[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]dt79 wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]dt79 wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]dt79 wrote:
This is not a question of what should be allowed and to what extent it should be allowed. This is about rules set by the organisation running the competition and the fact that competitors choose to take part in such competitions under the assumption that these rules will be enforced.
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The reasons behind the rules may be debatable, but whether one should follow them or not should not be.[/quote]
Except as per this quote:
You should feel ashamed for following the rules, because even though you’re following them, you’re breaking them in spirit.
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I’m not following your line of logic.
The rules state the competitor has to be free of synthetic testosterone. The method of testing varies.[/quote]
The rules for what? WADA testing(which is what most major competitions emulate) begins with a test:epitest ratio evaluation, which a TRT patient is probably passing easily, and even if they aren’t, someone who is truly ‘low T’(like, hypogonadism, sub 300 ng/dl) would probably not find a lot of difficulty getting a TUE from most organizations outside of the Olympics themselves which are extremely strict.[/quote]
Exogeneously administered testosterone is a substance on the WADA ban list.
It is also a banned substance in tested meets. Therefore a competitor breaks the rules if he competes in such a meet on TRT unless express permission is obtained from the the organisor, or the rules allow for such exceptions.
Passing a test used to detect exogeneous testosterone despite having exogeneous testosterone in your system does not mean the rules aren’t broken. It means there is no evidence that you are breaking the rules. And the test sucks.
If an organisation running a natural competition expressly states that all competitors, natural or unnatural, may take part as long as their testosterone levels fall within normal range, no rule is being broken.[/quote]
I realize I worded my response poorly and figured that would be your response.
Matty is not competing at the Olympics. Now, I have no idea what the rules of the federation(s) he competed in are as far as TUE/value required to be considered a positive test. It’s entirely possible that he is not breaking the rules of his competition, but per the above quote he should still be ashamed anyways. In fact he(and any hypothetical TRT patient) was shamed before anyone asked for details about his competition and its ruleset and guidelines for testing.
Basically the only issue in all of this is that TRT is far harder to get an exemption for because people who actually cheat the system fuck it up for people who legitimately need it. Nobody would blink if a person puffed an inhaler, they’d assume they had a TUE(except maybe in mega endurance events where an inhaler would be like, the testosterone of PEDs). But god forbid you got your natural T levels to 600 ng/dl from 200, and boosted your T:E ratio to a daunting 2:1. You’re clearly going to smoke those poor, ‘actually natural,’ ignorant to your massive advantage fools you are competing against.
Please.[/quote]
But, again, you’re debating the validity of the rules, which I’m not.
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And again it does not matter what form of test he passed if the rules state exogeneous testostosterone is banned. It is logically impossible to not be breaking the rules in his case.
And what on earth are you talking when bringing up inhalers? I use one so that I don’t DIE from bronchial constriction. It does not increase lung capacity. If there was a ban on the in a sporting event, I simply won’t take part.
[quote]You should feel ashamed for following the rules, because even though you’re following them, you’re breaking them in spirit.
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If you had wriiten:
“You should not be ashamed for breaking the rules, because even though you’re breaking them, you’re following them in spirit”
I would have agreed in MattyXL’s case as he says he is participating and not actually competing against others.