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March 5th, 2018, 4:20 pm

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Re: performance enhancing drugs

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Re: performance enhancing drugs

March 5th, 2018, 5:11 pm

Did anybody here had any direct or indirect (via friends:)) experience with https://www.trubrain.com/ ?  
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Absolutely, not!!!! I'm not related to this product in any shape or form. I just thought it's the right topic to ask the question. 
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

March 5th, 2018, 8:55 pm

Did anybody here had any direct or indirect (via friends:)) experience with https://www.trubrain.com/ ?  
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Absolutely, not!!!! I'm not related to this product in any shape or form. I just thought it's the right topic to ask the question. 
You mean, your are not a new member?

This thread is about 'drugs'. Are you sure? What about the negative waves.
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

March 5th, 2018, 10:49 pm

Did anybody here had any direct or indirect (via friends:)) experience with https://www.trubrain.com/ ?  
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Absolutely, not!!!! I'm not related to this product in any shape or form. I just thought it's the right topic to ask the question. 
Please, do not take it personally. But people here have become suspicious about anyone since that story of Russian curlers failing drug tests.
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

March 6th, 2018, 6:54 am

meanwhile
Canelo Alvarez blames contaminated meat for failed drug test
mexican boxer, trace amounts of clenbuterol. Oddly, WADA (world anti-doping agency) seem on top of it and seem to be taking no action
if the drug sounds familiar, it's the same one cyclist alberto contador was accused of taking, under similar circumstances: trace amounts showed up in a test and he blamed contaminated meat. It's an asthma drug but can be used to strip fat and hence reduce weight.
wiki relates what happened to contador:
In late January 2011, the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) proposed a one-year ban, but it subsequently accepted Contador's appeal and cleared him of all charges. Contador returned to racing in February in the Volta ao Algarve, a race he won in 2009 and 2010. The UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency each appealed the RFEC decision independently to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in March 2011, but Contador remained free to ride until the CAS made its ruling. The hearing with CAS was initially scheduled for June, but following an extension requested by Contador's legal team, it was rearranged for August, in the week following the 2011 Tour de France, and later postponed again until November 2011, with the result to be given in 2012. The decision on 6 February 2012 found Contador guilty of accidental ingestion of the prohibited substance Clenbuterol and hence he was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title, and his results since that race, including victory in the 2011 Giro d'Italia and fifth place in the 2011 Tour de France, were voided, and he was suspended until August 2012. The following day, in a press conference, his contract with Team Saxo Bank was annulled.
So CAS seems to have accepted Contador's contaminated meat story, but banned him anyway and took away a tour de france win

Same drug and same excuse as for the boxer alvarez, who seems to have been given a pass
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

May 3rd, 2018, 9:03 am

Kenya's former Olympic 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop says he will prove he is a "clean athlete" after reports he failed an out-of-competition drugs test.
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The 28-year-old three-time world champion reportedly tested positive for banned blood-boosting agent EPO.
Kiprop finished second at the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was upgraded to gold when Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi failed a drug test.
Nicholas Willis is the current silver medalist from the 2008 olympics 1500, so would be next in line to get the gold medal if kiprop is stripped of the title
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

May 5th, 2018, 11:23 pm

more on kiprop
Asbel Kiprop: Former Olympic champion tipped off about doping visit
In a statement released via his lawyer on Thursday, Kiprop said:
He was phoned the night before and told he would be tested, a breach of anti-doping rules
Testers asked for an unspecified sum of money
the money is disputed, but it seems to be agreed by both sides that he was told about the test the night before
If that's common practice (giving advance notice of the test in exchange for cash) that might explain some of those bizarre missed tests
 
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Re: performance enhancing drugs

May 6th, 2018, 5:51 am

more on kiprop
Asbel Kiprop: Former Olympic champion tipped off about doping visit
In a statement released via his lawyer on Thursday, Kiprop said:
He was phoned the night before and told he would be tested, a breach of anti-doping rules
Testers asked for an unspecified sum of money
the money is disputed, but it seems to be agreed by both sides that he was told about the test the night before
If that's common practice (giving advance notice of the test in exchange for cash) that might explain some of those bizarre missed tests
It looks like El Gerrouj still is the fastest runner ever on this distance, holding the record since 1998. The good old days!
 
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November 20th, 2018, 5:40 pm

British quarter-miler Nigel Levine,  has been banned for four years after testing positive for clenbuterol – a performance-enhancing drug that helps burn fat, builds muscle, and improves athletic performance.
He is on the British 4x400m relay team and had won nine world and European championship medals
No word on how many, if any, of those medals will be stripped
He is 29, so 33 when the ban is lifted
 
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January 5th, 2019, 4:57 pm

90 Year Old Cyclist Carl Grove Stripped of Title and Record After Failing Doping Test
A 90-year-old American cyclist has been stripped of a Masters title and record after returning a positive drugs test, the US Anti-Doping Agency has announced.
Carl Grove set a world record as he won the men’s 90-94 sprint category at the Masters Track National Championships in July of last year.
The veteran racer has said that contaminated meat was the reason behind the failed test submitted after the event, which identified the banned substance epitrenbolone.
As far as I can tell from the results, he was the only person in the event, so taking drugs to win doesn't seem to make a lot of sense
 
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January 5th, 2019, 9:39 pm

 "I was told to avoid lifting weights for a back pain and became a weightlifter: never had a back problem since. "
 
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January 5th, 2019, 11:57 pm

Core muscles protect the spine. Similarly, the joint degeneration can be remedied by strengthening muscles in the body. There are no excuses from workouts... ;-)
 
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January 6th, 2019, 11:38 am

Core muscles protect the spine. Similarly, the joint degeneration can be remedied by strengthening muscles in the body. There are no excuses from workouts... ;-)
The quote is from NNT,

Kisuburu Watanabe was a judo instructor at the Budokwai in London. Most judokas are right-handed as he was but he decided to learn left-handed down to writing, tieing shoe-laces.


https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33677567.pdf