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No agenda. Just aggressive common sense. The amount of supplements, vitamins and hormones athletes take is so staggering it has literally transformed track & field from a noble activity into a delicate chemistry experiment: who can get the most from their muscles at the right time. To presume that there is anyone operating at the world class level who does not partake in vigorous pre-loading is naive.
And they're always one step ahead of the anti-doping agencies. For every substance that is banned, they simply knock a molecule or two off, or add another, come up with a designer drug that is just as effective and not nearly as detectable. Supplement loading is a carefully guarded secret among the upper echelons of track athletes. They all have their regimens, and they all refuse to talk about them.
But the winner of the race should be the fastest guy, period. Not the fastest guy who's hormone levels are below the legal limit. If I have an agenda, it's to see human excellence. I wanna see them go for broke. These doping allegations and tip-toeing around by Olympic agencies really put a dampener on such a pure discipline.
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