lhpoulin wrote:
If you read the TUE, unless he can prove WHY he needs the Testerone, he has 0 chance of getting approved. Regardless of his testosterone level. Even IF he can prove why he needs to take it, it must be an Organic cause, read something like a anatomical problem. If it's a Functional cause, you're completely screwed. If a guy is taking TRT just to get to a 500 to 700 ng/mL level isn't cheating plain and simple. People will disagree with that and it's their right to do so. But I, for one, don't see USADA/WADA as a body capable of rightly determining what the cutoff level is for medical treatments of any variety and then enforcing it consistently. They've proven that they can't do so already. Hope Solo, Levi, entire sports like cycling et al... They bust who they want, when they want, and how hard they want. If someone they don't want to get busted tests positive, they make it go away or give them a wrist slap.
What was wrong with the hope solo incident? She'd been seeing the same doctor for years (as opposed to some doctor she went to looking for some extra help), the prescription was for an item on the specified list, which USAT/USADA recognizes as items that are more likely to be inadvertent use of, so they gave her a warning as there appeared to be no intent. As for Levi, I assume you're talking about the original case, not his stuff involving Lance? rules were different then, and if USAC had results management as i believe they did, USADA cant do much about it. if youre talking about the USPS related case, it's another point people disagree on, but they use the same type of sentencing our legal system does for those who give evidence, and to me thats a good thing. I've learned most of what I know about anti-doping from ex-dopers, so if reduced sentences are what it takes to get people to talk, more power to them.
Finally, I think taking anything that makes your life good and is healthy for your body is a good thing. However I dont think you should be allowed to compete, even if you and your doctor feel it is just making you "normal" if it a product like testosterone. Very simply put, it's impossible to know that maybe 1/2 the "standard range" is normal for you, and you can compete just fine like that, and effectively doubling your ng/ml would then clearly be doping. Since they have no way of knowign that, all they can do is set a hard line and follow it.
