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Every two years as the Olympic Games begin, we hear about athletes using or at least being tested for performance-enhancing drugs. Sometimes, competitors raise the question when one athlete does particularly well. Other times, tests catch athletes with drugs in their systems.
The practice of using artificial substances or methods to enhance athletic performance is called doping. Doping has become such a great concern that the United States formed an Anti-Doping Agency.
Right now, it is almost a certainty that any 14-year-old aspiring athlete anywhere in the world who wants to excel in an endurance or strength sport is aware that the eventual use of illegal, performance enhancing drugs is a strong possibility. The option not to use the drugs will put them at a competitive disadvantage. Their parents most likely do not know this, but the kids do. That is why retired General Barry McCaffrey, Frank Marshall and I, along with our counterparts from around the world, have become participants in a mission to finally put an end to this.
General McCaffrey is the White House Drug Czar. He has been working with his cabinet level counterparts from the major nations since early 1999 to take drug testing away from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). With the formation of the new World Anti Doping Agency, this task is almost complete.
Frank Marshall's most recent successful Hollywood production is The Sixth Sense. He is a former track athlete, loves the sport, and headed up the public sector task force that recommended U.S drug testing in all Olympic sports be taken away from the United States Olympic Committee, and given to the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA).
I was appointed to the board of directors of this new, truly independent agency at the behest of McCaffrey. At our first meeting in Chicago in March of this year, I went out for a noon run while the rest of the board stayed in for a catered lunch. I returned to the news that I would be chairman.
The USADA will take over all testing in all Olympic sports in the United States on October 2, 2000. Any potential Olympic athlete physically in the United States is subject to testing. The goal is to protect the clean athletes, educate those coming up through the ranks and actually try to catch the cheaters. It is my belief that the IOC has always viewed the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs as a public relations problem, not a drug epidemic.
Here is a brief, and by no means complete, list of facts that illustrate my point of view:
1. Human Growth Hormone (HgH) has been available in synthetic form since 1982. It produces the same anabolic effect as steroids, but is only detectable through blood testing. Instead of funding research to detect its use, the IOC increased their urine testing budget and held press conferences. There is still no blood test for HgH on line, though one is at hand and the USADA will use it as soon as possible. This coincides with the IOC getting out of drug testing.
2. Documents showing positive tests at the 1984 Games were shredded by the head of the IOC drug committee "by mistake." He has admitted to this.
3. This same man "lost" 18 "B" samples from his hotel room safe at the Atlanta Games in 1996. Samples are divided into "A" and "B" vials at the time of gathering. If the "A" sample shows positive, the "B" sample is tested to confirm. These samples were to be tested for confirmation of "A" positives. He continues to maintain they were stolen.
4. EPO (Erythropoetin) is a synthetic hormone that stimulates red cell production in bone marrow. For those of you who remember "blood doping" this is blood doping in a syringe. Four-to-10 percent increases in performance have been documented. It has been available since 1988 and the IOC never made much effort to develop a test. After McCaffrey showed up at the IOC "Drug Summit" in February of 1999, the IOC stopped funding their internal research on EPO detection and then held a press conference announcing their test would "most likely" not be ready by the Sydney Games.
5. Three years ago, the documentary evidence was uncovered showing that the entire East German Olympic program from 1972-1988 revolved around drug use. At the IOC "Drug Summit" in February of 1999, a four year statute of limitations on cheating was passed. So, when the Sydney Games begin all the cheaters from the 1996 Games who might be discovered in the future are home free.
So, will every strength and endurance performance at the Sydney Games be suspect? Draw your own conclusion. The athletes are not dumb, they know what messages have been sent in the past. I and others are pushing to have urine and blood samples from all medal winners frozen and be subject to future testing as the technology catches up. No statute of limitations. Physically, it can be done, but my guess is the IOC will hold another press conference.
After Sydney, the most immediate results will become evident in the Olympic sports, but the goal is to protect the clean athletes everywhere, and give them back the physiological and psychological advantage they have lost. After October 2, it is the hope of the USADA that as soon as possible we will be at a point in time where the cheaters will be caught and punished. And, just as importantly, if not caught immediately, then at some time in the future.
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There is overwhelming evidence which shows that creatine supplementation does cause an increase in the amount of creatine phosphate in muscles. Harris et al (1992) conducted a study examining creatine content in the quadriceps femoris muscle in 17 subjects after supplementation of 5 g of creative monohydrate 4-6 times a day for two days. The results found a significant increase in the total creatine level in all subjects but the results were especially noticeable in those with the lowest muscle creatine store at the start of the study. To determine whether exercise could affect the amount of creatine absorbed by muscles, some of the participants followed a unique training program. During supplementation, they pedaled a bicycle ergometer for one hour each day while using only one leg to supply the pedaling force. With supplementation, the unexercised legs increased their creatine levels by about 25 percent, but the exercised legs increased their creatine levels by 37 percent. It is hypothesized that exercise increases the flow of blood to the muscles or changes the rate at which muscles absorb creative from the blood, thus improving the creatine loading effect. Another study conducted by Febbraio replicated the results obtained by Harris.
