I ran across a thread on a cycling site that I frequent. It was a thread about how widespread drug doping is in amateur cycling. It linked to some bodybuilding websites. What did I see in those forums? Cyclists and other so called “athletes” openly talking about how to take performance enhancing drugs and not get caught.
I won’t link to the sites due to board policy, but here is a sample of the thread topics I saw on the first page of one of the sites:
Estrogen blockers ONLY- for increased testosterone!
Test and steroids for endurance athletes
EPO and the Net
Benefits from E
Amphetmine…
Hgb Meters on Ebay
Ephedrine and Testing
GH or E causing calf cramps?
Amino acid bound Iron…WAY best for EPO users
blue top gh from china
Test - who’s gonna hold my hand?
There were tens of thousands of threads on this doping site.
I did not expect to see something so blatantly unethical on such a massive scale. Especially considering that the site appears to cater to mainly amateur “athletes”. What the hell is the point of sport if everyone is taking drugs? Why do these sites even exist? What the hell is the point of fair play and sportsmanship?
I’m wondering if that entire website is just a phony. Maybe it has phony testimonials, fictitious articles, etc. Basically I feel the person(s) running that website are just trying to get people to buy the stuff they are shilling.
(No, I did not even look for that website but I’m guessing it is not an official website for anything).
Performance-enhancing drugs are more ubiquitous than you think. A good friend of mine once told me a story of how he very nearly became a college football player (I won’t say where) only to realize it would be more or less expected of him, in a very wink-wink nudge-nudge sort of way. He didn’t go through with it.
Oh, it is very real. You would have to be crazy to create a whole forum with around 100,000 threads with all of them having content that makes sense and on how to dope and not get caught. And that is just one of the sites I looked at. Here is a sample from one of the threads:
Now imagine a whole forum like that. I wonder if the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) knows about these sites. I should report it.
What do you make of the wacky Lemond stuff today? What the Hell?
Of course, you can find 500 of ANYONE on the web-- there’s a lot of people on st0rmfr0nt, for example, but not all white people are like that.
I was like, WTF? The cycling world is getting weirder and weirder. Hollywood cannot write a script like this. Someone should really make a movie about the current round of doping in cycling.
It was out of no where. Lemond being sexually assaulted as a child had nothing to do with Landis doping in the Tour de France. I’m not sure if what Lemond said was true or not, considering how credible everyone else is in the cycling world. :dubious:
I wonder what kind of bomb Eddy Merckx is going to bring to the table.
By the way, take a look of the Floyd Landis pictures on www.velonews.com. Doesn’t he look like a devil?
Frankly, you simply haven’t been paying attention. It’s been plain as day to the most casual observer that high level cycling has been riddled with performance enhancing drugs and other dodgy techniques (eg blood doping) for a long time. And when I say 'riddled" I mean universal. It is at least as bad there as it is in weight lifting and sprinting, if not worse.
I had the same reaction a couple of days ago when I stumbled across a site selling research papers, term papers, and even these (!) Such services have existed for ages – they advertised in my college newspapers. They were depicted in the movie Animal House (made in 1978, but depicting situations from almost two decades earlier), and I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s still going on, and now using the Internet to push itself. But the blatancy is what gets me. They make a big deal about how the papers you can buy from their site won’t be picked out by the available anti-plagiarizing software some professors are apparently using to combat this.
