Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

As doping revelations continue to come out in sports like cycling, baseball, and now golf, track has had a relatively dope-free summer so far. Albiet, the World Championships is still a month away but so far there haven't been any major players in the sport of track caught and just as important there haven't been any rumors or allegations (which always seem to have at least a hint of truth
 
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Which sport is the dirtiest?

Does laser eye surgery count?

I'd say football/baseball, if we include things like painkillers, amphetamines, etc. Even at the high school level painkillers tend to be abused by some athletes to get by, in football at least.

bodybuilding anyone?

mortac8 - 27 July 2007 09:54 AM

bodybuilding anyone?

Is that a sport?

On a related note, I just added weightlifting to the options.

mike - 27 July 2007 10:34 AM

mortac8 - 27 July 2007 09:54 AM

bodybuilding anyone?

Is that a sport?

On a related note, I just added weightlifting to the options.

How about cheerleading?  I know a lot of cheerleaders that are dirrrrrty.

Dirtiest? Mudwrestling or Cheerleading

i was gunna vote for long jump, cuz we do jump into dirt…

id say powerlifting or ol guys
man all the guys i work out with back home just get juiced for 3 years, take a year off of it and compete at world level

Yeah i know OL's that do that as well…the weightlifters def are the dirtiest…who can clean and jerk 3 times their body weight clean !

weightlifters probably are the dirtiest BUT

the most scandal:  probably cycling or track idk….

i talked to some of the ol guys i work out with

the guy said that most countries that are poorer have optional (OPTIONAL) drug tests there its a fuckin joke

cycling is evil…painkillers, hormones, stimulants, blood boosters…what doesn't an elite cyclist take?

Cycling seems to be one of the sports that has the most pervasive doping problem from top to bottom. It also seems to have the most openly acknowledged team sponsored doping protocols.

I think in track that the large majority of competitors at the elite level are clean. This isn't necessarily the case with the finalists / medalists but I think it could be said for the overall field at the elite level.

i think that while lifting is really dirty no sport has widespread cheating like you find in cycling, from top to bottom you find that it comes close to a majority of the cyclists are doing some form of doping.  many attribute this to the modern day courses being impossible to complete without "help" but i think its almost impossible to say that cycling isnt the dirtiest sport in terms of people cheating and getting caught regularly

Is that any different than saying its impossible to compete in track with being dirty? You may not medal if you run a 9.8x time, but you are supposed to be able to compete clean? That would have been a WR not long ago and now it won't get you a medal, but sure, you can compete LIFETIME clean.

Cycling as a sport actually has some testing protocols, which is why you probably find people. The NFL does in-house testing, as does baseball, basketball, etc. If you think they are going to let the star qb/rb test positive for painkillers or some crap like that you're crazy. If you catch a couple, you can make it look like you are actually trying to clean up the sport.

Cycling is very dirty because the athletes can reap huge benefits from a very wide range of drugs. Speed-power athletes can benefit from drugs like EPO and insulin but I think it's less than what cyclists benefit from testosterone and other anabolic agents.