On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:49:44 +0200, "Darren Cooper"
<<>Ethics does not enter into it>>
It actualy does.
All the rules of sport - regarding stuff like steroids and hormones -
are ethical arguments.
It is ethical action that took Ben Johnson's gold medal away from him.
<<>One can get creatine from eating a lot of mutton,>>
How much mutton?
Why not eat mutton then?
<<>Is it unethical to eat Pasta etc for carbo's of fish for protien ?
It is deemed not unethical. Probably because it is food in normal
quantities and prepared in a "normal"way.
You can walk into an Italian home and get pasta on the table.
Will you get artificially extracted creatine in powder form on the
table?
There is a difference between rugby and some body building crowds
where steroids and all sorts of things are accepted to increase muscle
mass.
Rugby has a code that in general prohibits artificial building of the
body and chemical enhancement of performance. That is the way it is.
If you test positive for steroids in rugby you get booted out for a
long time. Same if you take chemicals to make you run faster and for
longer.
Now creatine comes along and what is it?
It is a natural substance that is artificially refined and
concentrated.
How does it differ in this from hormones or steroids?
Seems to me much the same.
It is also a substance that builds muscle and makes you run faster and
last longer. In fact faster than you would have if you had eaten a
meal of mutton and pasta.
How does it differ - ETHICALLY - from steroids or uppers or hormones
in this?
Seems much the same to me.
Where it DOES differ, is that it seems allmost impossible to detect.