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TM Answer to "Who Said It?"… Information for Athlete Support Personnel and What's the Dope on Cannabinoids? Vince Lombardi others interested in football coach leveling the playing field continued from page 5 Remembered for his dedication April – June 2008 VOLUME 8 / ISSUE 2 disease. When the immune cells are weakened the requirements that come with being an elite and enthusiasm, Vince Lombardi A publication dedicated to you are more likely to get sick. competitor clash with a particular “culture”. And is one of Football’s greatest and most respected? coaches. For more providing timely and accurate TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: sometimes you have to take a stand and make decisions • The Brain: Some studies show that when people information on Vince Lombardi, My Health. anti-doping information for which allow you to compete clean, protect your own those involved, and interested, have smoked large amounts of marijuana for please visit www.vincelombardi.com. in the Olympic/Paralympic years, the drug takes its toll on mental functions. integrity and the integrity of your sport. What's the Dope on Cannabinoids??? My Sport. Movement Heavy or daily use of marijuana affects the parts of the brain that control memory, attention and These marijuana facts were taken from learning. materials published by the National Institute take a stand against My ictory. on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institutes In This Issue: Did you know... Smoking marijuana causes some changes in doping! of Health (NIH). 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My [ 1 ] • Distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, Once in a while someone will say that using marijuana the good in the world? A society that didn’t put attention on the few Cannabinoids? Athletes work so hard to reach the elite level of www.usada.org. Victory. I Compete Clean. touch) is “just part of our sport’s culture”. However, sometimes competition. Using these drugs could potentially who break the law or otherwise cheat? A place where kids would (pronunced: ka-nab'i-noydz) • Difficulty thinking and problem solving dream about and try to be more like others who do good? Blood Testing: The Basics [ 2 ] compromise your athletic career. • Loss of motor coordination and decreased Imagine reading headlines featuring YOU and all the other hard Sports Step Up to Help [ 2 ] Cannabinoids are any of If you are not convinced that a positive test could reaction time working, devoted athletes who train with dedication, integrity and for the Level the Playing Field TM TM the active chemicals of the result from using marijuana or hashish, please • An increase in pulse rate and pupil size In Search of the Spirit of Sport continued from page 4 and love of competition! Imagine, a television network regularly featuring each read further. Check out these facts and decide for These effects are even greater when other drugs and every one of you who compete clean, not only for yourself, but for your Quick Hitters [ 3 ] • Going Somewhere? Take Cannabis plant. The main active yourself: are mixed or spiked in marijuana products. Users families, your coaches, your sport and your country! USADA with You! Design: do not always know what other chemicals may have Argument 5: athlete as the apotheosis of sport. climb into Fahnestock Park near Through this initiative USADA is building a broader platform for U.S. • Early Birds Get the Bottle ingredient in cannabinoids is When you’re tested at an event, Cannabinoids/ Cristina Guerra been added to those products. Transhumanism and the re- Human ingenuity creates the means, my home more easily if I used EPO. athletes to take a stand for clean and ethical competition. It is important • It's a Jungle Out There THC is one of the many substances screened delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol manufactured athlete such as biosynthetic hormones, I could do it much more quickly Contributors: for all sport stakeholders to take an active role in preserving clean for in your urine sample. When an athlete tests What are the long-term effects of marijuana use? Jacob Baty In Search of the Spirit of [ 4 & 6 ] The skeptic’s fifth and last to alter the human body; human on a motorbike. But where is the athletes’ rights to compete on a level playing field and to help restore (THC). THC has a mind-altering positive for THC, they: Kelli Feltmann Sport So far, findings show that regular use of THC may argument may be the greatest Americans’ faith that U.S. athletes compete with honor, integrity and will finds the determination to satisfaction in that? Rich Hilderbrand Lose any results from the competition play a role in some kinds of cancer and in problems sweat equity. TM effect, changing the way the • challenge to the future of sport. employ those means despite the Humankind could devise a Betsy Liebsch with the respiratory and immune systems. Could also receive a sanction of up to Olympic athletes push the human You'll agree that this roster of athletes is impressive in every regard: • dimly understood dangers that transhumanist competition for Special Thanks to: brain works, and is found: Cancer: It’s hard to know for sure whether one-year for a first offense and two years • body to its limits. Sport science may accompany them. Therefore, cyber-athletes if it wished. I would Thomas H. Murray • cycling: Kristin Armstrong, Jeremiah Bishop, Sarah Hammer and regular marijuana use causes cancer. But it Technically Speaking: [ 5 - 6 ] • Most commonly in or more for a second violation. To find U.S. continues to discover new ways to the skeptic concludes, the not be at all surprised. But, as WADA Christine Thorburn What's the Dope on is known that marijuana contains some of • swimming: Natalie Coughlin, Michael Phelps and Dara Torres Cannabinoids? Marijuana, known by other athlete sanctions for THC from 2003 to date press past old boundaries through manufactured—literally, made- long as people care about human Editors: go to www.usada.org/what/management/ the same, and sometimes even more, of the studies of how the body responds by-hand—athlete is the highest excellence, natural talents, and the Karen Casey • track & field: Bryan Clay, Allyson Felix, Tyson Gay, Dehashia “Dee In Search of the Spirit of [ 6 ] names like: cancer-causing chemicals found in tobacco to training, optimizing recovery, Baaron Pittenger Dee” Trotter and Lauryn Williams sanctions_search.aspx expression of the human spirit. dedication and intelligence required Sport continued smoke. Studies show that someone who biomechanical analysis and other Each of these athletes uniquely stands up for clean sport. Some are verbose while others are reefer dope weed You can find more information on the WADA This, roughly, is the view of to perfect those talents, I believe Argument 5: Transhumanism smokes five joints per day may be taking techniques. The quest for knowledge certain transhumanists who want the spirit of sport, and the Olympics, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency more reserved, relying primarily on their actions to be their voices. But there is a clear and common and the Remanufactured Athlete gangster ganja Prohibited List at www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/ 1330 Quail Lake Loop grass in as many cancer-causing chemicals as and technique is a vital part of to shrug off, even transcend, the can and should survive. set of denominators from which they collectively invite all other athletes to take a stand: document/2008_List_En.pdf Suite 260 someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes what it means to be human. Why, subscribe to the spirit of Pot chronic Herb limitations of our finite, imperfect Colorado Springs, CO 80906 • We are role models ow long does stay in the body THC in every day. ™ ™ H THC ? the skeptic may ask, do we permit, bodies. I understand the spirit of "In Search of the Spirit of Phone: (719) 785-2000 • Athletic excellence is achieved through dedication, hard work and support sport and the playing field doobie Mary jane marijuana is rapidly absorbed by fatty tissues • Lungs and airways: People who smoke even encourage, using science and sport to be embodied not only in Sport" by Thomas Murray, PhD, Toll-Free: (866) 601-2632 • Being a champion means being responsible, on and off the playing field newsletter! in various organs. 