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Re: AG drug testing: so, what changes? [gleveq]
And again, as I've stated a couple of times here, I understand that we choose this. And I'm fine with you opening yourself up to those abuses. But now you want to tell me that if I want to continue to play, I have to open myself up to the same abuses.

And for what? So that you can be sure that you weren't cheated out of a kona slot?

No prize money here. No endorsements. Nobody's livelihood is being threatened. I now have to submit to a drug test to make others feel better about what they spent all the money on. Or I can choose not to enter. Before I didn't have to do that. There is a new barrier to my entry. You also made a choice. You chose to spend all that money and time on this sport. Nobody made you. But now you feel that entitles you to my blood. I disagree.

Remember, they test for PEDs and they test for recreational drugs. I see no prohibition on them keeping samples as long as they want. TUEs, etc. It is a record. It can be subpoena-ed by the government if they choose. Am I worried about that? Do I do recreational drugs? Of course not. That's not the point. It's none of their damn business. Its one more nail in the coffin of my privacy or give up the fun thing that I love.

They can screw it up. Wait, correction. They WILL screw it up. If there is one thing that history has shown, they absolutely without question WILL screw it up. They will release information they are not supposed to. They already do it with elites. They will get tests wrong. Maybe there are things in my blood that aren't illegal but that somebody wants to know about. Maybe I need a TUE for something my employer or insurer wants to know about. We keep medical records private for a reason. But now to do this hobby, we have to let more people know about them. All so you can feel better about spending all that money.

And when it comes time for me to have to sign on the dotted line, I probably will. I have the relief of knowing I'm not headed for Kona anytime soon. But if some drug tester comes by, I wonder if I won't just tell him to go screw purely on principle and then give up a hobby I really like.

The irony of all of this is that you end up your post with the statement

"I struggle to understand those who attempt to turn a recreational activity into something more"

I think adding drug testing of age-groupers completes the transformation
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