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What could be the advantage of doping in curling?
Endurance and power in curling are important during the sweeping action, and I can guarantee that after a match the players are tired (especially the two players who sweep more).
Here some evidence ...
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After the revocation of an Olympic medal, do those who took lower places get upgraded?
Per this BBC article, the athletes will receive medals that were stripped from the banned competitors:
Britain's 4x400m relay squad from the 2008 Beijing Games got their
podium moment in front of ...
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Why no uniform testing for doping at major sporting events?
The answer is simple, although you won't hear it in the media: it's financial.
Imagine a league like the MLB suddenly decides to test every one of its players on a given day. Immediately they end up ...
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Is there any list of doping that could be found in daily food?
Absolutely.
I boxed in the late 90s while in college. My dining hall was not feeding me enough so I was heavily smuggling food out for late night snacks. I found out that the easiest food to ...
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Diabetes and strongman athletes
I think it's best to start by explaining, for any users who may not know, what diabetes is and what insulin does.
Insulin is a hormone, produced in the pancreas, that allows the body to regulate its ...
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Why no uniform testing for doping at major sporting events?
It is not enough to test on the day of the competition, even if a 100% foolproof test for all illegal substances were possible.
A doping athlete can use a drug during the training period leading up ...
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Why no uniform testing for doping at major sporting events?
There are two good answers here that raise good points:
There is no uniformity across sports because the incentives are different in different sports. Canadian Coder's answer about MLB is a good ...
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What's the UFC rules regarding steroid usage?
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) administers the UFC's drug testing policy. They have a website at ufc.usada.org, and on this website you can read the 21-page policy (pdf), which took effect on ...
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Which Powerlifting federations and hence competitions comply with WADA's anti-doping policies?
The wordrecord news meantions that IPF to be the only Powerlifting federation that complies with WADA's anti-doping policies:
"When a National Federation has received an Adverse Analytical Finding ...
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How do competitive runners with asthma handle Doping tests?
There is the national level and the international level. IAAF has forms by which athletes can send exemption forms.
IAAF
IAAF Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) Application Form here
Cardiovascular ...
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What could be the advantage of doping in curling?
The curling case is very puzzling, as the drug in question is meldonium, which basically allows slightly greater endurance by opening up blood flow and regulating energy in the cells. Even curlers are ...
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Why are beta blockers a banned substance?
Beta blockers reduce sympathetic effects, which can have an impact on competitive sports that are reliant on stability of extremeties (by reducing the symptoms of anxiety, such as tremors).
Beta ...
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Steroid for IBD banned by WADA?
It is on the WADA prohibited list as being prohibited "in competition", that doesn't mean you couldn't get a Theraputic Use Exemption (TUE) for it. TUE's for corticosteriods used to treat ...
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Steroid for IBD banned by WADA?
Talk to your governing body, not the Internet. They will be able to give you accurate advice as to exactly what is and isn't a prohibited substance and the possibility of you obtaining a therapeutic ...
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Is statement "PEDs compensate the genetic disadvantages" valid?
From a basic perspective of function, the majority of (if not all) performance-enhancing drugs do not target innate deficiencies that are due to genetics, they merely affect some bodily system in a ...
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Why may Russians compete in world championships?
As with the athletes at the focus of this earlier question on Sports Stack Exchange,
the national association is banned from involvement. This means no organisational presence, no Russian flag, no ...
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Is there any list of doping that could be found in daily food?
According to the article "Non-Intentional Doping in Sports" (by Mauricio Yonamine, Paula Rodrigues Garcia, Regina Lúcia Moreau) which refers to several real cases of positive doping tests and several ...
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Why meldonium "almost" only in East Europe?
As Martin indicated in comments:
Approval status
Meldonium, which is not approved by the FDA in the United States, is registered and prescribed in Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, ...
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