Topic: How spread is drug usage in weightlifting?

[Andy Dick]

Do you think Hossein from Iran used drugs? Someone on the Iranian team actually accused him of it, but nothing came of it.

It would be mere guessing games on my part if he was or wasn't and really wouldn't be helpful in the end to guess.

[oldgit]

all i know is that i recently read an article by a top russian coach who was saying its entirely possible for a superheavy lifter to do 400lbs/500lbs-or 182/225kg for the 2 lifts without using drugs-at a time when world records were 213/263kg,so without actually saying it-he said it! top guys use drugs!!

[Val_0]

I know I am little late to the party but this is my question. Assuming that the WADA's claims are correct and their testing is more vigorous than it has ever been and they are using the latest and the great tech available how do these 'doping' athletes pass these tests? According to WADA they are not only looking for banned substances but also for what is knows as PCT (Post Cycle Therapy) drugs.

[Ryan Lapadat]

I would be suprised if drugs was not being used by almost all of the top athletes at the Olympics and World CHampionships of sports. It is not an optimistic look at things I know, but with the kinda money and sponsorship deals that olympians get, let alone medal winners, it is the way it is.
 
Does the Olympics allow TRT like we are seeing MMA fighters use? I think they are both WADA.

[TheRedReaper]

I know I am little late to the party but this is my question. Assuming that the WADA's claims are correct and their testing is more vigorous than it has ever been and they are using the latest and the great tech available how do these 'doping' athletes pass these tests? According to WADA they are not only looking for banned substances but also for what is knows as PCT (Post Cycle Therapy) drugs.

You're not too late. This forum is dead enough as it is, so don't hold back a post.
 
There was a girl in the Olympics this time, won't mention her name because I don't like pointing fingers without being sure, but what she said was pretty sus. See, she's been competing for years, winning world titles, but never went to the Olympics. The Chinese did not let her on the team. This year, she got in. When asked about it, she said, "Weightlifting is 70% hard work, 30% luck." Though this story may have been distorted through jealous media whose own countries' athletes' had the floor wiped with their faces. That happens a lot. But seems to me that the "30% luck" is more likely to be about not getting caught in drug tests rather than getting picked for a team and not failing on your lifts.
 
I do give her the benefit of the doubt, as like I said media is full of fuking sh!t, and I can't dumb that down at all. But I do believe a lot of countries are genuinely trying to bust their own athletes as they should be. But a lot of these drugs just don't stay in the system long enough. I really don't know much about roids, though, but I'm guessing you have to catch them pretty much on the day they took it in order to bust them.
 
 

[TheRedReaper]

I would be suprised if drugs was not being used by almost all of the top athletes at the Olympics and World CHampionships of sports. It is not an optimistic look at things I know, but with the kinda money and sponsorship deals that olympians get, let alone medal winners, it is the way it is.

But is it necessary is what I want to know? Can a guy with naturally talented genetics beat the guys who rely on drugs to get ahead? I think we'll find out oneday. Who knows when or how.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

It is slightly amusing that this forum gets less activity than a couple others while being the least censored [only spam is blocked]. But then there is also a lot less chatter about nonsense. I'd take the site down and save myself $10 a month and $15 a year but my hope is that some of the content is valuable.

[Owen Duguay]

This message is in reply to Chris LeRoux.   I was just reading a reply on Go Heavy where Sarah Robles was replying to an inappropriate, impolite post about her at the Olympics.    Many of the posts on Go Heavy are argumentive, and lack respect.    It has been like this since I started coming on Forums in 2005.    Now I am reading the posts on Weightlifting Exchange.    No personal attacks that I can see yet.    No unjust or negative criticisms so far.     So yes you do have the best Forum but you need to look at the pertinance of the presence of politics and the necessity of having political messages in an Olympic Weightlifting forms.   Anyways the activity will pick up after the summer as weightlifting is more a winter sport than a summer sport.    All my best regards to all who participate on  Weightlifting Exchange.