Doping

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:

> I'm no doping expert, but I recently read a long article in the New 
> Yorker about doping in cycling and other endurance sports.  The 
> upshot is that many people think the doping standards give so much 
> leeway and are so lax that if you are caught doping, it is 
definitely 
> because you were doping.  

Nor am I a doping expert (or skating: who is Michelle Kwan? Who is 
Sarah Hughes?  is there a reason I should care?), so I have a 
question that the media in their frenzy to be whiter-than-white anti-
doping never seem to answer:

Is there any hard evidence that taking drugs actually improves 
performance?  Or is it all just a myth, fostered by the legendary 
superstition of athletes?

Oh, and BTW, congratulations to Tabouli on whoeveritwas winning Gold 
in whateveritwas for Australia.  Apparently Britain has its first 
Gold for umpteen years now - something to do with putting tongs in 
your hair, or leaving lettuce in the sun too long, I think.

David