Icarus - A Story About Doping

[TheX]

Just finished watching it. Wow! The lengths people, organizations, and COUNTRIES go to for results are crazy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/

 

[rxbandit]

One of the best documentaries I've seen, extremely gripping and crazy escalation of events

 

[TheX]

Some of my bicycle racing buddies turned me on to it. They have very STRONG feelings about the subject.

 

[pnuggett]

A story about "dirty urine". Might be interesting,

 

[bulletproof]

So damn dangerous......just to win a piece of metal. Terribly sad......

 

[TheX]

So damn dangerous......just to win a piece of metal. Terribly sad......

That is a lot of truth.

 

[Frankg11]

Good Stuff, exposing doping.

So here is a question that is raised often among my friends.

If you are a professional athlete and doping is prohibited, and we know people cheat. Why not remove the doping rule and let everyone decide for themselves. Then report the win with the toxicology Screen?

If you get caught doping in amateur sports you are forbidden to participate in professional sports.

It's an interesting idea. If everyone is doping anyway and cheating tests, why not drop the rule, and let these guys go a far as they can and then die at 30?

 

[rcole_sooner]

Isn't doping, replacing oxygen deprived blood with oxygen rich blood that was stored for the purpose?

It is not using drugs ... I don't think.



...well...

Google says there is doping with drugs, and blood doping is storing red cell enriched blood and using it later during an event.

When they were talking about Lance cheating, they explained his doping as the blood type. I guess that is where I got doping = blood doping.

So ... carry on.

 

[Frankg11]

I classify doping as any PED's or technique to improve performance. Steroids, etc all fall under my general category of gaining a performance edge.

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

If everyone got trophies, I think it would alleviate the pressure to win at any cost.
Cake, too.

 

[artis_xe]

I haven't watched the documentary yet __ but already , I can imagine the similarities between doping in sports , and doping in schools

I've witnessed it first hand . my wife manages a large restaurant / bar / nightclub venue , and she has quite a few people on her staff that are still attending college classes . the huge thing on campus is Adderall . the ones that are doing it ( almost everyone it seems ) , are setting the curve far those who don't . between the drugs and the energy drinks __ so many people are trashing their insides for gains that may or may not count when they graduate . it all seems very twisted to me