Doping in sports

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Many people also find Carlos Alcaraz’s transformation from skinny to muscular in 6 months suspicious, also note the acne in his face…

Both Nadal and Alcaraz are sponsored by Nike, Nadal’s and Djokovic’s main competitor for years, Roger Federer, was also sponsored by Nike.
Jannik Sinner (also sponsored by Nike…), the current No 1 men’s tennis player, tested positive for clostebol (a steroid) both on 10 and 18 March.

So Sinner was cleared of wrongdoing, after coming up with the strange excuse that the doping got into his body by his physiotherapist treating himself with a cream containing clostebol, which then supposedly caused Sinner testing positive. Sinner also suffers from the skin condition psoriasiform dermatitis (this isn’t acne), which supposedly helped the steroids to get into his body through his skin.

Instead of being banned, Sinner since he was informed of his positive test in April, withdrew from the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open citing a hip injury, and didn’t compete again for 27 days until his first round match at the French Open.
While he wasn’t suspended, Sinner did lose his points and prize money at Indian Wells (where he tested positive): https://www.theguardian.com/sport/artic ... sts-tennis

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Former world nr. 1, Simona Halep, had her ban greatly reduced after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), even though her excuse that she took the banned substance roxadustat unintentionally by ingesting a contaminated supplement could never account for the test results, that could only be explained by a doping program

Jannik Sinner’s coach happens to be Darren Cahill, that is also the former coach of Simona Halep and Andre Agassi: https://archive.is/DkYmT

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Many people find Rafael Nadal’s physique an indication of steroids use.

Rafael Nadal, like Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods, has used Plasma Rich Platelet therapy (PRP or bloodspinning) on his aching knees and back. This dramatically boosts production of performance-enhancing Human Growth Hormone in the body.

It was banned by doping agency WADA in 2010, but then made legal again at the start of 2011. So you can’t blame Nadal for using this legalised doping.
This could be a motivation to whine about injuries as this gives the possibility of using this entirely legal doping: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tenni ... built.html


Even before it was legalised, Nadal and Tiger Woods got a TUE to use PRP: http://plateletrichplasma.blogspot.com/ ... treat.html


In 2009, PRP pioneer, Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, was arrested in Canada for smuggling human growth hormone (HGH) and Actovegin into the US (in Canada HGH is legal). Galea treated Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey, when he was still active.
This suggests Galea was combining his PRP therapy with the banned doping HGH: https://archive.is/IFnac

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I’m certainly not the only one to think that the Jamaican sprinters dominating the world stage since 2008 are suspicious.
While in 1988 it was impossible to run the 100 m. in 9.79 seconds without doping, Usain Bolt ran world records of 9.72 and 9.69 seconds in 2008. Especially the second of these, that won him gold at the Beijing Olympics, was amazing, in which Bolt obliterated the rest of the field and already started celebrating 20 meters before the finish line, or he would have probably run more than 0.10 seconds faster.

Before 2008, Bolt’s personal best on the 100 meter was 10.03 seconds…
At the 2009 World Championships, Bolt ran his personal best world record of 9.58 seconds, a time that could remain the world record for another decade.

In time a lot of top 100 m. sprinters have been caught with banned performance-enhancing drugs. All the sprinters running top 40 times (when the article was written in 2016) on the 100 meter sprint have been caught with doping (all of them Jamaicans and Americans), except for the amazing Usain Bolt.


