temporary use exemption. what is the difference between putting stem cells in your body or testosterone? they both aid in (re)growth
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Therapeutic Use Exemptin
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one is a natural substance (just yourself) the other is synthetic.
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one doesn’t creat unnatural abilities, just helps you heal.
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one is not, AFAIK, not illegal.
At the end of the day, #4 is the only difference that matters.
ok , rehash… blood doping via stored high altitude blood and reinjecting your own blood at low altitude.
let me guess. you’re a young pup and never have had bone-on-bone disease. WRT the spirit of a TUE, how in any evaluation, could someone unable to run receive such an enourmous benefit from the ability to now hobble that it would prejudice their effort? how, in the spirit of competition, is taking a person unable to run to now able to hobble giving them an unfair advantage over the FOP athletes? seriously, you guys get such tunnel vision with your TUEs it isn’t funny.
i’ll out myself now. I likely went WAY overboard on albuterol in my last IM on the last lap. I can’t remember how many hits i took off that puffer - i stopped counting at 10. i think 17 or so is over the legal limit. And you know what it got me? I went from 3rd in my category to 8th. I finished walking. I couldn’t breathe and walk and eat at the same time, so i just walked and breathed. if i wanted to take on nutrition i would have to completely lie down and only breathe and eat/drink. that was the HUGE advantage i had by taking over the legal limit of albuterol. So yeah, I was totally a doper. A doper who could not eat and walk and breathe at the same time because i couldn’t get in enough oxygen to do so. explain to me how i took advantage of the field like that?
there is clear-cut doping and there are huge grey areas. when you are so disadvantaged that the “doping” only allows you to finish and not excel, i fail to see how it creates such an unfair advantage.