Sonnen tests positive for PEDs.

Agree.

 

Has he claimed he wasn't on the juice at the time of this picture?

 

PED's are the worst thing about sports and there should never be a laissez faire attitude toward them. Users should be punished harshly. Catching users should be a priority.

 

Who takes roids when they are 16?

 

Guys like Lesnar.

 

When he was born the nurse had to remove the needle full of roids.

 

Anyone know what the latest on Carwin is?

btw, Sonnen's silence speaks volumes

 

no athletes in your high school took roids?

 

From here: http://www.endo-society.org/media/SWC_presentations/upload/Rogol-Anabolic_Steroids.pdf
No idea when this presentation was made or where the stats come from, but I'd assume they weren't made up.


In 1993 one in 45 high school students used
anabolic steroids
By 1999 one in 27 high school students used
anabolic steroids
Today one in 16 high school students admit
using anabolic steroids

 

Yeah, his loss is to Sonnen which is kind of the point of my post.

But you make a good point. If Marquardt just learned how to juice without getting caught, then he really doesn't deserve anything.

 

Bunch of kids do as a matter of fact. When I was in my High School's Basketball team, I saw all kinds of roids in the locker room. Only 3 guys in the team were on roids.

 

A lof of the PED athletes use have side effects and can be addictive, that´s why you need a prescription for them in regular life. EPO for example is used for rebuilding red blood cells with cancer patients. There is no medical reason for healthy people to use EPO.

How is the legalization supposed to work in real life? How do you differentiate between a pro athlete and a wannabe? Do athletes get a special passport?

Do you really want to legalize dangerous medication for children. Parents that decide for their 12 year old daughter that she should use prescription drugs to make it to the top in figure skating or gymnastics at age 14-15.

Parts of the pharma industry would focus on producing drugs for pro athletes instead of sick people. Even now they don´t have a real interest to cure a disease like AIDS, but rather control it.

There goes so much more into the decision to legalize PEDs than just the risk/reward equation for adult athletes. And the example of pro wrestling shows how bad it really gets in an uncontrolled environment, when the behaviour is encouraged and tolerated by the boss.

 

He's been huge his whole life dude, it's not like at age 16 he suddenly turned into a giant.

 

If they're using them illegally now, wouldn't it be safer if legal and regulated?

 

No. Just because some idiots drive through the inner city at 100 mph or others use heroin, it´s still not safer to allow it for everybody. Where do you get the financial resoucres for a controlled programme? Who pays for all the drugs? Read up on the GDR sports programme. That was a controlled environment. They systematically doped children, and the results later in life are devastating, if you are that lucky. In one case a young athlete ended up on the bottom of a swimming pool and only 20 years later his parents learned he died of liver intoxication not heart failure.