In 2009, 5 Jamaican athletes tested positive for doping, the first year that JADCO was actually doing doping tests on Jamaican athletes. Two of these athletes belonged to the Racers Track Club and were coached by Glen Mills, like Usain Bolt. The 5 athletes - Yohan Blake, Marvin Anderson, Allodin Fothergill, Lansford Spence and Sheri-Ann Brooks - were banned for a mere 3 months by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission.
The Jamaican team doctor was Herb Elliot, who became chairman of the Jamaican “anti” doping agency JADCO. In 2012, JADCO conducted only 106 tests, while in 2012 Iceland conducted 113, Iran 181, the US 4,051, UK 5,971 and China 10,066 doping tests.
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Even WADA found that JADCO needed to do more (better?) doping tests:

Less than a month after World Anti-Doping Agency officials visited Jamaica to conduct what the nation’s minister for sport called an “extraordinary audit,” the entire board of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission and its chairman, Dr. Herb Elliot, have resigned.
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As Simon Hart of the Telegraph in the UK reports, JADCO’s former executive director, Renee Anne Shirley, revealed in a Sports Illustrated article that the organization conducted only one out-of-competition drug test in the five months leading up to the 2012 Olympics, that it had never conducted a blood test on an athlete, and that it was perpetually understaffed.

https://archive.is/R6DOs


Usain Bolt was treated by the controversial German doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, who was already a team doctor for Bayern München in 1977.
Muller-Wohlfahrt performed some strange medical experiments on his clients: https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/i ... ve-syringe


At the 2008 Beijing Olympics (where Usain Bolt won 3 gold medals, also setting world records at the 200 m individually and the 4x100m relay), clenbuterol was detected in “several” unnamed Jamaican sprinters’ urine samples.
The IOC for some strange reason decided to not pursue the cases.

The IOC argued that because in China clenbuterol was used to increase the weight of cattle they figured that the cases couldn’t pass a legal banning proceeding.
That’s despite that the organisers of the 2008 Games took precautions to ensure meat was clean, and the Jamaican team flew in their own meat from home…

It’s obvious that some athletes are more “equal” that others, as some get banned for the same doping violations for which others get a free pass (often coming up with some BS explanation, like contaminated supplements).
In 2011, WADA and FIFA likewise decided not to pursue positive clenbuterol cases against “scores” of soccer players: https://www.vice.com/en/article/did-the ... mplicated/


According to some “conspiracy theorists” Usain Bolt is a member of the “illuminati”.
Bolt has blatantly been showing off masonic hand gestures, and even wore a freemasonic ring (with the square and compass) in an official video for the Singapore 2010 youth Olympic Games..


See another rumoured illuminati member, Ellen DeGeneres, riding the GOAT (Usain the “greatest of all time” sprinter)…

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/20 ... world.html


On 7 August 2024, it was reported that the USADA decided not to ban athletes that tested positive for banned doping, instead using them as undercover agents (to help them ban others?!?).
The WADA allowed USADA to act like this, without even disclosing who the cheating American athletes were: https://archive.is/hxTWz

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Here’s a long list of historic doping cases in top football (that Americans for some reason call “soccer”…), most of which have never become scandals.
Most of the “evidence” is anecdotal, based on the statements of one or two (former) players or doctors.

In 1954, West-Germany won the World Cup. Following the final, syringes and needles were found in the German locker room. The German team doctor claimed he had injected a placebo (case closed…)!

In the 1960’s, Inter Milan was arguably the best European team, which included Sandro Mazzola.
Sandro’s brother, Ferruccio Mazzola, was also on the team, but rarely played. In his autobiography, Ferruccio spoke openly about the doping practises of team manager Hellenio Herrera.

The players of the Ajax Amsterdam that won the European Cup in 1971, 1972 and 1973, “occasionaly received pills” from doctor Rolink.
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Usain Bolt was treated by the controversial German doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, who was already a team doctor for Bayern München in 1977.
Muller-Wohlfahrt performed some strange medical experiments on his clients

In 1977, Franz Beckenbauer told in an interview that he was getting blood transfusions “the injection of my own blood”.
As far as I can tell this wasn’t banned at the time…

In May 1980, a non-famous player of Feyenoord Rotterdam, Jan Peters, told he “received all kinds of stuff before important matches. A cup with a drink, a pill, and a needle that went into my upper arm. I have no idea what it was. I didn’t care. But ten minutes into the game I felt a boost of energy. After the game, far into the night, I was still doing back flips in the discotheque”.
He also used doping when he was playing for teams in other countries. At the time there were no doping tests at all.

