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steriods!! 7-Jun-2004 At 8:16:33 PM Damietta

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I laboured the argument of having a better defined, more descriptive grading system in another thread and most people shouted it down because they don't want too many regulations and rules in climbing. Everyone seems to crap on about how they love climbing for the freedom, and isolation from the 'rules of the game' that come with organized competitive sport.

Therefore, if people want to take drugs to help their climbing, and endure the serious side effects on their body (ie Florence Griffth Joyner olympic sprinter dead in her 30's), good for them, and leave the dope testing for the olympics. I personally don't care if someone wants to take it that seriously that they're on the juice.

Ron Clarke (past Australian running great) argues that all steroids and performance enhancing drugs like EPO (EPO acts as a signal for the bone marrow to increase the rate at which red blood cells are made and released into the circulation - leading to an increased oxygen supply to the tissues throughout the body) should be legal in the Olympics for endurance events because it is impossible to compete with athletes born and bred at altitude (ie Kenya with average altitude of 2000m, and warm climate).

In climbing, I mount the parallel argument, how to you compete with the French given their abundant limestone cliffs and their abandonment of ethics and good style.