Sports and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Doping)

[Mugundan]

Bajrang Punia suspended for four years.
He was foolish to refuse and more foolish to admit it in his public statements. He was expecting NADA DCOs to carry a letter of explanation from NADA regarding his complaints!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spo ... 714404.cms

[prasen9]

I don't condone doping. This post is a thought exercise.

I wonder why athletes cannot do the following. Test a whole bunch of medicines/food in your area and find which ones have the banned chemicals you want to dope with. Then, you eat that regularly and blame the food provider/medicine and can provide quick proof that you got tainted by a source you did not know.

We should call this the Sinner-Siwatek formula for doping and it has been quite successful in being a doping method that hardly gets you sanctioned. Where is the drawback? Is it quite costly to do such tests?

[Mugundan]

Close race between India and Kenya developing on the doping front!
https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/athle ... d-of-2024/

[Mugundan]

Athlete suspended for four years, but competes again within no time.
Sachin Poswal, a Delhi athlete, was suspended on Dec 27 but managed a new ID and competed again on Dec 29. He seemed to have done it a second time. Earlier too he had done such a trick, but this one was too swift and AFI was apparently caught napping even as it keeps talking about tackling the doping menace.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sport ... try-cship/