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They are athletic body is through drugs, paths, or pedals up steep hills. True, 2007, issue 3. For more trademarks and Spirit of Sport, The Playing And then there’s a very clear message that these athletes send to those who dope: please send a blank e-mail to: can sometimes be detected for longer periods after implants, or—and this is more hype information on Tom Murray Field, Drug Reference Line, and the Play also at greater risk of getting lung infections The glory of sport is learning what Clean Line are trademarks of the "Cheaters might want to think twice when they realize that clean athletes will not back down until cheating is wiped [email protected] Sinsemilla (sin-she-me- and the Hastings Center, visit they have stopped using marijuana. like pneumonia. than reality at the moment—genetic we can do with the natural talents U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. All Rights Reserved. out and there is a fair playing field." www.thehastingscenter.org. E-mail us at: yah), which are more engineering? Some commentators © USADA 2008. You might be asking, how can I be involved? Go to www.usada.org/MyVictory (effective June 1st) and take a stand for What are the short-term effects of using these • Immune system: Animal studies have we have, perfecting them through [email protected] argue that we should embrace the clean sport right now, helping to uphold the integrity of sport. Take the pledge, post your name and sport and take a look at concentrated forms of THC. drugs? There are many short-term side effects, found that THC can damage the cells and admirable, persistent effort. Yes, I with suggestions or feedback technologically re-manufactured the podcasts and outtakes from some of the athletes involved in this inaugural clean sport initiative. While you’re there, read some of which include: tissues in the body that help protect against could probably ascend the four mile on newsletter articles. We look about how to submit your own clean sport podcast! We applaud all of you for your dedication and hard work for clean sport. forward to your comments. continued on page 6 Page 5 Page 6 Page 1 SPIRIT OF SPORT VOLUME 8 / ISSUE 2 In Search of the Spirit of Sport By Thomas H. Murray, PhD Blood Testing: The Basics President, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY USA The struggle for the future, and perhaps the soul, weight of massive numbers and brute force as other words, creates enormous coercive pressure It can happen at a variety of places: at your house, your training location, will be asked to make your arm available, and you’ll feel a little stick. QUICK HITTERS of sport is an ongoing conflict. The arguments teams put 30, 40 or more players on the floor. It on other athletes to also use drugs merely to or at an event. A Doping Control Officer (DCO) contacts you with a request The blood draw itself will only take a few minutes, followed by the pressed by the opponents of doping control might resemble an endless rugby scrum, only on keep up. Successful doping control levels the for a sample. This is a common experience for athletes familiar with USADA’s testing paperwork, similar to that used for a urine sample collection. A QUICK LOOK AT THE LATEST ANTI-DOPING INFORMATION FOR ATHLETES have not changed much at all in the quarter- hardwood not grass. playing field so that athletes can compete fairly testing procedures. By now, you know the standard routine, but what if the • The BCO will assess the most suitable puncture site, choosing the century since I began my research into the ethics Drawing lines is not only permissible, it is without drugs. So, even if paternalism weakens DCO is asking for more than just urine? What if he or she is asking for a blood less-dominant arm and a location that is unlikely to adversely affect of performance enhancement in sport. Five essential for preserving the meaning of each as athletes become adults, protecting athletes arguments come up repeatedly in one variation sport and of sport in general. Arbitrariness is not from the coercive power of drugs in sport remains sample? your performance. You may also request a specific arm. The most Out-Of-Competition News or another. Each of them seems plausible at first, a fatal flaw when line-drawing is necessary in this a solid ethical justification for effective doping There is a more likely chance of this occurring in the near future traditional site for blood draws is the inside of the elbow. Your DCO or but each one has serious flaws. way, and when a reasonable case can be made control. as USADA continues expanding its blood testing efforts through Out- BCO can explain your options in detail, but for those athletes that use Going Somewhere? Take USADA with YOU! Early Birds Get the Bottle Argument 1: for drawing the line in this particular place—even Argument 4: “Resistance is futile” of-Competition and pre-Competition Testing. Blood testing serves a their arms a lot, such as weightlifters, wrestlers, or field throwers, the Have you ever left for a competition and suddenly thought, “I forgot To recognize you for submitting your quarterly Athlete Location Forms “It’s all the same” if another nearby spot would have been equally Notice that I said effective doping control— very important role in USADA’s continued fight against doping in sport. back of the hand may be the better option. to update USADA!” Now USADA has a convienent resource to help (ALF), USADA is offering chances to win a great water bottle. The first argument against doping control defensible. So protein supplements and special which brings up the fourth objection: that, in the Specifically, blood testing enhances our ability to detect hormone abuse, • The amount of blood that will be drawn will not affect your remind you to update your whereabouts. This Resource Key Chain card There are two ways that you can be eligible to win: begins by noting that sport is constantly evolving diets may fall on the acceptable side of the words of the Borg from the television series Star including the use of human growth hormone (hGH). performance, and is equivalent to just over two tablespoons – this is was mailed to all athletes in the Out-of-Competition (OOC) Testing Pool 1. Early Online Submissions – Submit EARLY. If in the quest for outstanding performance. line, while anabolic steroids and human growth Trek, “resistance is futile.” Here the skeptic can Before these blood testing efforts reach your sport, USADA will work with about 1/2 of 1% of all of the blood in your body. Many athletes who in the 2nd Quarter 2008 athlete packet. Doping Control Officers will also you