"Nor is the testing itself as stringent as Olympic testers would have the public believer. The IOC tolerates startlingly high levels of testosterone in both male and female athletes. Olympic testing guidelines established 15 years ago by the late German biochemist Manfred Donike, who was the head of the IOC's doping subcommittee from 1980 until his death in 1995, measure an athlete's testosterone/epitestosterone (t/e) ratio of 1.3 to 1 or lower. A small fraction of men, far fewer than 10 in 1,000 have a t/e ratio of more that 5 to 1. To cover these people and to avoid lawsuits. Donlike pegged the maximum acceptable ratio in Olympic athletes at 6 to 1. Thus, a male athlete with a natural t/e ratio of 1 to 1 can artificially increase his ratio to 6 to 1 and still have legal reading. A man with a natural 1-to-1 ratio could take 200 milligrams of testosterone three times a week and remain below 6 to 1. Sports scientists say that a run-of-the-mill male athlete with a 1-to-1 t/e ratio who raised his ratio to 6 to 1 by injecting testosterone, in conjunction with hGH could improve his athlete performance by as much as 10% to 20%. That's a huge advantage in, say a 100-meter sprint in which a few hundredths of a second can separate first place from fourth, or in a throwing event, in which six feet can separate a gold medalist from an also-ran.
Donike also established 6 to 1 as the legal ratio for women, even though it is almost unheard of for a women to have a ratio greater than 2.5 to 1."
I've also been saying for the longest time that steroids are still the drug of choice for strength and endurance athletes. The above excerpt proves my point. An endurance athlete could boost his t/e level above his normal ratio but below the IOC standard and dramatically improve recovery time through improved protein synthesis.
Alan
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Gerald Woodward wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Thanks for the info. I would not think that that high a percentage of
> athletes would say yes, knowing that they would die in five years, just to
> win an Olympic gold medal...
Well...this doesn't necessarily mean the study took place or that it was
scientific if it did and it seems to me that I have heard various versions of
this since well prior to 1995.
"A Scenario, from a 1995 poll of 198 sprinters, swimmers, powerlifters and other
assorted athletes, most of them U.S. Olympians of aspiring Olympians:
You Are offered a banned performance-enhancing substance, with two guarantees:
1) You will not be caught. 2) You will win. Would you take the substance?
One hundred and ninety-five athletes said yes; three said no.
Scenario II: You are offered a banned performance-enhancing substance that comes
with two guarantees: 1) You will not be caught. 2) You will win every
competition you enter for the next five years, and then you will die from the
side effects of the substance. Would you take it?
More than half the athletes said yes."
http://www.horizon-hs.net/~pe/gary%20paulson/wt%20lifting%20II/overtheedge.html
Gerald Woodward wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Thanks for the info. I would not think that that high a percentage of
> athletes would say yes, knowing that they would die in five years, just to
> win an Olympic gold medal! I would love to have one, but not at that cost!
> I enjoy life for the most part and have a lot of things that I still want to
> accomplish. The gold medal is not that important to me that I give up my
> life in five years, and I hate to lose even if I'm playing tiddlywinks!!!
>
> Gerald
-- Regards,
Martin
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