Out of nowhere Algeria qualified for 2 World Cups, including in 1982 when they beat West-Germany.
The team received performance-enhancing drugs from their Soviet doctor.

In the 1980s, “in the Bundesliga it is common gossip. Especially before start of the season it’s a topic with new players. How much they swallowed at their former club, and what it preferred at their new club. Doping is just as much the norm in football as in other sports”.

The Brazilian Zico confessed to doping in 1987.

In the early 1990’s, Olympique Marseille not only won by match fixing, but they also got suspicious injections.

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Pieter van den Hoogenband’s father, Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband, who had been doctor for the top soccer club PSV Eindhoven, in late 2016 was selected as a doping expert (really!) for the “anti” doping agency WADA

The young Brazilian Ronaldo (sponsored by Nike), during his period at PSV Eindhoven received steroids.


At the start of and during the 1998 World Cup, some of the players for England took injections from the French doctor Rougier, “some of the lads said they’d felt a real burst of energy”.

The Argentinian Matias Almeyda spoke about doping use at Parma, where he played from 2000 to 2002.

In 2006, Spanish investigators uncovered a doping network around doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, which included some star cyclists. For some reason they “forgot” to investigate and report on Fuentes also supplying soccer players with performance-enhancing drugs.
While it has been disclosed that Fuentes’ client list included Real Sociedad, the other clubs were “officially” kept secret. According to a French publication, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona were also among Fuentes’s clients: https://archive.is/ZXYtz
(https://web.archive.org/web/20130313012 ... -evidence/)

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There are some 140,000 professional footballers in the world, but only about 40,000 doping tests per year (that’s including some tests of amateurs…). So on average, a professional football player gets tested less than once every 3 1/2 years.
A former professional footballer asked current players across Germany, Spain and Sweden about their doping experiences. Of the 124 that answered, “between 14% and 30% of players had doped in the previous year” (why not a more precise percentage?!?), with the rates highest in Germany and Spain.
Of the 15 Premier League footballers that failed drugs tests from 2015 to 2020, none were banned.

In the late 1990’s, Juventus (that in 2003 started to be endorsed by Nike) won 3 Italian championships, reached 3 successive Champions League finals and won a World Club Cup. Juventus had some of the top football players at the time, like: Zidane, Vialli, Del Piero, Deschamps, Ravanelli and Vieri. Antonio Conte was Juventus’s captain during this period.


After years of doping allegations, Juventus was raided and the cops found 281 pharmaceutical products.
Dr. Giuseppe D’Onofrio, later testified in court that he was “practically certain” that Conte and fellow midfielder Alessio Taccinardi, who never failed doping tests, had used EPO, and that it was “very probable” that also Alessandro Del Piero, Didier Deschamps (that in 1993 won the Champions League with Olympique Marseille), Alessandro Birindelli, Dimas, Paolo Montero, Gianluca Pessotto and Moreno Torricelli had used EPO.

In 2004, chief executive Antonio Giraudo and club doctor Riccardo Agricola were prosecuted. Giraudo was acquitted, and while Agricola was initially given a suspended prison sentence for supplying performance enhancing drugs, including EPO, he was later cleared of wrongdoing and could continue as Juventus’ doctor. Neither the club nor any player received any punishment.
Conte later admitted that when he played at Juventus, he’d taken anti-depressants and IV drips containing what he was told were “vitamins”.

In 1998, doctor Jerome Malza told that he had given EPO to unnamed Serie A footballers.

In 2005, the Portuguese Abel Xavier got an 18-month ban after testing positive for the anabolic steroid Dianabol when he was playing for Middlesbrough.

During the 2018 World Cup, the names of Russian internationals who had failed doping tests but not been punished were published.
The corrupt lab boss, Grigory Rodchenkov, was at the heart of the scandal. Rodchenkov said Sergey Pukhov had “very good practical experience” of doping sportspeople. Pukhov had been doctor at Russia’s Zenit St Petersburg from 2006 to 2017 and had also been a Russian Olympic doctor.

