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Originally Posted by nfotiu
What basis do you have to say that when junior hockey players, triathletes, nhl players, minor and major league baseball players, marathon runners and on and on have all been documented to take sudafed before their various activities. I know I typically run a 10k a minute or two faster if I take one of those 30 mg red sudafeds that are not slow release like the ones in allergies pills. There are studies that show increased performance on it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16531903
It does seem unlikely that slow release allergy pill could give the concentration that is above the threshold. Maybe he took it in combination with popping it with a couple of the red sudafed pills so many players take. Maybe he likes to take 2 of the allergy pills on game day because it picks him up a bit and gets him in the zone.
The threshold level is definitely enough to give you a bit of a performance boost from what I know. Not saying he is some evil guy who should be banished. But, he broke the IOC rules and should be kicked out as he was. |
I admit I was guessing, but increasing heart rate, fuel consumption and temperature early in an endurance seems like a bad idea. You are probably right then