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steriods!! 8-Jun-2004 At 12:03:57 PM Goodvibes

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Yes after winning a bouldering comp in Europe a few years ago Sharma was later disqualified for having marijuana in his system. Not because it is a performance enhancing drug but because it is a drug that is illegal in most/all of the participating countries so it too is banned. I used to frequently and still do occaisionally smoke dope before climbing and for me any way there is no way it helps my performance.

I'm sure there were plenty of climbers who have experimented with performance enhancing drugs, I'm pretty sure that years ago Alex Huber caused a stir when he admitted to using some. There are always people who are desperate to get to the top, some unfortunately desperate enough to risk serious health concerns in to get there.

I think it would piss me off a little, not alot but a little to find out that such and such, one of the worlds best climbers was using steroids when they put up all their hardest climbs but really it is more likely to piss off their peers who are themselves pushing the limit of difficulty and trying to scrape a living from what is at present not the most lurcative of activities. Myself on the other hand will just continue to struggle up routes that were hardly cutting edge when they were put up 20 or 30 years ago.