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Really any supplement should be treated with a there's probably some nasty shit in that I'd better double check to make sure approach.
Exactly. "I can't afford to get my supplements tested" is no fucking excuse for taking them. They're supposed to be a supplement for something you're lacking through diet so if you don't even know what's in them, how the fuck can you be sure they're doing their job as a supplement? You can't, it's horseshit and the book should be thrown at "tainted supplement" athletes the same as dopers.
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Especially Betsema whose supplement came from a pharmacist, so made to order presumably rather than commercially available off the shelf. Such a bullshit excuse.
Darryl Impey should be lumped in the same category, his excuse was so obviously bullshit too.
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Yeah there does need to be a hard ruling on this. Its up to the athlete to make sure they're clean so claiming to have taken something accidentally isn't an acceptable excuse or they are simply lying so should be considered the same as doping. The fact there still seems to be this wiggle room that if you can prove its from a tainted supplement/steak you often get away with it for a first offence there is no reason for the manufacturers to improve or the athletes to test for themselves as if something gets flagged the company apologise and say they'll up the QC from now on but probably won't as no one will be checking and only at that point does the athlete have to be more careful in future. So they need to be a bit stricter on the athlete and a lot stricter on the companies as they seem to have very little kick back in these situations. If the company or pharmacist can take the blame for the athlete but thats it and nothing really happens no huge fine or loss of license to trade then whats the point?
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So we know supplements are often poor quality or tainted and in the absence of any real regulation/enforcement shouldn't teams as a duty of care for its athletes or individual athletes being professional and taking this problem seriously be independently testing what they are using? A mate of mine looks after the weight cut for several top mma fighters and professional boxers and if they have the budget he'll get their sponsored supplements tested and if not he tells them to stop using it and uses what he knows to be quality and clean. He reckons 80% of supplements he's tested are under nutritionally and 10-15% tainted in some way from uk companies and about double that from American suppliers. So with those kind of odds the standard its what my sponsors gave me i thought it'd be alright excuse doesn't really wash anymore. Really any supplement should be treated with a there's quite possibly some nasty shit in that I'd better double check before I use it approach if you are a professional.