In 2001, the Dutch Jaap Stam (while playing for Lazio) and Edgar Davids (at Juventus, who later also played for Barca) got 4-month bans for testing positive for nandrolone, like Frank de Boer (playing for Barcelona at the time).
This made some believe that the Dutch national football team (sponsored by Nike) were juiced to the max: https://archive.is/49719


In May 2001, Frank de Boer tested positive for nandrolone when he played for Barcelona (sponsored by Nike), whose doctor was Ramon Segura, that at the time was also the personal doctor for Pep Guardiola playing for Brescia, who also tested positive for nandrolone in 2001. Both players were suspended for a couple of months…
In 2009, when Pep Guardiola became manager for Barcelona (which included football legend Lionel Messi), he hired none other than Dr. Ramon Segura …

Pep Guardiola is now the manager for Manchester City, arguably the best club team in the world, owned and controlled by the Abu Dhabi (UAE) royals.
https://youtu.be/rlwbeOxBRSg
https://www.sportingintelligence.com/20 ... ht-250401/

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One of the problems with stories about doping, is that they can actually promote abuse of performance-enhancing drugs.

There are lots of conspiracy theories that ALL the deaths in relatively young (former) professional athletes are caused by the COVID vaccines. I’m thinking that doping is a more probable cause.
The problem in comparing the death rates in former elite athletes with the general population, is that many in the latter category don’t exercise enough, so without the negative effects of doping the professional athletes should live longer.
It is an established fact, that ALL professional bodybuilders, since at least the late 1950’s, have been massively using performance-enhancing drugs, not only steroids, but these days also diuretics and insulin. Probably the bodybuilders that not quite make it into becoming professionals lack the professional medical care that the pros have, so would be more at risk from dying because of doping abuse.

In the US, the mortality rates for pro-bodybuilders is slightly better than for the general population, which includes: 43% obese and 14% that smoke tobacco. That’s not even counting that people with a serious health condition are unlikely to pursue competitive bodybuilding. So, without the steroids abuse, pro bodybuilders should be living substantially longer than average.
65 and over former pro bodybuilders seem to die at a much lower rate than their younger peers. This suggests that the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs is getting worse more recently (for the younger generations).

Bodybuilders die especially much more of heart disease and kidney failure than the general American. On the contrary, cancer deaths are significantly lower than average in the pro bodybuilder group.
Notice the 6 times higher death rates from heart attacks for the 20-44 pro bodybuilder age group, compared to the average, while for over-65 the death rates for the bodybuilders are much lower (which you would expect as they work out and have a low bodyfat percentage)…


Professional bodybuilders on average die much younger than NFL and MLB players, even though many of these were also abusing doping, but likely at much lower rates than the average pro bodybuilder.
Pro wrestling is really an extreme sort of bodybuilding (that use at least as much doping as the “normal” pro bodybuilders), and these pros (bodybuilding actors…) die at a much higher rate than “normal” pro bodybuilders.

https://thebarbell.com/do-pro-bodybuild ... n-average/
(https://web.archive.org/web/20231218184 ... n-average/)


Here’s a small sample of muscular bodybuilders dying young, many from heart attacks.
https://youtu.be/bDAT-XTjBSw


You can see that (because of doping I presume) that the standardized mortality rates (SMR) for age groups until 64 are worse for the German professional athletes, but better for elder former top sportspeople.
The probable cause is performance-enhancing drugs. Also notice that the trend gets worse for the younger generations from 1956 to 2017, because more and more are juiced I guess (like the bodybuilders!).

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sp ... 88204/full

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It is a blatant example of double standards that - with the majority of cycling heroes doping cheaters - that Lance Armstrong was even retroactively stripped of his record-breaking 7 Tour de France victories, while I haven’t heard about them testing the blood samples of other cycling champions.

