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<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n![<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nT<\/a>he world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition<\/a>\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics<\/a> state that there is little or no evidence of their effectiveness or safety.\u00a0 Even for\u00a0 the\u00a0 best known of these drugs, anabolic steroids<\/a> , the evidence is largely anecdotal. There is\u00a0 no good evidence adrenaline related<\/a> cold remedies enhance performance either.<\/p>\nThe most effective cheating strategy is\u00a0 to get into a category where you are competing with someone who is younger, female or is less disabled than you. \u00a0<\/p>\nThe Spanish \u2018learning disabilities\u2019 basketball team in the 2001 Paralympics was comprised of 10 of 12 non disabled players. Players also often are reclassified with different disabilities when their status is challenged.\u00a0 During the course of the 2008 Games there were 99 functional reclassifications, 63 visual impairment reclassifications and 13 athletes reclassified again after their first appearance in front of the classifiers!<\/p>\nJunior international football is also a fertile area for this sort of cheating.\u00a0 Much of it is flagrant \u2013 whole teams with the same date of birth on their forged birth certificates and\u00a0 \u2018under 16\u2019 players all going shopping for their children. The distal radius in the wrist should be fused in less than 1% of 17 year olds.\u00a0 In a trial of wrist MR scanning to look for this there were rates of up to 35%. \u00a0When \u00a0wrist MR scaning was introduced<\/a> \u00a0for the under 17 World Cup in 2009 some teams replaced up to 15 of their squads!<\/p>\n\u00a0The plain fact is that professional sport is a dirty and unpleasant business and fell running should have as little as possible to do with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics state that there is little or no evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sepp%20Blatter%20RUSSIA3.jpg\"){kind=link}
<\/a><\/p>\n T<\/a>he world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition<\/a>\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics<\/a> state that there is little or no evidence of their effectiveness or safety.\u00a0 Even for\u00a0 the\u00a0 best known of these drugs, anabolic steroids<\/a> , the evidence is largely anecdotal. There is\u00a0 no good evidence adrenaline related<\/a> cold remedies enhance performance either.<\/p>\n The most effective cheating strategy is\u00a0 to get into a category where you are competing with someone who is younger, female or is less disabled than you. \u00a0<\/p>\n The Spanish \u2018learning disabilities\u2019 basketball team in the 2001 Paralympics was comprised of 10 of 12 non disabled players. Players also often are reclassified with different disabilities when their status is challenged.\u00a0 During the course of the 2008 Games there were 99 functional reclassifications, 63 visual impairment reclassifications and 13 athletes reclassified again after their first appearance in front of the classifiers!<\/p>\n Junior international football is also a fertile area for this sort of cheating.\u00a0 Much of it is flagrant \u2013 whole teams with the same date of birth on their forged birth certificates and\u00a0 \u2018under 16\u2019 players all going shopping for their children. The distal radius in the wrist should be fused in less than 1% of 17 year olds.\u00a0 In a trial of wrist MR scanning to look for this there were rates of up to 35%. \u00a0When \u00a0wrist MR scaning was introduced<\/a> \u00a0for the under 17 World Cup in 2009 some teams replaced up to 15 of their squads!<\/p>\n \u00a0The plain fact is that professional sport is a dirty and unpleasant business and fell running should have as little as possible to do with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics state that there is little or no evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![<\/a><\/p>\nT<\/a>he world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition<\/a>\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics<\/a> state that there is little or no evidence of their effectiveness or safety.\u00a0 Even for\u00a0 the\u00a0 best known of these drugs, anabolic steroids<\/a> , the evidence is largely anecdotal. There is\u00a0 no good evidence adrenaline related<\/a> cold remedies enhance performance either.<\/p>\nThe most effective cheating strategy is\u00a0 to get into a category where you are competing with someone who is younger, female or is less disabled than you. \u00a0<\/p>\nThe Spanish \u2018learning disabilities\u2019 basketball team in the 2001 Paralympics was comprised of 10 of 12 non disabled players. Players also often are reclassified with different disabilities when their status is challenged.\u00a0 During the course of the 2008 Games there were 99 functional reclassifications, 63 visual impairment reclassifications and 13 athletes reclassified again after their first appearance in front of the classifiers!<\/p>\nJunior international football is also a fertile area for this sort of cheating.\u00a0 Much of it is flagrant \u2013 whole teams with the same date of birth on their forged birth certificates and\u00a0 \u2018under 16\u2019 players all going shopping for their children. The distal radius in the wrist should be fused in less than 1% of 17 year olds.\u00a0 In a trial of wrist MR scanning to look for this there were rates of up to 35%. \u00a0When \u00a0wrist MR scaning was introduced<\/a> \u00a0for the under 17 World Cup in 2009 some teams replaced up to 15 of their squads!<\/p>\n\u00a0The plain fact is that professional sport is a dirty and unpleasant business and fell running should have as little as possible to do with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The world cup bid has centred attention on corrupt sport.\u00a0 Bidding processes aside not a major competition\u00a0 goes by without headlines relating to \u2018performance enhancing drugs\u2019.\u00a0 There is little evidence that banned\u00a0 drugs are effective indeed the American college of Paediatrics state that there is little or no evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sepp%20Blatter%20RUSSIA1.jpg\"){kind=link}
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