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Types of estrogen therapy https://www.webmd.com/menopause/which-type-of-estrogen-hormone-therapy-is-right-for-you What the USADA has to say about clomiphene: https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/education/substance-profile-clomiphene/#:~:text=If%20the%20substance%20or%20method,for%20a%20specified%2...

A few more points need further elaboration on this thread: What if the athlete (male) has to use testosterone for infertility treatment: Though it is very rare that a doctor would advise testosterone for treatment of infertility, athletes have come up with this argument in India and abroad. The firs...

Can a safe limit be based on natural variations? When natural high levels of a substance is tolerated by the body but artificial ingestion causes problems, this approach does not work. Is there evidence that doping at levels that is within the natural variation is harmless? I doubt it is but if the...

Can a safe limit be based on natural variations? When natural high levels of a substance is tolerated by the body but artificial ingestion causes problems, this approach does not work. Is there evidence that doping at levels that is within the natural variation is harmless? I doubt it is but if the...

Rachna, hammer thrower, tests positive for three steroids in AIU test. This was done before the Asian Games. She got selected for the Asian Games on the strength of her 65.03m performance in the Inter-State meet. She finished ninth in Hangzhou with 58-plus. That she was tested so close to the games ...

https://m.timesofindia.com/sports/more- ... 298506.cms
Now, in para athletics. A gold winner in Para Asiad has tested positive.

^^Mugu, I was referring to India in my post. My position on doping is clear in this forum and I know I am alone in my thinking. Understood. My point was if in India (elsewhere also perhaps but I don't have proof), we say "oh doping is there all over the world" and try to condone it, that ...

^^Because there is no real desire to do so, Mugu. Perhaps the thinking is why should Indian athletic program be holier than thou and win morally while losing to cheats everywhere. This philosophy is there in India also (perhaps around the world). I have known and heard this argument for more than t...

Keep forgetting that athletes even the ones at the top of the mountain are looking for that edge. In Baseball, Barry Bonds who felt disgruntled at all the attention that a much inferior Mark Mcgwire and Sosa got during their homerun chase also resorted to the same approach and eventually disgraced ...

Good luck counting on testing to stopping the doping. Not going to win this race. Doping can never be eliminated. Everyone from top experts, anti-doping and the Olympic Movement to the bottom rung of fans and athletes are agreed on this. Newer and more complicated methods and substances are being b...

Half of all athletes dope. It is human nature. So, not surprised. In the U.S. they figure out how to find new things and apply for a TIE ... In India that figure should be around 80-85 percent at the elite and sub-elite level. However, most of those caught are from the younger lot, departmental or ...

Another piece, an excellent, well-researched one, is here. It goes deep into the root of the problem and comes to the conclusion money is the prime factor that drives the athletes towards dope (as most cases are in so many countries including in India where there is an incentive to fame, riches, job...

Kind of surprised that Kenya is so high up. I am assuming long distance runners? Considering their natural advantages, I am surprised to see them in the list . Initially, I was also very disappointed and surprised that the Kenyans were regularly making the doping list. And that, too, at the highest...

Incidentally, India has the second highest number of sanctioned athletes, ineligible at the moment in the world (as on 12 Nov) with 81, behind Russia's 94. Kenya is on 58. What else can Nada do apart from stepping up testing? This is a topic that often comes up on the social media. There are no clea...

Yes, it is a surprise to see Chopra in the short-list. After having said that, it won't be a surprise if he is chosen Athlete of the Year!