Silly me, it’s actually not uncommon for athletes to lose medals years later. I suspect however that some are more “equal” than others, which makes doping bans political and commercial motivated…
Of the top 9 in the women's 1500m final at London 2012 Olympic Games, 5 have been taken from the results because of doping violations (many discovered years later). Because the top 2 finishers were stripped from their medals, the original 3rd place finisher Bahrain's Maryam Yusuf Jamal (born in Ethiopia) won the gold medal.

Ethiopian-born Swede Abeba Aregawi has now been awarded the silver medal after recently another athlete was suspended for a doping violation. Aregawi also failed a doping test in 2016 but for some reason wasn’t banned.
I suspect that these bans are politically motivated, with athletes from Turkey (2), Russia (2) and Belarus getting banned, while the “clean” athletes in this race come from Ethiopia/Bahrain, Ethiopia/Sweden, US, Slovakia, Great Britain (2) and Kenya: https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/art ... wlqxkn5x8o

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Since 2017, 13 professional footballers in Spain have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but only 2 of these were banned, with one remaining anonymous, and the other - Papu Gomez – allowed to play and win for the Argentina national team at the 2022 World Cup after testing positive for terbutaline, a month before the World Cup.
Some 10 months after the positive test, Gomez was banned from sport for 2 years by the Spanish “anti” doping agency (CELAD), bizarrely backdated to before the start of Qatar 2022 (which means that he is effectively banned for 14 months).

In running relay events if one of the athletes tests positive for performance-enhancing drugs, the whole team gets stricken from the result. For some reason this doesn’t apply to football, where depending on the player/team, he is allowed to keep playing and/or the “anti” doping agency covers up the positive doping test altogether.

Because football matches are often only decided by 1 or 2 goals, it is arguably the easiest sport to rig by referees, for example by (not) awarding penalties or red cards. Penalties are often hotly debated by fans, and as referees do make unintentional mistakes, it remains impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they are intentionally manipulating the outcome of games.
There are many, many stories on FIFA corruption, which includes which countries get to host the World Cup (or other important matches).

I think that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (that owned the PSG with the big stars of both teams in the final – Messi and Mbappé) was rigged so that the elderly “GOAT” Lionel Messi could finally win his world cup.


Argentina got a record-breaking 5 penalties awarded to them in only 7 games, out of which Messi scored (only) 4 (of his total of 7 goals).

In the quarterfinals against the Netherlands, the referee made multiple dubious calls in favour of Argentina, including when Messi deliberately handed a ball but wasn’t given a second yellow card (which would have sent him off).
After a blatant foul on Nathaniel Ake, Leandro Parades kicked the ball directly at the Dutch dugout. Paredes received a justifiable yellow for the foul, but none for shooting the ball at the Dutch bench (which should have gotten him at least another yellow card, so should have sent him off).
Incredibly the Argentinian players, including Messi himself, criticised the referee after the game.
https://youtu.be/uQiD0bTRFMU
https://archive.is/UWQxi

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Shaquille O’Neal increased his bodyweight from 294 pounds in 1992 to 341 pounds in 2002, and even 370 pounds in the 2003-2004 season when he still played for the Lakers. It looks to me that most of this added weight of 76 pounds were muscles (he only became fat after he left the Miami Heat). Tall men often have difficulty adding muscles to their frame (at least without performance-enhancing drugs…).
It DOES looks like his skull size increased considerably, which could only be explained by steroids (shouldn’t his head look smaller compared to his bigger body?!?).

https://archive.is/FwcER

Shaq himself boasted about his bodyweight at the Lakers: 2000 - 345 pounds; 2001 - 365 pounds; 2002 - 395 pounds (I doubt the 395 pound, heavier than the listed heaviest NBA player of all time, Oliver Miller at 375 pounds, 170 kilograms): https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/shaq ... kers-title

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LeBron’s son, Bronny James, suffered a heart attack last year.
Shaq’s son, Shareef O’Neal, who also plays in the NBA, underwent open heart surgery 6 years ago.

