Quote from: af_newbie on January 24, 2021, 04:29:38 PM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on January 24, 2021, 07:15:01 AM

Quote from: af_newbie on January 23, 2021, 02:31:53 PM

Quote from: Pizzalover420 on January 22, 2021, 10:18:21 PM

Won`t our Olympics be kind of fucked up with a bunch of men who think they are women in the women category.

Do you think real women will actually ever win anything now?

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Humans should be allowed to use whatever chemicals or naturally occurring substances they want to improve their performance.

Without any 'drug rules', people can just get to the business of competing, not cheating, and beating the drug tests.

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The Olympics is supposed to be a competition among amateur athletes. Performance-enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics because the winner of Olympic metals is supposed to be the best athletes, not who can find/take the best performance-enhancing drugs.

It is already about who can take the best drugs and not get caught. Are you naive?

The ones who are 'clean' were smart enough to hire professionals to manage their hormone levels and in some cases take other drugs to pass the 'drug tests'. Every athlete out there has experimented with steroids when recovering from injury, or to speed up recovery from overtraining.

I say make no drug limitations and make things more interesting. Let's see who can break the 9-sec barrier in a 100m dash.

Athletes are endangering their lives by subjecting their bodies to decades of physical assault. It is not healthy even if you don't take performance-enhancing drugs.

What is next, are you going to limit how much they can train? How much they can spend on the support team?

Olympics stopped being an amateurs' competition a long time ago. Be real. People should stop pretending.

Athletes are already limited as to how much they can train by virtue of how the human body works. If they exceed these limits, they will face injuries and will end up hurting their performance.

I have to disagree with you that using performance-enhancing drugs is necessary and that not using them is dangerous. Damage from using performance-enhancing drugs is permanent, while damage from training-related injuries is generally temporary, and Olympic-level athletes have trainers who help them avoid these types of injuries.

According to the World Olympics Association, one of the core values is Excellence, which is "...about giving one's best ...[and]... trying your hardest to win...". Using performance-enhancing drugs is not compatible with this principle.

All other major sports leagues also ban performance-enhancing drugs.