Clomifene is used to ameliorate the side effects of testosterone, some testosterone you take will be converted by your body to estrogen and clomifene blocks estrogen. Basically you take it to prevent breast growth.

> Basically you take it to prevent breast growth.

This.

Probably more well known by its trade name Clomid in the body building underground, it's often used towards the tail end of steroid cycles by men to prevent the onset of gynecomastia a.k.a. bitch tits.

The article says it isn't performance enhancing.

If the bridge association is blindly adopting rules meant to govern physical athletic performances -- or if the IOC is forcing them to do so -- then the people responsible are obviously a bunch of morons. That conclusion seems unlikely to be the right one, so I'll stand by my point until more information comes to light. I'm not professionally qualified to argue it either way.

"Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing”."

So I don't think its reasonable to go looking to performance enhancement as a reason.

To me it does appear that they're following rules meant for actual athletes. How much choice they had I don't know.

So? Are you going to take some Bridge player's word over the medical consensus?

"Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing”."

That isn't some Bridge player.

She isn't a doctor or a pharmacologist! Why would you even value her opinion when it is confirmed that testosterone has potent psychoactive effects? I don't care if she's the space pope of the galactic bridge federation, her opinion is voided by biological fact.