are one of the first 10 athletes to submit Equipment improves—fiberglass poles replace hormone are prohibited. The line must be drawn note that enforcing a ban on doping is difficult. your sport’s National Governing Body to help you get the information that you wooden ones in the pole vault. Training, also, with great care, and there will always be cases It is. The question for us becomes, given that we have blood tested that have gone on to great successes, even distribute the cards to athletes selected for OOC Testing in case you an online quarterly ALF, we’ll send you a free need to know what to expect. Until then, here are the basics: is transformed by science. In the end, what that challenge it; those cases should prompt a perfection is unachievable in doping control or, winning championships. missed it in your packet. USADA water bottle. What is EARLY? ALFs • You can do this! If you have survived a blood draw at your doctor’s difference does it make that a cyclist’s endurance thoughtful reappraisal of precisely where to draw for that matter, any other important social policy, A big thanks to all athletes for complying with your whereabouts will be available at 12:01 a.m. Mountain office before, you will be able to survive this experience too. Why? • Can I refuse a blood test? As an athlete, you have the responsibility improves through power meters and interval the line—but difficult cases are never reasons to what level of control is possible and worth the requirements. We wish good luck to all athletes preparing for the Beijing Standard Time on the first day of the month Because, by and large, the experiences will be similar…except that to comply with all doping control procedures. Just like a urine test, training, or through injections of EPO? Aren’t they abandon line-drawing altogether. trouble? Some components of a serious and 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games! PRIOR to the actual deadline dates for each the location will vary. Additionally the needles used will not be any refusal of a blood test will result in an anti-doping rule violation. all just ways of going faster longer? Argument 3: significant doping control system, such as sample If you are in the OOC testing pool and did not receive a card, please quarter’s ALF. Water bottles were sent to different from those used at your doctor’s office. Please look for additional information on USADA’s expanded blood Suppose someone showed up to compete “You’ll put your eye out!” collection and lab protocols, have long been contact Kelli Feltmann ([email protected]; 719-785-2023) at USADA. the first 10 athletes who filed their ALFs on testing efforts in the future. Before blood testing reaches your sport, know in the New York Marathon. She was properly A detour into paternalism in place. But other pieces have been weak or • When a DCO notifies you of a blood sample collection, he or she February 1, 2008. registered and equipped except for one thing—her Why, though, should we draw the line this lacking until recent years, among them a genuine that USADA, along with your NGB, will do all that we can to communicate will be accompanied by a Blood Collection Officer (BCO). A BCO is a shoes had wheels on the bottom. She was side of performance enhancing drugs? The commitment from the leadership of sport, a good everything you will need to know regarding blood testing. 2. Online or Hard-Copy Submissions – BE ON certified phlebotomist (i.e., someone who is trained to draw blood) wearing roller blades. Not surprisingly, she most common answer is that athletes might measure of independence for those entrusted TIME. When you submit each quarter’s ALF and is someone who very likely works as a medical professional. The covers the 26-plus miles faster than everyone hurt themselves if they use steroids, EPO, or with doping control, and funds to support the by the specified deadline (December 1st, BCO will draw the blood, with the DCO overseeing the process and using running shoes. Does she deserve to be other drugs. There are two problems with this research necessary to keep up with—or get ahead March 1st, June 1st, and September 1st) via handling the paperwork. crowned as the winner? Virtually everyone I’ve argument, which philosophers call “paternalism.” of—doping advocates. The creation of WADA and the online system or hard-copy, you will be entered into a random asked this question says no, she does not. Not Roughly, paternalism is doing something to or other national anti-doping agencies, and the • Once the DCO and BCO arrive, you will be asked to select a Blood drawing for a free USADA water bottle. Fifteen athletes will be all means for going faster in the marathon are for another person in order to promote their reinvigoration of a number of sports governing Collection Kit. The DCO will then ask you to remain seated for 30 selected at random from this group of submissions. Please see equal. Some, like roller blades—and perhaps EPO, good, but without regard to their own desires or bodies give reason to hope that resistance, in this minutes to allow your blood to stabilize. After these 30 minutes, you www.usada.org/ae for terms and conditions. anabolic steroids, and other drugs—undermine preferences. Paternalism is an essential part of instance, may not be so futile. the meaning of the sport. If you agree that good parenting (I wouldn’t allow my three-year Sports Step-Up to Help Level the Playing Field our imaginary roller blading marathoner has old grandchildren Tess and Cooper to play in the continued on page 6 not earned the champion’s crown, then you street even if they wanted to. They’re too young understand that not all ways of improving to appreciate the risks, I know better, and I am The United States Anti-Doping Agency has funds and include other entities (both sport and • New methods to more cost effectively performance are the same. responsible for their well-being). So paternalism joined the United States Olympic Committee non-sport) as well. detect and deter the use of banned and Argument 2: would support limiting the freedom of adolescent (USOC), Major League Baseball (MLB) and the “From the very outset of our organization, illegal substances at every level of sport; The line-drawing problem athletes to take severe risks; but its legitimacy National Football League (NFL) in the formation of USADA has recognized the importance of credible • Identification and detection of designer The doping skeptic may concede that point fades as athletes become adults. a landmark collaborative which has the potential scientific research to protect clean sport and substances; but insist that it’s impossible to draw a line that is The second problem with the “you’ll put your to significantly increase the funding available for those who compete with integrity,” USADA CEO • The consequences of doping, from both a IT'S A OUT THERE not hopelessly, fatally arbitrary. Some varieties of eye out!” argument is that in many sports we research in the effort to further curtail the use of Travis T. Tygart said. “We welcome and greatly medical and ethical perspective, and arbitrariness are morally abhorrent, for example encourage and reward athletes for taking risks. punishing one person and rewarding another Alpine ski racers careen down steep slopes banned and illegal substances in sport. appreciate the shared commitment of the USOC, • The further development of a widely- One of the tricks supplement companies use is to claim their product is for survival going on all around you. Plants and insects are