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In fact, when used chronically, it will have less of a PE effect than if used acutely for a sporting event.
Why he may have tested negative before won't be known, as only positive's are announced. Negatives are assumed from no positives.
Frankly, I consider it more damning that he HASN'T tested positive before....that actually suggests it was being used only for the competition, which is how you would gain the most benefit from it use.
Finally, there is absolutely NO excuse for his not filing a TUE for the med. With all he had/has to lose from this positive test...?? What the eff would he and his handlers be thinking to not do this?
I asked else where, if he's on a prescription, then that would always come up. So in theory, is this likely to be a deviation from that?
Or if its positive does that mean it has acutely been used as you say?
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However there is a third option - PRIOR to being tested, approach WADA with all the appropriate evidence to obtain a TUE, have it approved, and continue racing while taking Adderall.
Coincidence??
All these years we've heard about people using EPOs and steroids and such. Who'd have guessed the drug that got the first person busted would be a downer?
We dont know if he hasnt filed a TUE or not.
Not to mention, you are lumping adderall into a category with EPO and thats not even close. As a doctor, you should know better than that. Under NO circumstances will EPO be allowed even with a TUE. But adderall would be allowed, that should tell you something as far as whats really a PED and whats not.
Under that logic, using an inhaler for asthma should be considered a PED. So should aspirin, BCAAs or anything else that makes you better than you would normally be with out them. Under a doctors care EPO is helpful to those who need it. But it wont ever be allowed in competition no matter the circumstances.
I highly doubt James would be getting the support he is if he took EPO or was caught blood doping. And we dont even know what he tested positive for.
Lastly, if he filed a TUE and failed a test, no one would have known about it.
But regardless, none of that doesn't change the rules or what is in the list. I don't like that I have to pay taxes. But fuck, you know what. That's the rules.
If I have a tax exemption because i'm registered as a prime producer, I get an allowance. But I have to do that ahead of time. That's the rules. If I don't, they go batshit. If I try tell them afterwards, they want proof.
Absurd or not, that's the list. Because Doctors much smarter than you or I have deemed it is an advantage.
The ones that have a medical reasoning behind them to take them, such as Adderall, have been given a frame work to allow them to be used, with due consideration of prior lodged paper work. Process. James, his Doctors, his crew, team whatever, all could have avoided this just by following procedure.
I know I take asthma medication. I know it. James would know what he's taking. Any sane person would just go, hey, what's in this shit, am I allowed to take it since i'm getting drug tested? Which, btw, again, this was the 2nd to last round.
It's not hard. If you don't follow the list tho, you run into a bunch of ethical and philosophical questions about what is performance enhancing, why not just let them cheat etc etc. You're almost saying it's a long list so I should be ok to get away with it because i'm fucking ignorant!
Have you read the laws around taxes? Around finances? Around loads of stuff. It's pretty complex and people abide by it fairly easily.
As for being the only one that has failed, he's the only one that has been made known, so since that's all i'm interested in, or what you or anyone else should be, why don't we keep the tin foil armadillo hat theories in the dumbgeon.
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