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Originally Posted by MichaelFarker
Coincidentally, if an olympic athlete drinks 6 cups of coffee he may be banned, since caffeine is prohibited by the International Olympic Committee (for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine, approx 5-6 cups of coffee).
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Actually, according to the TV show I saw during the week, caffeine is no longer on the banned substance list...
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How far would you go to win at your favourite sport? Would you take anything that's not on the banned list? Or would you refuse even a simple supplement?
In this sweaty episode, John Marsden asks what counts as cheating today. For instance - he tests claims that caffeine improves stamina by about 5% (which is plenty enough to make the difference between fourth and gold) and asks if it's true, how come caffeine is off the banned list for the Athens Olympics?
John also meets people with very different attitudes to the use of drugs and supplements in sport. Chris has been taking steroids to improve his muscles for so long that he's seen both the good and bad effects. But he still thinks it's worthwhile, and is convinced it's not cheating - because steroids alone aren't enough to make you a competition winner.
London's worst hockey team 'The Sinners' are willing to try anything and get roped into an experiment to see if a pharmacy supplement really can give you an athlete's body without the hard work. Can Creatine really be better than exercise?
Mark Richardson, 400 metre sprinter and Olympic silver medallist, tells how he convinced the sport's authorities that his positive test result for the banned steroid Nandrolone, was caused by apparently innocent dietary supplements.
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The most interesting part of this was the hockey team though, who showed that taking a creatine supplement was more effective than exercising at improving performance.