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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Cyling [sic] and Doping
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.071550.27901@netcom.com>
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- References: <lj4fpoINN1na@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <+yfrc5g@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Dec22.160230.18662@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:15:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.160230.18662@cbnews.cb.att.com> ampe@cbnews.cb.att.com (john.e.ampe) writes:
-
- >Well, Paul, if that happens, then caffeine will certainly be banned
- >outright, since it is a dangerous, performance-enhancing drug. Is that
- >really what you want?
-
- OK, let's see some evidence that caffeine is a performance-enhancing drug.
- This entire line is simple BS since most of the laboratory monitored effects
- are performance destroying (increased heart rate, enhanced dehydration,
- irregular nerve firings etc.) Coffee's (caffeine's) effects are virtually all
- social.
-
- The only excuse for banning high levels of caffeine is because people who
- _think_ that they get performance enhancements may use very high levels and
- such is known to cause strokes and heart failure. Or that the caffeine
- effectly masks other real performance enhancing drugs.
- >
- >Sorry, Paul, you're all caught up in your own logic. If it's "so
- >mild," then why do you take it at all? You admit yourself that you
- >take it for its performance enhancing effect. Therefore it is not
- >mild. Janelle was also clearly taking it with performance enhancement
- >in mind. Anyone who uses a banned drug with this intent deserves to
- >be caught and punished. By the way, this has nothing to do with
- >morality. It has to do with using drugs that have known harmful
- >effects.
-
- If you are terrified of racing against mad caffeine addicts I would
- suggest you not race at all.
-
- OK, you don't like coffee. But don't give us all of this false justification
- of the evils of the "drug". Maybe you ought to have rules that limit the
- amount of time you could train each week. AFter all, those who can train
- longer hours obviously have an unfair advantage on you.
-
-