drugs are allowed outside of competition, whether these have long lasting effects is unknown to me but possible.
Some molecule-related drugs are not illegal per se and are on a dosage based threshold. If you are naturally under this threshold you’d benefit from taking it “legally” up to that threshold.
And of course the literal million dollar question being, how do you test for X molecule if you don’t know to look for it ? It’s a cat and mouse game between pharmaceutical companies and WADA. As long as you’re ahead, you’re safe.
A quick example is Tramadol, a popular drug that i’ve been personally prescribed for back pain (don’t take that shit, it’s bad). It wasn’t banned until recently, now it is. Does that mean previous athletes who used Tramadol were doping ?
The TL:DR is that it doesn’t matter anyway. Talent still exists. I strongly believe that most athletes stay in the legal realm, but that doesn’t mean they’re not doping, they might just not be doping “yet” officially.