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- From: conway@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Steve Conway)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: mysterious runners death in Sweden
- Message-ID: <CONWAY.92Nov19134730@watt.cstr.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:47:30 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
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- In-Reply-To: tordm@vand's message of 18 Nov 92 11:09:12 GMT
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- >>On 18 Nov 92 11:09:12 GMT, tordm@vand (Tord G.M. Malmgren) said:
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- > thanks! now, could there be any connection like taking steroids and doing
- > heart-stressing training like interval, which orienteering is, could lead
- > to some problems with your heart like it growing too much or getting "watery"?
- > ("watery" is a term the local bobby-builders use at the gym I go to, to
- > describe how their muscles get when they take too many steroids)
- > I can understand there be no way to find out if they took steroids, but
- > I'm curious as to whether it's possible at all...
-
- I would doubt this very strongly. Orienteering has a reputation as a
- very "clean" sport, backed up by a very stringent drugs program (going
- on the experiences of the international orienteers I know). I can't
- believe that if there was a large group of steroid users in the sport
- that there would have been no hint of it.
-
- I don't think steroid use would even make much sense to an orienteer.
- EPO would be of more benefit, say.
-
- Finall, heart muscle is of a different type to skeletal muscle. I
- don't know whether the effects of steroids are the same for the two
- muscle types.
-
- Training while suffering from infection seems the most likely cause at
- present. This isn't just an orienteering problem - athletes in other
- sports have died in similar ways. Orienteering has just been hit hard
- by it, and has reacted in a newsworthy manner.
-
- Steve.
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