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Honest question: why is weed is on the athletics anti-doping list. Isn’t it the opposite of performance enhancing?

Sha’Carri Richardson Is Left Off the U.S. Olympic Team

Team USA’s roster of track and field athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will be missing its biggest newsmaker ahead of the Games: sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.

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Pharmaceutical pain relief is performance enhancement. Athletes training for the US Nationals were even prohibited from using Ibuprofen (late 1980’s, I don’t know if that’s still the case). I whimpered when my coach told me 2 espresso and 4 Advil just before training was a no-no

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