No offense brother, but the sanctimonious belief you're touting is the same held by most casual sports fans and it exposes their naivete. Most college athletes take shyt, even high school athletes take shyt. The athletes saying that are full of shyt and probably take PEDs themselves. It's all a huge fukking game and the coaches, the medical personnel, the front office, and the league office(s) are in on it, too.
There is nothing wrong with taking drugs to enhance recovery. Everyone does it, the only ones that get caught are too dumb to pass the tests. The leagues put up this phony image like they care when in reality they know their entire fortune would be obliterated if these drugs were truly prohibited. Don't believe the hype; they're pretending to crack down on this shyt.
You notice how tons of guys are getting busted for ADD meds or stims? That's a horseshyt lie put out by the league's PR. They probably got caught with heavier shyt like testosterone or HGH, but Adderall doesn't sound as scary. Remember when Roger Mathis got caught using Clomid (an AI that guys use when they get off a cycle)? He got a little slap on the wrist and nothing happened. It's all nonsense.
This is just the reality of sports. The romanticized Sports Illustrated illusion I once believed was shattered the older I got and the more I got involved in fitness. Weightlifting and football go hand-in-hand and it's no surprise most of these guys take similar shyt.
In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong morally with taking PEDs. Nothing. The legal supplement industry makes billions selling bunk, do-nothing nonsense for the same intention--you know, to enhance sports and fitness performance--but because it's "natural" (aka, it doesn't do jack shyt) somehow it makes it okay, but god forbid people take drugs that can actually improve their lives.
Are there inherent risks? Absolutely. But the drugs are a lot safer when carefully managed/monitored than most people think.
The thing is, you're making some huge generalizations and are quite frankly exaggerating.
I ran track in college(division 1), and I never took any shyt, and I know a lot of other athletes that didn't either.
Now i'm not naive, I realize a lot of people take hgh or whatever, but honestly some athletes don't have to take anything. Or those that would benefit simply choose not to.
It's really easy for people to go on these grand exaggerations and think everyone is on something.
I don't know what you look like, but honestly it's usually fat dudes and nonathletic dudes who make all these huge exaggerations about everyone more ripped than them, or faster than them being on something. It's a rationalization mechanism to save their ego.
Point being, there's a lot of professional and collegiate athletes that really don't take any of that shyt.
shocking, I know.
No offense brother, but the sanctimonious belief you're touting is the same held by most casual sports fans and it exposes their naivete. Most college athletes take shyt, even high school athletes take shyt. The athletes saying that are full of shyt and probably take PEDs themselves. It's all a huge fukking game and the coaches, the medical personnel, the front office, and the league office(s) are in on it, too.
Even if they were would they even admit it?
Who knows, but I don't think so.
. I have never met a person in real life spouting this PED bullshyt...it's completely media driven. Fans stopped coming to games after the strike. Baseball was in trouble. After the PED shyt broke nary a fukk was given outside of the aforementioned media. shyt even greats such as Bob Gibson and Willie Mays said they would try it if had been available in their time. The guys in their era were popping greenies (amphatimines) like candy. So really all this comes down to is reporters experiencing anal discomfort over their gods being passed up.

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