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- From: sery@crunch.unm.edu (sery)
- Subject: Re: Cyling and Doping
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:51:23 GMT
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- Bruce Hildenbrand writes:
- >>Sery writes:
- >>Obviously she was taking it to enhance her performance. However, it wasn't a
- >>case of abuse since two Uptimes and two coffees is NOT very much caffeine
- >>and it is not a banned substance in any case.
- >
- >Using caffeine at such a level that it shows up in the boby's blood system
- >in abnormally high amounts(as determined by the UCI) is indeed illegal,
- >so, in that light she was taking a banned substance. This is indeed
- >susbstance abuse.
-
- What are two Uptimes worth in terms of cup of coffees? Two, four, six?
- Twelve cups is supposed to be roughly the limit. So she wasn't even close
- by any standard and yet she was "caught". Abnormal is a word which doesn't
- mean anything in this context! For Janelle it was abnormal to drink the
- equivalent of 8 cups. I say either ban it or don't. It's unfair otherwise.
-
- >The fact that the caffeine apparently stayed in her body longer than other
- >people does not, in my eyes, make the situation unfair. If Ms. Parks is
- >going to use a susbstance that is considered illegal in abnormally high
- >quantities in the blood to enhance her performance, then SHE should do
- >her homework and figure out what are the doses she can take and still
- ^^^^^^^^
- >remain below the legal limit. Plain and simple.
-
- So you're saying as long as you're smart enough not to get caught its okay?
-
- >>I drink quadruple espressos before tt's to enhance my performance. 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.
- >
- >This is not arbitrary at all. The rules state the acceptable levels.
- >If you can't play by the rules, don`t play.
-
- Acceptable, abnormal???? They are words when used in the context of rules
- make automatically arbitrary.
-
- >>If she had just drunk coffee would you feel differently? The implication that
- >>I read into what you wrote is that you would.
- >I would not feel any differently no matter how the caffeine was injested,
- >then again I loathe coffee.
-
- Them's fight'n words in these parts;-)
-
- >ps - I love all these people taking caffeine before TT's. The major
- >physiological benefit of caffeine is to help the body speed up it's
- >fatty acid metabolism mechanism, something which is only of benefit after
- >1-2 hours of racing. This would hardly seem appropriate for a
- >55 minute or so effort. Any anectdotal responses on how much faster
- >caffeine makes you go in events >1 hour can be sent to /dev/null.
-
- I agree! It's so mild that I don't worry about the morality. So why is a
- rule necessary then!?
-
- Paul Sery
- Albuquerque, NM
-