RowToTri wrote:
wannabefaster wrote:
DomerTriGuy wrote:
SBRcoffee wrote:
Tricoastal wrote:
....Are athletes expected to test every single supplement they take? The manufacturer of the supplement screwed up, not the athlete.Yes.
Not saying that is easy or necessarily right, but athletes are responsible for -everything- they put in their bodies.
If I were an athlete in this circumstance, and I without a doubt was able to prove it was a contaminated supplement, I'd sure consider suing the manufacturer!
I don't even have a sense how expensive or feasible this would be to test everything before you take it. You can't even just test the product, you would have to test each tablet, packet, gel, etc. since a specific lot could be contaminated. Is a home test for all banned substances available, affordable, and could return results fast enough to take what you just tested before it goes bad since it could be perishable?
This loops back around to what some people have already said; that using "supplements" is flirting with disaster. And lets face it, most people that are using supplements are looking for performance benefits/advantages over their competition. Legally, yes, but still, that is the whole point of putting these supplements in to your body. Hopefully everything in them is above board and maybe you eke out a 0.5% performance gain, but you must acknowledge the risk that a supplement contains undisclosed stuff that could result in a positive test. Safer to avoid supplements altogether.
What to do? Food. Balanced diet. I do use gels (Powerbar gels are my favorite) and sports drink (Infinit, UCan and Gatorade). Fairly reputable companies that I have to trust are keeping everything on the up and up. If I ever test positive for something (and I dream of being fast enough to be worth testing), I'll at least know where to start looking.
How is using gels and Infinit any different than taking a salt tab? Doesn't infinit contain the same ingredients as most salt tabs? If you are going to condemn people for looking for advantages over their competition (which by your language infers that it is somehow immoral or unfair let legal) and flirting with disaster by taking salt tabs and then in the next paragraph you say you just eat food... oh and infinit and gels... what point are you trying to make?
Maybe my point, in retrospect, is that we are all fucked.
ETA. My other point, not necessarily related to these two athletes, is that if you are taking Super"T"CyberGeni-Platinum/Carbon-Endurance Booster that you ordered because someone said that it would make you faster...... it wouldn't be that shocking if there were undisclosed ingredients. Caveat emptor.
ps. I think salt tabs are mostly voodoo.
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Jason
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wannabefaster: Feb 4, 17 11:39