constantly when they’ve done exactly the same thing. Sport at 100 kilometers an hour, and road cyclists The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) the NFL and MLB, and that of others who are available cost-effective test to detect 100% Natural. They know that when consumers see this claim, many will competing against each other. The winners live, the losers aren’t so lucky. is constantly drawing lines, but they don’t seem descend long hills at comparable speeds. They will, for the first time ever, combine the resources involved in this important endeavor.” Human Growth Hormone (HGH). assume the product is safe. Most of the time, the companies’ claims that The plants defend themselves by producing substances that are deadly to to be arbitrary in quite the same indefensible are likely to find the tender concern that they and expertise of many of the nation’s leading USOC Chairman Peter Ueberroth, who was The PCC will consist of a Board of Governors, their products are 100% Natural are 100% accurate – but here’s the catch: predatory insects. When dietary supplement companies use these plants in sports entities to underwrite doping research. instrumental in creating the collaborative, said on which each of the four founding members way. Basketball permits five players to a side. might hurt themselves if they take steroids or EPO 100% Natural provides absolutely NO guarantee of a product’s safety! their products, these toxic substances can have similar effects on human Why draw the line at five? Why not four or six? As a tad hypocritical. The initial funding partners have collectively that “it is vital that the major sports organizations will have one member, and a Scientific Research In many cases, these all natural products can be very dangerous to the consumers, too. a youth I played five-on-five, but also two-on-two, In research done at The Hastings Center nearly committed to contribute more than $10 million in America work to combat a problem which, if Advisory Board consisting of universally who said it? consumer. For example, cashew nuts may be considered all natural; however, Rather than relying on the slick advertisements from the company selling even one-on-one. Of course, the game changes thirty years ago, and in the decades since, I have over the course of the next four years. Also left unchecked, has the potential to destroy the recognized and scientifically-qualified experts the tree (anacardium occidentale) producing the cashew nut belongs to the product you, as a consumer, have the responsibility to educate yourself. along with the number of players. But still, why spoken with many elite athletes. Overwhelmingly, participating and contributing financially are the value and integrity of sport. Ultimately, we are in which will review grant requests, make "It's not whether you get knocked down; the same plant family as poison ivy and poison oak and coats the nut with Research reliable sources of information that can point out the many five? Imagine that we take the skeptic’s criticism they did not see using performance enhancing it's whether you get back up." National Basketball Association (NBA), National a battle to protect and preserve the benefits of recommendations to the Board of Governors and a toxic oily substance. The toxin is only removed during processing and substances that are known to be included in supplements and that may, in to heart. Yes, five is an arbitrary place to draw drugs as a glorious expression of their personal Hockey League (NHL) and the Professional sports participation for the youth or our country.” provide oversight regarding the results of the roasting to allow the safe sale and use of cashews. fact, damage your health. the line, like every other particular number. So liberty. Most athletes are merely trying to level Golfers’ Association of America (PGA). The Priorities for the collaborative will include research projects. Taking a walk through a meadow or a field filled with green plants and we’ll let teams put as many players as they want a playing field tilted against them because, they founding partners will seek to raise additional underwriting research that addresses: By Dr. Richard L. Hilderbrand, on the court. The elegance, speed, passing and fear, their competitors are gaining an advantage flowers can feel peaceful to the untrained eye. However, there is a battle (Answer on back page) USADA Science Director grace of basketball would collapse under the by taking drugs. Drug use by some athletes, in Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 SPIRIT OF SPORT VOLUME 8 / ISSUE 2 In Search of the Spirit of Sport By Thomas H. Murray, PhD Blood Testing: The Basics President, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY USA The struggle for the future, and perhaps the soul, weight of massive numbers and brute force as other words, creates enormous coercive pressure It can happen at a variety of places: at your house, your training location, will be asked to make your arm available, and you’ll feel a little stick. QUICK HITTERS of sport is an ongoing conflict. The arguments teams put 30, 40 or more players on the floor. It on other athletes to also use drugs merely to or at an event. A Doping Control Officer (DCO) contacts you with a request The blood draw itself will only take a few minutes, followed by the pressed by the opponents of doping control might resemble an endless rugby scrum, only on keep up. Successful doping control levels the for a sample. This is a common experience for athletes familiar with USADA’s testing paperwork, similar to that used for a urine sample collection. A QUICK LOOK AT THE LATEST ANTI-DOPING INFORMATION FOR ATHLETES have not changed much at all in the quarter- hardwood not grass. playing field so that athletes can compete fairly testing procedures. By now, you know the standard routine, but what if the • The BCO will assess the most suitable puncture site, choosing the century since I began my research into the ethics Drawing lines is not only permissible, it is without drugs. So, even if paternalism weakens DCO is asking for more than just urine? What if he or she is asking for a blood less-dominant arm and a location that is unlikely to adversely affect of performance enhancement in sport. Five essential for preserving the meaning of each as athletes become adults, protecting athletes arguments come up repeatedly in one variation sport and of sport in general. Arbitrariness is not from the coercive power of drugs in sport remains sample? your performance. You may also request a specific arm. The most Out-Of-Competition News or another. Each of them seems plausible at first, a fatal flaw when line-drawing is necessary in this a solid ethical justification for effective doping There is a more likely chance of this occurring in the near future traditional site for blood draws is the inside of the elbow. Your DCO or but each one has serious flaws. way, and when a reasonable case can be made control. as USADA continues expanding its blood testing efforts through Out- BCO can explain your options in detail, but for those athletes that use Going Somewhere? Take USADA with YOU! Early Birds Get the Bottle Argument 1: for drawing the line in this particular place—even Argument 4: “Resistance is futile” of-Competition and pre-Competition Testing. Blood testing serves a their arms a lot, such as weightlifters, wrestlers, or field throwers, the Have you ever left for a competition and suddenly thought, “I forgot To recognize you for submitting your quarterly Athlete