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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The only solution is a mandatory test for all medal winners.
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This will never work. As I said, even meth is not considered as a doping - test every american athlete and he will be "clean". Even after a pot.
All these guys (Americans, Russian Chinese etc) use various dopings. Show my a US athlete who doesn't. The problem (a Russian problem) is that our pharma is way behind the American one. Also some really good drugs are considered as a doping only because they were made in Russia. Interesting, ah? The doping is something that gives you some extra force (e.g. steroids), but you pay back by
your own health.
Meldonium does not work like that. It does not make you faster, stronger etc. It's an anti-ischemic drug. If you have some problem with heart or brain oxygen delivery, it will help you. If you have no problem with that - it won't do anything for you. It's just like glasses. If an athlete have a myopia, can he use glasses, or it will be considered as cheating? The same rule works for Meldonium.
The only problem is that Meldonium is Russian (Soviet) drug, so it's forbidden, but Methamphetamine is absolutely fine, because it's made in America!
P.S. I have a pack of Meldonium in my cupboard, so what?