In sport there are many things that do not run perfect. Fairness in competition is a key word with which one hour-long debates can trigger.
I consider myself as an athlete tends to be very fair. Only "tend" because you can not really control who you at the swim start now on a fry. Because it is virtually impossible to get on board as one of only three outstretched Geltuben and thus different to be considered. Because it is sometimes just stupid, even "fair" (ie, alone and with no slipstream) to drive, if left pass by platoons with thirty, forty athletes wheel to wheel on one.
fight since my childhood I have a problem that is abused in sports, especially in professional sports, often as a pretext, as a means to an end: I am asthmatic.
been in previous years tried this disease to be with homeopathy Mr. (which brought me sleepless nights, an allergy to sheep's wool and the prophecy, he could push never in my life sport without killing myself), I also found, among the ten years to traditional medicine. And not long after the sports.
Only: I am now, more or less dependent on medications to take with me, which, as you so sweetly on the black list.
It went to me saying that this medication reported in the various sports federations such as Swiss or the Olympic Tri Austria was. So I filled each year appropriate forms of anti-doping companies, and has been registered. Only: because my medication were in a division where one of "simplified procedure" language (or German: Doctor's signs, approved it gets), it became clear very soon - such a sweep of the signed authorization says nothing. Virtually everyone who wanted to, got the stamp of Okay on the use of drugs, which supports the lung function - and many more. The sad thing is that I am more than just an athlete confirmed this - but do not run in red.
But apparently it is now over. From this year, so 2009 it is no longer enough from a doctor to prescribe remedies let - you must prove his illness by the prescribed test. This means that an athlete of "Performance asthma suffers (ie, shortness of breath, which is operating at loads), is clamped to a ergometer and there must be under medical supervision really give the edge before anything is approved. In acute asthma permanent (thus me) a methacholine test is required - a lung function test with subsequent inhalation of asthma-provoking substances.
Yesterday it was for me so far - I had my test. A week earlier, was "allowed" to sell me the medication altogether, and then was measured.
I felt rarely in my life so uncomfortable in that booth - After the third delivery of the methacholine test had to be canceled because my lung function had dropped to well below 80% of the standard. I also feel the after effects today, the morning after, and if I remember my last such test, then it will take a while until I'm fully operational again. My asthma is unfortunately still quite real - but thanks to the sport, I find it increasingly easier to control the disease.
means for me specifically, Locarno is an experiment. I would not continue to deviate from my bar and will instead tackle the competition without medication - which is used again when the methacholine completely is deported.
In view of my ambitions in the Challenge Barcelona, it is important to me heal, have made themselves fully again - even if that means to let others go first on Sunday.
doping in triathlon, as everywhere, in the meantime, unfortunately, definitely an issue. And while most of the top athletes will be controlled so well that the national anti-doping agencies modest even know if even an aspirin is taken, so more and more recreational athletes begin to abuse drugs in order to increase their performance. Unfortunately, this is neither a statement frustration on my part nor Urban legend but a fact of which must not ignore it.
The WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) always takes new steps to prevent this (the above mentioned adjustments to the provisions concerning anti-asthmatics were such a step), but in the end the responsibility lies primarily with us: the athletes. outside
Therefore my appeal to you there: remains fair. Makes even a trip to the appropriate sites on the Internet, read the competition rules by - and rejoice when you have finished a competition on its own. Because that's the point, finally, is it?
www.antidoping.ch - the Anti-Doping Association of Switzerland
www.nada.at - the National Anti-Doping Agency Austria
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/ - the World Anti Doping Agency
Sincerely, Fabian
I consider myself as an athlete tends to be very fair. Only "tend" because you can not really control who you at the swim start now on a fry. Because it is virtually impossible to get on board as one of only three outstretched Geltuben and thus different to be considered. Because it is sometimes just stupid, even "fair" (ie, alone and with no slipstream) to drive, if left pass by platoons with thirty, forty athletes wheel to wheel on one.
fight since my childhood I have a problem that is abused in sports, especially in professional sports, often as a pretext, as a means to an end: I am asthmatic.
been in previous years tried this disease to be with homeopathy Mr. (which brought me sleepless nights, an allergy to sheep's wool and the prophecy, he could push never in my life sport without killing myself), I also found, among the ten years to traditional medicine. And not long after the sports.
Only: I am now, more or less dependent on medications to take with me, which, as you so sweetly on the black list.
It went to me saying that this medication reported in the various sports federations such as Swiss or the Olympic Tri Austria was. So I filled each year appropriate forms of anti-doping companies, and has been registered. Only: because my medication were in a division where one of "simplified procedure" language (or German: Doctor's signs, approved it gets), it became clear very soon - such a sweep of the signed authorization says nothing. Virtually everyone who wanted to, got the stamp of Okay on the use of drugs, which supports the lung function - and many more. The sad thing is that I am more than just an athlete confirmed this - but do not run in red.
But apparently it is now over. From this year, so 2009 it is no longer enough from a doctor to prescribe remedies let - you must prove his illness by the prescribed test. This means that an athlete of "Performance asthma suffers (ie, shortness of breath, which is operating at loads), is clamped to a ergometer and there must be under medical supervision really give the edge before anything is approved. In acute asthma permanent (thus me) a methacholine test is required - a lung function test with subsequent inhalation of asthma-provoking substances.
Yesterday it was for me so far - I had my test. A week earlier, was "allowed" to sell me the medication altogether, and then was measured.
I felt rarely in my life so uncomfortable in that booth - After the third delivery of the methacholine test had to be canceled because my lung function had dropped to well below 80% of the standard. I also feel the after effects today, the morning after, and if I remember my last such test, then it will take a while until I'm fully operational again. My asthma is unfortunately still quite real - but thanks to the sport, I find it increasingly easier to control the disease.
means for me specifically, Locarno is an experiment. I would not continue to deviate from my bar and will instead tackle the competition without medication - which is used again when the methacholine completely is deported.
In view of my ambitions in the Challenge Barcelona, it is important to me heal, have made themselves fully again - even if that means to let others go first on Sunday.
doping in triathlon, as everywhere, in the meantime, unfortunately, definitely an issue. And while most of the top athletes will be controlled so well that the national anti-doping agencies modest even know if even an aspirin is taken, so more and more recreational athletes begin to abuse drugs in order to increase their performance. Unfortunately, this is neither a statement frustration on my part nor Urban legend but a fact of which must not ignore it.
The WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) always takes new steps to prevent this (the above mentioned adjustments to the provisions concerning anti-asthmatics were such a step), but in the end the responsibility lies primarily with us: the athletes. outside
Therefore my appeal to you there: remains fair. Makes even a trip to the appropriate sites on the Internet, read the competition rules by - and rejoice when you have finished a competition on its own. Because that's the point, finally, is it?
www.antidoping.ch - the Anti-Doping Association of Switzerland
www.nada.at - the National Anti-Doping Agency Austria
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/ - the World Anti Doping Agency
Sincerely, Fabian
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