Location Forms “It’s all the same” if another nearby spot would have been equally Notice that I said effective doping control— very important role in USADA’s continued fight against doping in sport. back of the hand may be the better option. to update USADA!” Now USADA has a convienent resource to help (ALF), USADA is offering chances to win a great water bottle. The first argument against doping control defensible. So protein supplements and special which brings up the fourth objection: that, in the Specifically, blood testing enhances our ability to detect hormone abuse, • The amount of blood that will be drawn will not affect your remind you to update your whereabouts. This Resource Key Chain card There are two ways that you can be eligible to win: begins by noting that sport is constantly evolving diets may fall on the acceptable side of the words of the Borg from the television series Star including the use of human growth hormone (hGH). performance, and is equivalent to just over two tablespoons – this is was mailed to all athletes in the Out-of-Competition (OOC) Testing Pool 1. Early Online Submissions – Submit EARLY. If in the quest for outstanding performance. line, while anabolic steroids and human growth Trek, “resistance is futile.” Here the skeptic can Before these blood testing efforts reach your sport, USADA will work with about 1/2 of 1% of all of the blood in your body. Many athletes who in the 2nd Quarter 2008 athlete packet. Doping Control Officers will also you are one of the first 10 athletes to submit Equipment improves—fiberglass poles replace hormone are prohibited. The line must be drawn note that enforcing a ban on doping is difficult. your sport’s National Governing Body to help you get the information that you wooden ones in the pole vault. Training, also, with great care, and there will always be cases It is. The question for us becomes, given that we have blood tested that have gone on to great successes, even distribute the cards to athletes selected for OOC Testing in case you an online quarterly ALF, we’ll send you a free need to know what to expect. Until then, here are the basics: is transformed by science. In the end, what that challenge it; those cases should prompt a perfection is unachievable in doping control or, winning championships. missed it in your packet. USADA water bottle. What is EARLY? ALFs • You can do this! If you have survived a blood draw at your doctor’s difference does it make that a cyclist’s endurance thoughtful reappraisal of precisely where to draw for that matter, any other important social policy, A big thanks to all athletes for complying with your whereabouts will be available at 12:01 a.m. Mountain office before, you will be able to survive this experience too. Why? • Can I refuse a blood test? As an athlete, you have the responsibility improves through power meters and interval the line—but difficult cases are never reasons to what level of control is possible and worth the requirements. We wish good luck to all athletes preparing for the Beijing Standard Time on the first day of the month Because, by and large, the experiences will be similar…except that to comply with all doping control procedures. Just like a urine test, training, or through injections of EPO? Aren’t they abandon line-drawing altogether. trouble? Some components of a serious and 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games! PRIOR to the actual deadline dates for each the location will vary. Additionally the needles used will not be any refusal of a blood test will result in an anti-doping rule violation. all just ways of going faster longer? Argument 3: significant doping control system, such as sample If you are in the OOC testing pool and did not receive a card, please quarter’s ALF. Water bottles were sent to different from those used at your doctor’s office. Please look for additional information on USADA’s expanded blood Suppose someone showed up to compete “You’ll put your eye out!” collection and lab protocols, have long been contact Kelli Feltmann ([email protected]; 719-785-2023) at USADA. the first 10 athletes who filed their ALFs on testing efforts in the future. Before blood testing reaches your sport, know in the New York Marathon. She was properly A detour into paternalism in place. But other pieces have been weak or • When a DCO notifies you of a blood sample collection, he or she February 1, 2008. registered and equipped except for one thing—her Why, though, should we draw the line this lacking until recent years, among them a genuine that USADA, along with your NGB, will do all that we can to communicate will be accompanied by a Blood Collection Officer (BCO). A BCO is a shoes had wheels on the bottom. She was side of performance enhancing drugs? The commitment from the leadership of sport, a good everything you will need to know regarding blood testing. 2. Online or Hard-Copy Submissions – BE ON certified phlebotomist (i.e., someone who is trained to draw blood) wearing roller blades. Not surprisingly, she most common answer is that athletes might measure of independence for those entrusted TIME. When you submit each quarter’s ALF and is someone who very likely works as a medical professional. The covers the 26-plus miles faster than everyone hurt themselves if they use steroids, EPO, or with doping control, and funds to support the by the specified deadline (December 1st, BCO will draw the blood, with the DCO overseeing the process and using running shoes. Does she deserve to be other drugs. There are two problems with this research necessary to keep up with—or get ahead March 1st, June 1st, and September 1st) via handling the paperwork. crowned as the winner? Virtually everyone I’ve argument, which philosophers call “paternalism.” of—doping advocates. The creation of WADA and the online system or hard-copy, you will be entered into a random asked this question says no, she does not. Not Roughly, paternalism is doing something to or other national anti-doping agencies, and the • Once the DCO and BCO arrive, you will be asked to select a Blood drawing for a free USADA water bottle. Fifteen athletes will be all means for going faster in the marathon are for another person in order to promote their reinvigoration of a number of sports governing Collection Kit. The DCO will then ask you to remain seated for 30 selected at random from this group of submissions. Please see equal. Some, like roller blades—and perhaps EPO, good, but without regard to their own desires or bodies give reason to hope that resistance, in this minutes to allow your blood to stabilize. After these 30 minutes, you www.usada.org/ae for terms and conditions. anabolic steroids, and other drugs—undermine preferences. Paternalism is an essential part of instance, may not be so futile. the meaning of the sport. If you agree that good parenting (I wouldn’t allow my three-year Sports Step-Up to Help Level the Playing Field our imaginary roller blading marathoner has old grandchildren Tess and Cooper to play in the continued on page 6 not earned the champion’s crown, then you street even if they wanted to. They’re too young understand that not all ways of improving to appreciate the risks, I know better, and I am The United States Anti-Doping Agency has funds and include other entities (both sport and • New methods to more cost effectively performance are the same. responsible for their well-being). So paternalism joined the United States Olympic Committee non-sport) as well. detect and deter the use of banned and Argument 2: would support