Reading between the lines it sounds like suicide?
it appears that way
She had been a great athleteā¦her positive test cast a shadow on all she had done before. i am saddened by her sad lossā¦
a great athlete tarnished by stupidity. she could have been ranked as one of the best if sheād stayed off the EPO
sad story, a great athlete, an error of judgement and by the sounds of it never got over the shame of cheating.
Very very sadā¦ sometimes we really can want something too much.
I sat round a table yesterday me and three guys who openly use steroids.
One once in a blue moon the other two are hardcore weightlifters and nearly double my body weight ā¦ ā can you get me some EPO?ā I saidā¦
Yeah sure came the replyā¦
Apparently itās quite expensive, but has to be cheaper than all the carbon, pt, coaches trainers, bikes etc etc etc and devices we all have that dont really do anything.
For the record ā¦ I never replied to the yeah sureā¦ cheating cheating at any level.
just go on some of the bodybuilding forums - itās quite amazing how some openly talk about the drugs theyāre taking, a number of which are not even being tested for yet, and some are big pharma drugs that have been dropped from clinical trials as they have too many side effects, yet available on the black market. these idiots will take anything if it can give them an edge.
I wonder how theyāre getting these? Did the pharma companies make loads for testing, have them left kicking around and now theyāre being stolen and moved into the black market, or is there some kind of black market labs that are making these? Madness either way.
black market labs
Itās like BALCO, very clever people making drugs that arenāt tested for as the authorities donāt know they exist.
Youād be right about one of themā¦ nice kidā¦ but if he could gain aload of free muscle but with a 30% chance of serious side effects her still take itā¦
All his mates are doing gearā¦ which is sad but true.
The other is very very intelligent, his iq for someone in my job is off the charts, heās wasted in a prison, but heās 21 stone and handy in a tear up so weāre glad heās staying for the min.
Despite being well read, and surprisingly knowledgable about most sports including tri, he was genuinely surprised that my peers would frown on drug use.
Iām sure stenard and poet and the other in shape 30-40 year olds would be delighted if I sauntered past them at the end of a race after openly admitting using pedsā¦!
He seemed to think that would be great ā¦ I could pass on my knowledge and peds to them and we could all go fasterā¦ defiantly a cultural issue.
I was into Bodybuilding many years ago (90ās) and itās incredibly open to drug use. At pretty much any gym, you just had to ask who to speak to and theyād get anything you wanted. One gym I went to was a unit on a trading estate and a guy used to pull up outside and hold, what could only be described as, a āsteroid car boot saleā
I never took anything, but did seriously consider it at one time when you get frustrated that youāre working as hard as everyone else but making so much less progress. I knew plenty that did including police officers.
Are steroids themselves illegal then, or does that depend on the type? I have zero knowledge on this type of stuff!
I believe they were class 1 drugs at the time so illegal, that may have changed since.
Theyāre Class C, so itās legal to bring personal use from a country where you can buy them. Any distribution is illegal, as is bringing them in for someone else etc.
Remember listening to a podcast with Dave Crossland whoās quite open about the steroid use and his input was itās not so much you canāt take the steroids safely but the drugs you should take alongside to prevent side effects such as higher cholesterol. However, the supplemental drugs arnt cheap so people just skip them and then steroids get a reputation for being unsafe.
Personally I donāt like the body builder look at all and donāt see the appeal unless youāre really insecure in and want to look massive because you feel you have to be intimidating to other people for your own satisfaction. Conversely, if itās about performance then you havnāt really achieved it if you needed artificial enhancement to get there anymore than if I needed EPO to achieve a Running performance that I couldnāt get without. The difficulty becomes where do you draw the line on whats acceptable. Nutrition, caffeine etc are all performance enhancers and enablers but I guess itās easy to see why someone might think āitās just another supplement. I donāt know any technical definition by which something is either legal or an illegal PED
Itās not illegal to take steroids they are covered by the medicines act not the misuse of drug act 1971.
It is illegal to sell or give them away ā¦ they are basically treated like a class c drugā¦ ish
Only ever met one fella in prison for selling themā¦ he had a transit van full and was skinny AF
Regular gym goers do it to get results easier, itās not considered an extreme thing to do.
They are in the misuse of drugs act - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1300/article/2/made
as Class C, but still legal to use.