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  • Large edge? Data please.
    Anyway, food not drug.
    Hypoxic training is also responder dependant so may have no/little effect and is also not a drug nor does it involve transfusion or other blood manipulation.
    If you think training at altitude is potentially unethical, is training unethical?

  • See, you've done that thing you do where you reply in bulk to everyone's posts and don't always take the time to read the content.
    My point is that there are many, many ways athletes look to find the edge over their rivals, some which are clearly legal even if they're a bit weird (many pints of beetroot juice every day), some which are rather complex and unnatural (hypoxic training) and others which start going way into the murky grey area, which may be legal but one would probably argue are against the morals of sport as we intend it to be. Until Jan this year (or jan last, if you want to look at when it was added to the monitoring list), melondonium was one of these things.

  • Beetroot juice vs. riding up high mountains vs. taking a 'drug to treat serious heart problems and aid the circulation of oxygen'

    You're really suggesting this is a grey area?

  • melondonium

    Is melondonium not just a food? That makes it ok, doesn't it?

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