limiting the freedom of adolescent (USOC), Major League Baseball (MLB) and the “From the very outset of our organization, illegal substances at every level of sport; The line-drawing problem athletes to take severe risks; but its legitimacy National Football League (NFL) in the formation of USADA has recognized the importance of credible • Identification and detection of designer The doping skeptic may concede that point fades as athletes become adults. a landmark collaborative which has the potential scientific research to protect clean sport and substances; but insist that it’s impossible to draw a line that is The second problem with the “you’ll put your to significantly increase the funding available for those who compete with integrity,” USADA CEO • The consequences of doping, from both a IT'S A OUT THERE not hopelessly, fatally arbitrary. Some varieties of eye out!” argument is that in many sports we research in the effort to further curtail the use of Travis T. Tygart said. “We welcome and greatly medical and ethical perspective, and arbitrariness are morally abhorrent, for example encourage and reward athletes for taking risks. punishing one person and rewarding another Alpine ski racers careen down steep slopes banned and illegal substances in sport. appreciate the shared commitment of the USOC, • The further development of a widely- One of the tricks supplement companies use is to claim their product is for survival going on all around you. Plants and insects are constantly when they’ve done exactly the same thing. Sport at 100 kilometers an hour, and road cyclists The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) the NFL and MLB, and that of others who are available cost-effective test to detect 100% Natural. They know that when consumers see this claim, many will competing against each other. The winners live, the losers aren’t so lucky. is constantly drawing lines, but they don’t seem descend long hills at comparable speeds. They will, for the first time ever, combine the resources involved in this important endeavor.” Human Growth Hormone (HGH). assume the product is safe. Most of the time, the companies’ claims that The plants defend themselves by producing substances that are deadly to to be arbitrary in quite the same indefensible are likely to find the tender concern that they and expertise of many of the nation’s leading USOC Chairman Peter Ueberroth, who was The PCC will consist of a Board of Governors, their products are 100% Natural are 100% accurate – but here’s the catch: predatory insects. When dietary supplement companies use these plants in sports entities to underwrite doping research. instrumental in creating the collaborative, said on which each of the four founding members way. Basketball permits five players to a side. might hurt themselves if they take steroids or EPO 100% Natural provides absolutely NO guarantee of a product’s safety! their products, these toxic substances can have similar effects on human Why draw the line at five? Why not four or six? As a tad hypocritical. The initial funding partners have collectively that “it is vital that the major sports organizations will have one member, and a Scientific Research In many cases, these all natural products can be very dangerous to the consumers, too. a youth I played five-on-five, but also two-on-two, In research done at The Hastings Center nearly committed to contribute more than $10 million in America work to combat a problem which, if Advisory Board consisting of universally who said it? consumer. For example, cashew nuts may be considered all natural; however, Rather than relying on the slick advertisements from the company selling even one-on-one. Of course, the game changes thirty years ago, and in the decades since, I have over the course of the next four years. Also left unchecked, has the potential to destroy the recognized and scientifically-qualified experts the tree (anacardium occidentale) producing the cashew nut belongs to the product you, as a consumer, have the responsibility to educate yourself. along with the number of players. But still, why spoken with many elite athletes. Overwhelmingly, participating and contributing financially are the value and integrity of sport. Ultimately, we are in which will review grant requests, make "It's not whether you get knocked down; the same plant family as poison ivy and poison oak and coats the nut with Research reliable sources of information that can point out the many five? Imagine that we take the skeptic’s criticism they did not see using performance enhancing it's whether you get back up." National Basketball Association (NBA), National a battle to protect and preserve the benefits of recommendations to the Board of Governors and a toxic oily substance. The toxin is only removed during processing and substances that are known to be included in supplements and that may, in to heart. Yes, five is an arbitrary place to draw drugs as a glorious expression of their personal Hockey League (NHL) and the Professional sports participation for the youth or our country.” provide oversight regarding the results of the roasting to allow the safe sale and use of cashews. fact, damage your health. the line, like every other particular number. So liberty. Most athletes are merely trying to level Golfers’ Association of America (PGA). The Priorities for the collaborative will include research projects. Taking a walk through a meadow or a field filled with green plants and we’ll let teams put as many players as they want a playing field tilted against them because, they founding partners will seek to raise additional underwriting research that addresses: By Dr. Richard L. Hilderbrand, on the court. The elegance, speed, passing and fear, their competitors are gaining an advantage flowers can feel peaceful to the untrained eye. However, there is a battle (Answer on back page) USADA Science Director grace of basketball would collapse under the by taking drugs. Drug use by some athletes, in Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 SPIRIT OF SPORT VOLUME 8 / ISSUE 2 In Search of the Spirit of Sport By Thomas H. Murray, PhD Blood Testing: The Basics President, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY USA The struggle for the future, and perhaps the soul, weight of massive numbers and brute force as other words, creates enormous coercive pressure It can happen at a variety of places: at your house, your training location, will be asked to make your arm available, and you’ll feel a little stick. QUICK HITTERS of sport is an ongoing conflict. The arguments teams put 30, 40 or more players on the floor. It on other athletes to also use drugs merely to or at an event. A Doping Control Officer (DCO) contacts you with a request The blood draw itself will only take a few minutes, followed by the pressed by the opponents of doping control might resemble an endless rugby scrum, only on keep up. Successful doping control levels the for a sample. This is a common experience for athletes familiar with USADA’s testing paperwork, similar to that used for a urine sample collection. A QUICK LOOK AT THE LATEST ANTI-DOPING INFORMATION FOR ATHLETES have not changed much at all in the quarter- hardwood not grass. playing field so that athletes can compete fairly testing procedures. By now, you know the standard routine, but what if the • The BCO will assess the most suitable puncture site, choosing the century since I began my research into the ethics Drawing lines is not only permissible, it is without drugs. So, even