the line between legal and illegal should be in plain sight and it should be blatant. but today, in our sport, it's cloudy.

i agree whole heartedly with shannon's take on PED's and USADA.

no one is offering advice or counseling on the matter. i take protein, a multivitamin, and pre-workout amino acids. i have been taking the same thing for 3 or 4 years now and have been tested around 30 times (give or take 5) in and out of competition. i love the product and trust in the results i've seen and experienced. but, i still have to ASSUME everyday that it's a clean product.

if USADA came out with a nationally sponsored product line.... i'd drop everything and start using it.

just give some guidance and help the sport clean itself up. you can educate people all you want, but the bottom line is that someone, somewhere is going to cheat the system. i'm as competitive as it comes and i stay and will always stay on the clean side of the line. but there are tons of people who will toe that line or get as close to it as possible. offer something that YOU, as testers, would approve of and pass all drug tests WADA, USADA, NCAA, BIG12, SEC, on down the line, etc. you would get people banging down the doors for it. make it "The Official Supplement of USA Track and Field". make a profit from it. fund your research with it. stay ahead of the dopers. i don't know, just rambling here.

if they gave us a CLEAN option, then i think you open the door for much more threatening punishments (ex. lifetime bans for 1st offense). get cheaters out of the sport.

this topic really bugs me, and i haven't thought about it much this year until today.

what do you guys think of a nationally sponsored supplement?