If it weren’t for performance-enhancing drugs abuse, I would expect that (former) NBA players are healthier than the average and would live longer (although I would expect serious injuries/disabilities of their back and knees).
For some reason the following essay on health problems (many heart related) of former NBA players “forgets” the possibility that these health problems were caused by performance-enhancing drugs…

In 2015, former NBA players Moses Malone (60 years), Darryl Dawkins, Anthony Mason, Christian Welp and Jack Haley died from heart-related issues, the later 4 younger than 60.
Jerome Kersey died suddenly (aged 52) of a pulmonary thromboembolism.

“Current” NBA players LaMarcus Aldridge, Jeff Green and Channing Frye have had heart issues.
Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg retired early because of a heart condition and underwent open heart surgery.
Eddy Curry was hospitalised with an irregular heartbeat at age 22.

John “Hot Rod” Williams also died aged 53 in 2015 from prostate cancer.
Manute Bol died at 47 from acute kidney failure.
Larry Bird has an enlarged heart and atrial fibrillation, typical for steroid abuse.

The second best NBA’s all-time leading scorer (behind LeBron James), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, underwent quadruple coronary bypass surgery in 2015, 6 years after he was sentenced to a form of blood cancer: https://www.bergerhenryent.com/do-nba-b ... die-young/


The NBA only stared testing for drugs in 1983… not performance-enhancing drugs, but cocaine. It took until 2000 for the first NBA player - Don MacLean - to be suspended for performance-enhancing drugs.
Until they started testing for performance-enhancing drugs, it was effectively allowed to use doping by (alll) NBA payers…

According to some, Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest basketball player of all time. None other than steroid muscle freak Arnold Schwarzenegger that has already survived multiple heart surgeries, called Chamberlain the strongest man he ever met.
Wilt Chamberlain died at only 63 years from a heart attack, apparently nobody thinks this could have been caused by steroids (or other performance-enhancing drugs): https://drmirkin.com/histories-and-myst ... ttack.html


Wilt Chamberlain, like basketball legend Michael Jordan, was addicted to gambling (besides exaggerating his accomplishments): https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/fb ... n-1.198253


As steroids and human growth hormones can help to build more muscle than naturally possible, it is suspicious when professional NBA players have BMI’s above 30, without being obese (the following 2 have/had even higher BMI’s than 50-year old Firestarter)…
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Shaq himself boasted about his bodyweight at the Lakers: 2000 - 345 pounds; 2001 - 365 pounds; 2002 - 395 pounds

Shaquille O'Neal has a listed weight of 147 kg when he played in the NBA, at a height of 2.16 meters this puts his BMI at 31.5 (I would certainly not dare to call the 147 kg Shaq obese, to his face…).

Zion Williamson, who jumps around the rim like a young Vince Carter when he’s not injured, has the highest BMI of the now active NBA players, at a listed weight of 127 kg and 1.98 m height he has a BMI of 32.4.

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In every sport in which concentration is important - like tennis, gymnastics, baseball pitcher or football quarterback - amphetamines could make a difference. For endurance sports – e.g. marathon, cycling or triathlon – amphetamines would be useless.

Other than I thought, amphetamines also increase athletic performance, and were already taken by athletes in the 1950s:

Amphetamine is used by some athletes for its psychological and athletic performance-enhancing effects, such as increased endurance and alertness; however, non-medical amphetamine use is prohibited at sporting events that are regulated by collegiate, national, and international anti-doping agencies. In healthy people at oral therapeutic doses, amphetamine has been shown to increase muscle strength, acceleration, athletic performance in anaerobic conditions, and endurance (i.e., it delays the onset of fatigue), while improving reaction time. Amphetamine improves endurance and reaction time primarily through reuptake inhibition and release of dopamine in the central nervous system. Amphetamine and other dopaminergic drugs also increase power output at fixed levels of perceived exertion by overriding a "safety switch", allowing the core temperature limit to increase in order to access a reserve capacity that is normally off-limits.
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Amphetamine is generally only detectable by a standard drug test for approximately 24 hours, although a high dose may be detectable for 2–4 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine

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Technically speaking, performance-enhancing drugs are only doping when they are banned (so “Legalised doping” is a contradictio in terminis)…


Designer drugs are designed to mimic the effects of some illegal drug to avoid classification as banned.
Because they aren’t the same as the banned doping, they are legal to take by professional athletes.

