BigBoyND wrote:
dcpinsonn wrote:
Feel like it fits into this thread. Can we get excited about fast AG times if fast AGers mostly don't get tested? We all know about the study from a decade ago where a good chunk of people admitted to doping -- & those are just the people who admitted to it. But my predisposition is to be excited about bad times/be excited for people & condemn people who are caught cheating. It would be pretty bleak to be a fan of the sport if you don't think anybody is competing clean.
Are you referring to the study which includes caffeine as "psychological doping" and creatine as "physical doping"? Because I'd have to answer yes to both of those questions, too...
If a substance isn't banned then taking it is not illegal, not cheating, not unfair. Doping in sport has a very clear definition of taking banned substances for performance enhancement. Getting mad at someone who beats you because they took legal stuff like creatine and caffeine is like getting mad because they went to altitude camp, or ate more nutritiously, or even just trained harder.
There's (very very good) articles and posts here from Dr. Alex that lay out ratios and consumption rates of fructose and maltodextrin that are shown to boost performance by rather a lot. Is that cheating? Maltodextrin doesn't even occur in nature so surely one could stretch and call that chemical enhancement.
Providing a performance benefit is not enough to classify a substance as 'doping'.