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Re: Great Britain's Mediocrity
« Reply #15 on Sept 5, 2009, 8:53am »

pharmacological technology

I think it is called nutrition over here finarphin

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Re: Great Britain's Mediocrity
« Reply #16 on Sept 18, 2009, 5:11am »

Sept 5, 2009, 8:53am, longthrow wrote:

pharmacological technology

I think it is called nutrition over here finarphin

You don't like that term? Well, I made it up, so you wouldn't have seen it anywhere else. Maybe that's why you're uncomfortable with it.

Nutrition is a nice neutral little term; it looks harmless. There's nothing wrong with athletes making sure they are healthy by eating right. Certainly they would want to avoid outright malnutrition, or scurvy, or anything like that.

But I don't think that's what they are really doing nowadays, and how far back all this goes is anybody's guess. What they probably are doing is using every kind of physiological/hormonal/supplemental whatever you want to call it trick in the pharmacological technological book in order to give themselves an advantage: a winning advantage. Sometimes we like to sit back and innocently ponder to ourselves that nothing out of the ordinary is happening because there is no expose of it. But what can anyone do? These championships, and especially the Olympics, are more and more tied-in with Big Money interests, especially television, and everyone wants new records, so what can the governing bodies do?

It wouldn't do to disqualify half the national team of this or that country -- as might have happened in, say, 1984, had the Russians shown up for that. They were wary of UCLA's new mass spectrometer and couldn't take the risk.

Let's face it, nowadays it's a Steroid Circus -- where "Steroid" in this context should cover any kind of artificial supplementation. If you want to include blood-doping, hormone treatments, EPO, and everything else under the term nutrition, then nutrition becomes a figure of speech: a euphemism.

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Re: Great Britain's Mediocrity
« Reply #17 on Sept 18, 2009, 8:02am »

pharmacological technology

You don't like that term? Well, I made it up, so you wouldn't have seen it anywhere else. Maybe that's why you're uncomfortable with it.

I am not uncomfortable at all with your new term finarphin I think it is an accurate analogy, I was just having a dig at those who cheat but salve their conscience with the term "Good Nutrition" it is quite big over here

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