Because they aren’t properly tested before being used, they are even more dangerous than the original performance-enhancing drugs, with unclear benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_drug


While creatine is a performance enhancing drug, it isn’t banned.
The reasoning behind this, is that supposedly it has no adverse effects when properly used, which I find hard to believe.

Creatine increases energy in the muscles, which can boost performance during both competition and training.
It also makes the muscles retain water which causes weight gain, which can be bad for the performance of endurance athletes, like long distance runners or cyclists.

There are also stories that creatine should be a banned doping, because it has serious adverse effects. The stories on whether creatine has adverse effects or not contradict each other, and I don’t know enough about this.
The following link lists some alleged adverse effects of creatine: https://wellbeingport.com/is-creatine-b ... -olympics/


Here is insider Victor Conte Jr. that was at the centre of the BALCO scandal; he spent a total of 4 months in prison, and made millions of dollars.
Conte shows that the doping testing is as corrupt as politicians, and easy to circumvent, up until the 2024 Paris Olympics. Which essentially makes it allowed to use doping in professional sports.
https://youtu.be/2op5XG7LGkI

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There are also some who claim that the only way Jordan became the “greatest” is because the NBA is rigged with corrupt referees, always giving fouls in Jordan’s favour…
https://youtu.be/9M-KCulzJqg

https://youtu.be/mmlfiMDUTQ4

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I’ve searched in vain for some 20 minute video that shows how the referees helped the Chicago Bulls of Michael Jordan and freemason Scottie Pippen win 6 NBA championships in the 1990s...
Here are 3 additional videos with some examples of bad referee whistles in favour of the Bulls during the 1997 and 1998 playoffs.

One of the tallest men ever to play in the NBA, the 2.31 m Gheorghe Mureșan, in several games of the 1997 playoffs between the Bulls and Washington Bullets was literally fought by the “small” in comparison Dennis Rodman. Muresan gets technical fouls, when Rodman is pushing, hitting him. I feel sorry for Muresan…
https://youtu.be/Vr4PwERFlio


In the 1997 NBA finals Game 6 between Bulls and Utah Jazz, Scottie Pippen disrupts the rim which should have been a goaltending call, but the referees “forgot” to blow the whistle on this very important play.
https://youtu.be/HEF-FdPH9YM


In 1998, Jordan, Pippen and Rodman were past their prime, the Bulls weren’t the best team in the NBA (anymore), and they could only win their 6th title with a little help from their referee friends. I expect that there are a lot more examples in 1998…
In the 6th game of the finals between the Bulls and Jazz, the referees made 2 bad decisions in favour of the Bulls (of course), which helped the Bulls win. This series should have been decided in a game 7 instead, for which the Jazz would have been favourite as Pippen suffered from a serious back injury.

Jazz guard Howard Eisley shot a 3-pointer clearly in time, but the referees ruled there was a shot-clock violation. On the other hand, with less than 4 minutes remaining and the Bulls trailing 79-77, Ron Harper shot a game tying 2-pointer that left his hands when time had already expired.
https://youtu.be/JyBLgr6uBas
https://www.sportscasting.com/news/refs ... oric-game/

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In August, tennis star Iga Swiatek – then ranked WTA number one, currently no. 2 - tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition test and was secretly banned for a month.
The “anti” doping agency simply accepted her lame excuse that she took it unintentional. I guess that nobody understands that even if such a lame excuse is actually true, a player is responsible for whatever is in his system, even if she/he took the banned substance unknowingly.
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Jannik Sinner (also sponsored by Nike…), the current No 1 men’s tennis player, tested positive for clostebol (a steroid) both on 10 and 18 March.

