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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by orwin on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:51AM (#24825841)
I know for a fact that 3 isn't even used on national-cup event in France, at least for sailing, canoe and kayak events. Or rather, that the club and physical preparators from this club advise against anything other than supplements, and even the French Kayak champion (Joly) only take a few of those, only 1/3rd of a year.
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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by nix23 on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:41AM (#24826259)
>sailing, canoe and kayak events

How much money is behind those sports? Hint...NOT much. We Talk about Cycling, Athletics, Football and so on..

>I know for a fact that 3 isn't even used on national-cup event in France

No you don't.

BTW: I knew for a Fact that Lance Armstrong was the biggest Cycle Pro ever born and he would never need doping because he was just in another league then anyone else.

EDIT: Would you look at that:

http://sportscene.tv/paddlesports/2016/07/doping-problem-in-...

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/rio-2016-doping-scandal-hit...

But that's the Romanian Team...would never happen in France right?

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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by bluGill on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:31PM (#24829359)
There is a lot of money in sailing, but in general most of the gains there are from better boats, so the backers putting money in aren't likely spend money on doping. (doping would help, but every dollar spent on dope is a dollar not spent on boat design)
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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by nix23 on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:49PM (#24829553)
>There is a lot of money in sailing

Not the Olympic sailing...Oracle stuff yes...but do you really need doping for sailing? It's more about tactics not ultra high-end body-strength..i sailed Lasers for 4 years and it is demanding, but nothing against Street-cycling/CrossCountry

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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by wildmanx on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:00AM (#24834582)
> >sailing, canoe and kayak events

> How much money is behind those sports? Hint...NOT much. We Talk about Cycling, Athletics, Football and so on..

No, the parent talked about:

> basically every elite athlete is doping.

That's just not true. Unless you have a totally twisted understanding of what an athlete is.

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