if paternalism weakens DCO is asking for more than just urine? What if he or she is asking for a blood less-dominant arm and a location that is unlikely to adversely affect of performance enhancement in sport. Five essential for preserving the meaning of each as athletes become adults, protecting athletes arguments come up repeatedly in one variation sport and of sport in general. Arbitrariness is not from the coercive power of drugs in sport remains sample? your performance. You may also request a specific arm. The most Out-Of-Competition News or another. Each of them seems plausible at first, a fatal flaw when line-drawing is necessary in this a solid ethical justification for effective doping There is a more likely chance of this occurring in the near future traditional site for blood draws is the inside of the elbow. Your DCO or but each one has serious flaws. way, and when a reasonable case can be made control. as USADA continues expanding its blood testing efforts through Out- BCO can explain your options in detail, but for those athletes that use Going Somewhere? Take USADA with YOU! Early Birds Get the Bottle Argument 1: for drawing the line in this particular place—even Argument 4: “Resistance is futile” of-Competition and pre-Competition Testing. Blood testing serves a their arms a lot, such as weightlifters, wrestlers, or field throwers, the Have you ever left for a competition and suddenly thought, “I forgot To recognize you for submitting your quarterly Athlete Location Forms “It’s all the same” if another nearby spot would have been equally Notice that I said effective doping control— very important role in USADA’s continued fight against doping in sport. back of the hand may be the better option. to update USADA!” Now USADA has a convienent resource to help (ALF), USADA is offering chances to win a great water bottle. The first argument against doping control defensible. So protein supplements and special which brings up the fourth objection: that, in the Specifically, blood testing enhances our ability to detect hormone abuse, • The amount of blood that will be drawn will not affect your remind you to update your whereabouts. This Resource Key Chain card There are two ways that you can be eligible to win: begins by noting that sport is constantly evolving diets may fall on the acceptable side of the words of the Borg from the television series Star including the use of human growth hormone (hGH). performance, and is equivalent to just over two tablespoons – this is was mailed to all athletes in the Out-of-Competition (OOC) Testing Pool 1. Early Online Submissions – Submit EARLY. If in the quest for outstanding performance. line, while anabolic steroids and human growth Trek, “resistance is futile.” Here the skeptic can Before these blood testing efforts reach your sport, USADA will work with about 1/2 of 1% of all of the blood in your body. Many athletes who in the 2nd Quarter 2008 athlete packet. Doping Control Officers will also you are one of the first 10 athletes to submit Equipment improves—fiberglass poles replace hormone are prohibited. The line must be drawn note that enforcing a ban on doping is difficult. your sport’s National Governing Body to help you get the information that you wooden ones in the pole vault. Training, also, with great care, and there will always be cases It is. The question for us becomes, given that we have blood tested that have gone on to great successes, even distribute the cards to athletes selected for OOC Testing in case you an online quarterly ALF, we’ll send you a free need to know what to expect. Until then, here are the basics: is transformed by science. In the end, what that challenge it; those cases should prompt a perfection is unachievable in doping control or, winning championships. missed it in your packet. USADA water bottle. What is EARLY? ALFs • You can do this! If you have survived a blood draw at your doctor’s difference does it make that a cyclist’s endurance thoughtful reappraisal of precisely where to draw for that matter, any other important social policy, A big thanks to all athletes for complying with your whereabouts will be available at 12:01 a.m. Mountain office before, you will be able to survive this experience too. Why? • Can I refuse a blood test? As an athlete, you have the responsibility improves through power meters and interval the line—but difficult cases are never reasons to what level of control is possible and worth the requirements. We wish good luck to all athletes preparing for the Beijing Standard Time on the first day of the month Because, by and large, the experiences will be similar…except that to comply with all doping control procedures. Just like a urine test, training, or through injections of EPO? Aren’t they abandon line-drawing altogether. trouble? Some components of a serious and 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games! PRIOR to the actual deadline dates for each the location will vary. Additionally the needles used will not be any refusal of a blood test will result in an anti-doping rule violation. all just ways of going faster longer? Argument 3: significant doping control system, such as sample If you are in the OOC testing pool and did not receive a card, please quarter’s ALF. Water bottles were sent to different from those used at your doctor’s office. Please look for additional information on USADA’s expanded blood Suppose someone showed up to compete “You’ll put your eye out!” collection and lab protocols, have long been contact Kelli Feltmann ([email protected]; 719-785-2023) at USADA. the first 10 athletes who filed their ALFs on testing efforts in the future. Before blood testing reaches your sport, know in the New York Marathon. She was properly A detour into paternalism in place. But other pieces have been weak or • When a DCO notifies you of a blood sample collection, he or she February 1, 2008. registered and equipped except for one thing—her Why, though, should we draw the line this lacking until recent years, among them a genuine that USADA, along with your NGB, will do all that we can to communicate will be accompanied by a Blood Collection Officer (BCO). A BCO is a shoes had wheels on the bottom. She was side of performance enhancing drugs? The commitment from the leadership of sport, a good everything you will need to know regarding blood testing. 2. Online or Hard-Copy Submissions – BE ON certified phlebotomist (i.e., someone who is trained to draw blood) wearing roller blades. Not surprisingly, she most common answer is that athletes might measure of independence for those entrusted TIME. When you submit each quarter’s ALF and is someone who very likely works as a medical professional. The covers the 26-plus miles faster than everyone hurt themselves if they use steroids, EPO, or with doping control, and funds to support the by the specified deadline (December 1st, BCO will draw the blood, with the DCO overseeing the process and using running shoes. Does she deserve to be other drugs. There are two problems with this research necessary to keep up with—or get ahead March 1st, June 1st, and September 1st) via handling the paperwork. crowned as the winner? Virtually everyone I’ve argument, which philosophers call “paternalism.” of—doping advocates. The creation of WADA and the online system or hard-copy, you will be entered into a random asked this question says no, she does not. Not Roughly, paternalism is doing something to or other national anti-doping agencies, and the • Once the DCO and BCO arrive, you will be asked