Novak Djokovic criticises how Jannik Sinner’s doping case was handled. At first it seemed to me that he insinuated that Sinner should have been banned a considerable amount of time (like his friend Nick Kyrgios stated), but he now says that Sinner is completely innocent, which makes his statements sound like ALL players should get such lenient doping bans as the top players after coming up with some lame excuse.

Some players with lower rankings waiting for their case to be resolved for over a year. I've been really frustrated ... to see we've been kept in the dark for at least five months.

https://youtu.be/JUMwvUAIzJ4
https://www.thedailystar.net/tennis/new ... es-3786906


In a strange twist, after he fired his old physical team that didn’t prevent him testing positive twice for the doping he took, Jannik Sinner has hired Novak Djokovic’s former fitness coach Marco Panichi and physiotherapist Ulises Badio.
Panichi was part of Djokovic’s team from 2019 to 2024: https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/ ... ises-Badio


In 2010, nobody could have predicted that Novak Djokovic would become the GOAT of tennis, winning a total of (singles) 24 Grand Slam titles (with more to come?). Djokovic was born in 1987 and by the end of 2010 had won (only) 1 Grand Slam.

For comparison, some other tennis legends…
Rafael Nadal (born in 1986) won a total of 22 Grand Slam titles, of which he had won 6 by the end of 2009.
Roger Federer (born in 1981) won 20 Grand Slams, of which he had won 4 by the end of 2004.
Pete Sampras (born in 1971) won 14 Grand Slams, of which he had won 5 by the end of 1994.
Björn Borg (born in 1956) won a total of 11 Grand Slams, of which he had won 8 by the end of 1979 (with 1981 his last full season, before an early retirement).


In 2010, Djokovic transformed from having a reputation for not lasting the distance after retiring during 4 Grand Slam matches, to become the fastest and fittest on the ATP (save perhaps for Nadal).
In another one of those strange connections, it was the Austrian fitness coach Gebhard Phil-Gritsch that transformed Djokovic in the tennis GOAT.

Phil-Gritsch had previously worked with none other than Thomas Muster, who in 1995 in his late twenties transformed into a beast on the court: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tenn ... 09033.html


Muster won the 1995 French Open and was called "The King of Clay", winning 40 consecutive matches on clay, and becoming ATP world no. 1 for 6 weeks in February – April 1996.
After Boris Becker lost to Muster in 5 sets in the final of the 1995 Monte Carlo Masters, Becker insinuated that Muster was using doping (he was fined for this). Becker was hardly the only one that found Muster’s amazing fitness suspicious…

Becker was Djokovic’s tennis trainer from 2013 to 2016: https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-featur ... accusation

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Personally I think that those female tennis players with big biceps and muscular back look even more suspicious than Nadal and Alcaraz. Arguably the most famous and muscular of these masculine female tennis stars is Serena Williams, arguably the greatest female tennis player of all time.
Also notice the increase in skull size (compare her change in physique to Barry Bonds who achieved his homeruns with the help of steroids).

After quitting steroids or human growth hormone use, somebody will lose muscle, and often gain fat…
Serena William has boasted about losing 9 kg of weight in 2024, now looking more normal than in the latter stages of her tennis career.

https://cholarships.blogs.rice.edu/2024 ... powerment/


The following video argues that top athletes have psychopathic characteristics.
https://youtu.be/o8KDV_5pV2I


I don’t understand why “amateurs” destroy their body with steroids, human growth hormone, EPO, or other performance enhancing drugs …
I thought that my contempt for the corrupt lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr couldn’t become any deeper.

The elderly Kennedy often brags about his physique, and even takes off his shirt for the camera.
In the following video, Bobby admits taking the steroid testosterone, which he bizarrely calls natural, while denying that he uses steroids, because he pays a doctor for “testosterone replacement therapy”.
Could this have caused his voice?!?
https://youtu.be/5e25fiWpt_s