I guess this post comes under the "Mike's Ranting Again" heading, although it's not a rant per se. I'm just a little frustrated with the sports world in general.
You couldn't omit the communicate approximately Vijay Singh and the infamous deer antler spray the day past. (If you did, you could get the fundamentals from this ESPN information submit.) The big news changed into that the Tour wasn't going to droop Vijay for using it in the end. The World Anti-Doping Agency (hereafter called WADA) despatched a message to the Tour which said, as ESPN pronounced it:
"We're speaking approximately a dedication that changed into made by scientists at WADA that relate to the intake thru deer-antler spray of a technically violative substance, IGF-1, but in looking at it, the scientists concluded it led to infinitesimal quantities honestly being taken into the recipient's body,'' Finchem stated. "Amounts that could not be distinguished even if you had an accurate test with the quantities that you would possibly take into your body from milk, et cetera.
"In a case in which, for whatever motive, you managed to soak up sufficient IGF 1 so that it did cause a effective analyzing ... It's not viable these days. Because a wonderful reading means which you're surpassing a sure stage. There hasn't been any level ever set.''
Finchem said that if a appropriate test comes alongside, gamers could be accountable if they had been deemed to have too much IGF-1 in their system, based totally on WADA tips.Not to put too fine a point on it, but -- and here's where my rant comes in -- we've got an "illegal" substance for which (1) no legal level has been set and (2) even if you had a level you could test for, there's no accurate test to determine whether your actual blood level surpasses it or not. Then, to make matters worse, WADA has decided that deer antler spray doesn't have enough IGF-1 to matter anyway.
And here's the really funny part... did you notice that part about "...Amounts that couldn't be distinguished even if you had an accurate test with the amounts that you might take into your body from milk..."? That's right, people -- IGF-1 is in common dairy milk. That's why the WADA statement made the apparently contradictory remark that the insignificant amount of IGF-1 in deer antler spray could still cause an illegal level to show up in testing.
Should this kind of test ever emerge as correct enough to trouble with, this is.
Riddle me this, Batman: How can you justify punishing athletes in any sport for using IGF-1? Is WADA going to declare milk an illegal substance too?
Look, I do not have a trouble with drug checking out... However it is beginning to look as though drug checking out is the newest form of witch hunting!
Doug Barron's name popped up during yesterday's debates, and it should have. Barron, you may remember, was suspended for taking testosterone because it was medically determined that his was too low. I don't question Barron taking doctor-recommended treatment at all. However, I question the right of WADA (or any other testing body) to determine any level for testosterone and honestly expect me to believe that they know what is normal for every man on the planet. That is PURE IDIOCY!
Human our bodies don't come off an assembly line, each synthetic to exactly the equal specs. To think any regulatory business enterprise can decide such specifications is the peak of arrogance.
I realize this is a slippery slope. Doping is a real problem in sports. But suppose my body naturally makes more of, say, testosterone than most other athletes. The current approach to drug testing will penalize me for simply being me. If I enter the sport with naturally high levels, it will be assumed that I'm doping. This is a problem that the drug testing bodies have no adequate answer for as yet.
Cleaning up the blood doping problem in sports activities isn't always nearly as neat because the the predominant sports groups would love us to believe... And golf's ruling our bodies are approximately to discover simply how hard it's far. These two cases -- the terrible handling of Barron's case and what many will see as preferential treatment for Vijay concerning the deer antler spray -- should very well open Pandora's box. You higher get prepared.
And you could start by using having a pleasing bloodless glass of milk. You're going to want your strength. Before they outlaw it, this is.
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