to select a Blood drawing for a free USADA water bottle. Fifteen athletes will be all means for going faster in the marathon are for another person in order to promote their reinvigoration of a number of sports governing Collection Kit. The DCO will then ask you to remain seated for 30 selected at random from this group of submissions. Please see equal. Some, like roller blades—and perhaps EPO, good, but without regard to their own desires or bodies give reason to hope that resistance, in this minutes to allow your blood to stabilize. After these 30 minutes, you www.usada.org/ae for terms and conditions. anabolic steroids, and other drugs—undermine preferences. Paternalism is an essential part of instance, may not be so futile. the meaning of the sport. If you agree that good parenting (I wouldn’t allow my three-year Sports Step-Up to Help Level the Playing Field our imaginary roller blading marathoner has old grandchildren Tess and Cooper to play in the continued on page 6 not earned the champion’s crown, then you street even if they wanted to. They’re too young understand that not all ways of improving to appreciate the risks, I know better, and I am The United States Anti-Doping Agency has funds and include other entities (both sport and • New methods to more cost effectively performance are the same. responsible for their well-being). So paternalism joined the United States Olympic Committee non-sport) as well. detect and deter the use of banned and Argument 2: would support limiting the freedom of adolescent (USOC), Major League Baseball (MLB) and the “From the very outset of our organization, illegal substances at every level of sport; The line-drawing problem athletes to take severe risks; but its legitimacy National Football League (NFL) in the formation of USADA has recognized the importance of credible • Identification and detection of designer The doping skeptic may concede that point fades as athletes become adults. a landmark collaborative which has the potential scientific research to protect clean sport and substances; but insist that it’s impossible to draw a line that is The second problem with the “you’ll put your to significantly increase the funding available for those who compete with integrity,” USADA CEO • The consequences of doping, from both a IT'S A OUT THERE not hopelessly, fatally arbitrary. Some varieties of eye out!” argument is that in many sports we research in the effort to further curtail the use of Travis T. Tygart said. “We welcome and greatly medical and ethical perspective, and arbitrariness are morally abhorrent, for example encourage and reward athletes for taking risks. punishing one person and rewarding another Alpine ski racers careen down steep slopes banned and illegal substances in sport. appreciate the shared commitment of the USOC, • The further development of a widely- One of the tricks supplement companies use is to claim their product is for survival going on all around you. Plants and insects are constantly when they’ve done exactly the same thing. Sport at 100 kilometers an hour, and road cyclists The Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) the NFL and MLB, and that of others who are available cost-effective test to detect 100% Natural. They know that when consumers see this claim, many will competing against each other. The winners live, the losers aren’t so lucky. is constantly drawing lines, but they don’t seem descend long hills at comparable speeds. They will, for the first time ever, combine the resources involved in this important endeavor.” Human Growth Hormone (HGH). assume the product is safe. Most of the time, the companies’ claims that The plants defend themselves by producing substances that are deadly to to be arbitrary in quite the same indefensible are likely to find the tender concern that they and expertise of many of the nation’s leading USOC Chairman Peter Ueberroth, who was The PCC will consist of a Board of Governors, their products are 100% Natural are 100% accurate – but here’s the catch: predatory insects. When dietary supplement companies use these plants in sports entities to underwrite doping research. instrumental in creating the collaborative, said on which each of the four founding members way. Basketball permits five players to a side. might hurt themselves if they take steroids or EPO 100% Natural provides absolutely NO guarantee of a product’s safety! their products, these toxic substances can have similar effects on human Why draw the line at five? Why not four or six? As a tad hypocritical. The initial funding partners have collectively that “it is vital that the major sports organizations will have one member, and a Scientific Research In many cases, these all natural products can be very dangerous to the consumers, too. a youth I played five-on-five, but also two-on-two, In research done at The Hastings Center nearly committed to contribute more than $10 million in America work to combat a problem which, if Advisory Board consisting of universally who said it? consumer. For example, cashew nuts may be considered all natural; however, Rather than relying on the slick advertisements from the company selling even one-on-one. Of course, the game changes thirty years ago, and in the decades since, I have over the course of the next four years. Also left unchecked, has the potential to destroy the recognized and scientifically-qualified experts the tree (anacardium occidentale) producing the cashew nut belongs to the product you, as a consumer, have the responsibility to educate yourself. along with the number of players. But still, why spoken with many elite athletes. Overwhelmingly, participating and contributing financially are the value and integrity of sport. Ultimately, we are in which will review grant requests, make "It's not whether you get knocked down; the same plant family as poison ivy and poison oak and coats the nut with Research reliable sources of information that can point out the many five? Imagine that we take the skeptic’s criticism they did not see using performance enhancing it's whether you get back up." National Basketball Association (NBA), National a battle to protect and preserve the benefits of recommendations to the Board of Governors and a toxic oily substance. The toxin is only removed during processing and substances that are known to be included in supplements and that may, in to heart. Yes, five is an arbitrary place to draw drugs as a glorious expression of their personal Hockey League (NHL) and the Professional sports participation for the youth or our country.” provide oversight regarding the results of the roasting to allow the safe sale and use of cashews. fact, damage your health. the line, like every other particular number. So liberty. Most athletes are merely trying to level Golfers’ Association of America (PGA). The Priorities for the collaborative will include research projects. Taking a walk through a meadow or a field filled with green plants and we’ll let teams put as many players as they want a playing field tilted against them because, they founding partners will seek to raise additional underwriting research that addresses: By Dr. Richard L. Hilderbrand, on the court. The elegance, speed, passing and fear, their competitors are gaining an advantage flowers can feel peaceful to the untrained eye. However, there is a battle (Answer on back page) USADA Science Director grace of basketball would collapse under the by taking drugs. Drug use by some athletes, in Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 TM