Several studies also show that creatine supplementation does cause an increase in muscle strength. Earnest et al (1995) conducted a study investigating the influence of creatine monohydrate supplementation on muscular power and strength in 10 experienced weight trained male subjects. Three series of high intensity, anaerobic type muscular workouts were used. The first series consisted of three consecutive 30 second Wingate bike tests, followed by five minuets of rest. Peak anaerobic power was defined as the greatest power achieved in a given five second work interval. Anaerobic work was defined as the total amount of work performed in a 30 second period. The second series used a one repetition maximum (lRM) free weight bench press as a test of muscular strength. The third series utilized complete lifting repetitions at 70% of the bench press IRM until fatigue. Fatigue was defined as the inability to complete one lifting repetition or the inability to maintain a lifting cadence of one second eccentric and one second concentric (lifting and lowering the weight). Total lifting volume was calculated as 70% of pre-test IRM multiplied by the number of complete lifting repetitions. Subjects received either a glucose placebo or creatine monohydrate supplement in a double blind fashion. (After 14 days of supplementation, each subject was re-tested on the Wingate bike tests. Re-testing for the weight lifting trials was done after 28 days of supplementation.
Within the creatine group, total anaerobic work from the Wingate tests was significantly higher during all post-test trials. The increases were 13% for series one, 18% for series two and 18% for series three. No changes were noted in the placebo group. Greater total anaerobic work resulted from the creatine subject's ability to achieve and maintain higher levels of anaerobic power consistently over- each five second time interval. Bench press IRM increased 6% in the creatine group. Total lifting volume was significantly higher within the creatine group, whether expressed in absolute terms (26%) or relative terms (29%). Increases in the total lifting volume were associated with the ability of the creatine group to perform 26% more lifting repetitions. The authors conclude that the ability of the creatine group to perform a greater total lifting volume demonstrates the effectiveness of creatine as an ergogenic aid.
In Hultman's study (cited in Anderson, 1974) these results were replicated. Each day, creatine was given in six separate doses of five grams a day. During the six-day period, five other Estonian runners of comparable ability received a glucose placebo instead. All runners were unaware of the actual composition of their supplements. Before and after the six-day supplementation, the athletes ran four 300-meter and (on a separate day) four 1000-meter intervals, with three minutes of rest between the 300-meter intervals and four minutes of rest between the 1000-meter intervals. Improvement on the final 300-meter interval (from pre-to-post supplementation) was more than twice as great for creatine users, and improvement was more than three times as great for creatine supplements in the final 1000-meter interval. Total time to run all four 1000-meter intervals improved from 770 to 757 seconds after creatine supplementation. In comparison, the placebo group actually slowed from 774 to 775 seconds.
In Hultman's study (cited by Anderson, 1994) creatine supplementation was very important during the last interval of each workout. Creatine supplementers doubled their advantage during the final 300-meter interval and tripled their advantage in the closing 1000-meter sprint. This supports Hultman's hypothesis that creatine is likely to be most helpful when lactic acid levels are highest and fatigue is greatest. Hultman thus feels that creatine serves as a buffer lowering lactic acid muscle burn and delaying fatigue, thus allowing an athlete to perform longer workouts.
In contrast, Balsom at al (1993) investigated the influence of creatine supplementation on endurance exercise performance in the form of a 6 km run and showed that creatine supplementation does not enhance performance or increase peak oxygen uptake during prolonged continuous exercise. There was actually decreased performance in the creatine supplementation group, which may be attributed to the participants weight gain.
In support of Balsam et al (1993), Febbraio et al (1995) conclude that creatine supplementation "may not increase performance during exercise where a significant proportion of energy is derived form aerobic metabolism." This aerobic metabolism occurs during more prolonged, sustained exercise as opposed to anaerobic metabolism which occurs during fast, nonsustained muscle contractions. It is therefore more likely that if creatine supplementation has an effect it will only be seen during brief, anaerobic exercise such as sprinting or weight lifting.
As you may or may not know, creatine monohydrate will not fully dissolve in liquid. That's why you always get that gritty sand at the bottom of the glass. Look at it this way, if it falls like sand to the bottom of your glass what does it do in your stomach? Maybe that explains why so many complain of stomach discomfort when using regular creatine monohydrate.
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