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in track and field, gymnastics, swimmers, and other disciplines requiring added endurance cheating with steroids, blood doping, HGH and anything else we can think of but North Korean shooter Kim Jong Su booted out for failing a drug test????

macrae1234 wrote:in track and field, gymnastics, swimmers, and other disciplines requiring added endurance cheating with steroids, blood doping, HGH and anything else we can think of but North Korean shooter Kim Jong Su booted out for failing a drug test????

I hadn't heard of this case, but shooters are among the biggest dopers. They take something that slows down their heartbeat, so there's more of a window to aim and shoot without the movement of the heart affecting the aim. At least that's what I've heard.

That makes sense hadn't thought of that angle.

In the first major doping scandal of the Beijing Olympics, a North Korean pistol shooter has been stripped of his silver and bronze medals after testing positive for the drug propranolol. The drug, which belongs to a class called beta-blockers, would not be considered a performance-enhancing drug in most sports; it works by blocking the action of adrenaline, and therefore lowers blood pressure and heart rate.

Propranolol is a great drug, usually considered abusive, Shooters and archers and such in sports, classical musicians auditioning doing the "100 bassoon players assessed blindly for one position" shtick, or who have stage fright, golfers on the putting green.