If used in a way that doesn't enhance performance but allows an athlete to recover from injury faster than it isn't cheating in my opinion.
There should be a burden of proof on the athlete though to show they are using it and doing so with a prescription purely to clear up an injury or illness.
... using it encouraged an athlete to play their chosen sport in such a way that they took more risks of injury, knowing that they could heal faster if they did get hurt, giving them an advantage over those who try to avoid injury (because they have ethical problems with the drug)?
I guess if everyone used it, that issue would go away. But I got the feeling from your Lance Armstrong opinions that if an advantage is granted, you aren't too concerned with whether or not everyone else is doing it at the same time.
And there could still be negative consequences for some sports if you by extension encouraged reckless playstyles. Sports might grow more dangerous as a result, and maybe you would end up with people getting even worse injuries, so that they'd be out for a long time even with the drug. But that's a separate issue from the question of whether or not it's cheating.
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Are all PEDs cheating?
- 29/01/2013 06:46:28 PM
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isn't "healing faster than humanly possible" pretty much equivalent to "gain an unfair advantage"? *NM*
- 29/01/2013 08:17:09 PM
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I prefer to think about it like this:
- 29/01/2013 08:34:35 PM
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no.
- 29/01/2013 09:00:02 PM
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What if ...
- 29/01/2013 09:21:00 PM
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