Weightlifting and Steroids

[Guest guest]

Was: Bodybuilding and Steroids

What is the incidence of steroid use in (competitive) Weightlifting?

[This is anyone's guess, because nobody talks about this issue in

Weightlifting, largely because of legal and competitive actions which

might result. One would imagine that steroid use has always

been common in over 60% of all lifters. However, this sort of

speculation is going to be of no consequence, particularly because

it is fairly likely that steroids have been widely used in almost

all sports over the past few decades. Even today, many athletes

know how to take steroids without detection, especially during the

off-season. It would be interesting to see if the same level of militant

anti-doping action were to be conducted on every player at random

every fortnight during the competitive and off-season for all pro sports.

If this level of thoroughness were to become commonplace, it would be

interesting to see how NFL, NBA and NHL athletes, for example, would fare.

Can you imagine what would happen alone in the case of college athletic

scholarships? Let's just recognise the current anti-doping system for

the farce and hypocrisy that it currently is. Mel Siff]

Sandeep Krishna

Bangalore, India.