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psst: wanna buy some steroids? 30-Nov-2005 At 10:04:35 PM raff32

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Yeah things sure are getting blurry these days. I think that if it was merely the fact that something provides an edge to be banned then they would ban creatine and many other things, however it obviously is seen as a way to protect athletes from harm as well which is fair enough.

You only need to look at the recent debate surrounding caffeine use to see how deeply people feel about the issue. I unfortunately got started on performance enhancers amidst the culture of an all out war between the school I trained at and another school in the same style, so the only thing that was really important was winning and inflicting as much damage to ones opponent as possible, I actually thought it was pretty cool at the time, funny how youth and folly go so well together. And lets face it, whenever winning becomes the thing considered most important to an athlete and when that athlete beleives that the risk is worth it, then cheating will occur.

But with steroids I beleive that competitive sports play only a very small part in their use, nowadays you are probably just as likely to find a 45yo professional or a 17yo high school student using them, unfortunately the pressure to look good is almost if not as strong as the pressure to win at any cost, and once again as long as the risk is seen as negligible then people will use them.