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- From: chris@carnival.lbl.gov (Chris Moll)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.racing
- Subject: Re: Cyling and Doping
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:39:47 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California
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- Paul Sery writes:
- >I drink quadruple espressos before tt's to enhance my performance.
-
- I'm not too happy with this. I don't care for the effects of caffeine
- and I don't want to be obliged to take it if I want a level playing
- field. I won't label you a drug abuser, but I don't care to compete with
- you on that basis.
-
- >I assume that since I drink lots of coffee everyday and am fairly heavy I'm
- >okay but I really don't know. So if my body assimilates it and I pass the
- >test than I am not cheating. However, if I am the one-in-a-hundred that gets
- >busted then I am considered to be a drug abuser. It's that arbitrariness
- >that makes it unfair.
-
- There's a big difference between a cup of coffee the morning of a race and
- half a bottle of NoDoz. The only way to distinguish between the two is
- to establish an arbitrary threshold. If you're concerned that you might be
- approaching anywhere near the limit don't drink so much coffee.
-
- >If she [Janelle Parks] had just drunk coffee would you feel differently?
-
- No. I don't care where the caffeine comes from. Whether the source is
- legal/socially accepted is totally irrelavent to me.
-
- Plus it would be a hell of a lot of coffee.
-
- --
- Chris Moll (510)486-7891
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