Chapter 1940 Stimulants Are Not that Useful

It's crazy.

When Yun Hua improved the world record of the women's 400-meter individual medley by 12.39 seconds, the whole world was in an uproar. Everyone thought she must have used doping.

And now, when she improved the women's 800-meter freestyle world record by 52.50 seconds, the world fell silent.

What are the functions of stimulants?

In sports competitions, doping now refers not only to drugs that can make athletes excited, but also to a collective term for banned drugs.

Any illegal drug is called a stimulant.

Therefore, the effects of stimulants are also divided into many types.

Anabolic agents that can increase muscle mass and strength are also called anabolic steroids, also known as anabolic hormones. They are anabolic drugs. The side effects of these drugs can cause enlarged breasts, smaller penis, infertility, etc. for men, while for women, the side effects include a deep voice, abundant body hair, decreased menstruation, and even menopause.

The other can significantly improve athletes' aerobic exercise capacity, promote red blood cell production, increase the amount of red blood cells produced by bone marrow, and improve blood oxygen supply capacity, thereby improving athletes' endurance.

There are also drugs that can improve the stability and coordination of athletes' movements.

There are also common diuretics, which can quickly reduce weight, promote urination, and evade doping tests by diluting and changing the excretion rate of the drugs being taken.

There is also a stimulant, which after use can reduce the fatigue of athletes, delay the fatigue of the central nervous system, and significantly improve the sensitivity and aggressiveness of athletes, etc.

These are stimulants.

Regardless of the effects of these stimulants, the simple truth is that all athletes who use stimulants want to achieve good results.

The role of stimulants is to improve their performance by changing their physical functions!

So the question is, how much can the use of doping improve athletes' performance?

First of all, I want to say that not all stimulants can improve athletes' performance in all sports, such as table tennis. In such sports, stimulants have little effect.

The sports with the most obvious manifestations of doping are often weightlifting, track and field and swimming. These have also been the areas hardest hit by doping in previous world-class competitions, especially swimming.

So how much can stimulants improve performance?

In 2010, Meinhardt published research in the 152nd issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, proving that taking human growth hormone can increase athletes' sprinting ability by 4%.

There is no specific concept for this. Just convert it into a competition. Using human growth hormone can improve an athlete's performance by 0.1 seconds every 10 seconds.

Note that this is sprinting, which is often done in short-distance track and field or swimming. The final sprint performance increases by 0.1 seconds every 10 seconds!

This is already very remarkable.

In fact, in many competitions, the difference is only 0.1 seconds, or even 0.01 seconds.

Then you will know if you convert it, assuming that everything is sprinting, it can be improved by 0.6 seconds per minute, and 4.8 seconds can be improved in 8 minutes.

In fact, all of us know that in a seven- to eight-minute track and field or swimming competition, physical distribution must be taken into consideration, and it is impossible to sprint from the beginning to the end.

That 4.8 seconds has to be discounted. 4 seconds is already the limit.

Yun Hua's previous 800-meter freestyle world record was 8 minutes, 04 seconds and 53 seconds. Calculated by an improvement of 4 seconds, the fastest was also 8 minutes, 00 seconds and 53 seconds.

But what is Yun Hua's score?

7 minutes, 12 seconds and 3 seconds!

You must know that the more stimulants you use, the higher your performance will improve. In fact, there is a threshold for the use of stimulants. If it exceeds this threshold, it will be useless no matter how much you use.

To put it more absolutely, it is absolutely impossible for any athlete in the world to swim at a time of 7 minutes, 12.03 seconds, no matter how much doping they take!

People who don't care about sports don't have much idea about the role of doping. They think that if their results are too good, they just use doping. But those in the industry, or those with a little knowledge of medicine, all know that stimulants can improve athletes' performance, but the degree of improvement is definitely not that powerful!

It is precisely because of this that when this achievement appeared, many major media outlets around the world fell silent because they did not know how to report it.

Doping?

No, these authoritative newspapers have consultants, and they rashly publish some reports that are wrong in common sense, which will greatly damage the reputation of the newspaper.

But some tabloids don't have so many concerns. If you, an Asian, swim so powerfully, you are doping!

What? Can't you achieve this result even if you use stimulants? I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, you must have new and more powerful stimulants!

In fact, everyone in the industry knows that all countries have done a lot of research on doping, and are committed to developing new stimulants that can circumvent current inspections and find new stimulants that are not currently classified as banned drugs. But it is not that simple. ?

These stimulant drugs challenge the limits of human beings, and the research on these drugs often represents the pinnacle of human medical research and development.

How could it be so easy to break through?

However, these tabloids did find a good breakthrough.

As a result, media around the world began to devote themselves to reporting that country Z had discovered a new type of doping that could circumvent current doping tests!

As soon as this report came out, Western society began to agree with it.

Existing stimulants cannot improve athletes' performance by that much. However, the traditional Chinese medicine in country Z has always been mysterious. Maybe some kind of medicinal herb has been discovered to have miraculous effects and can circumvent doping tests, so it is given The athletes used it, which led to the performance of the Z country team improving so much all of a sudden!

Yes, that must be the case.

You say it's impossible? What's impossible about that? Cupping in country Z is very powerful. During the 2008 Olympic Games, Feiyu even received cupping treatment! Moreover, cupping therapy is also very popular in country M. It is indeed effective. Isn’t this all evil?

There are also Chinese herbal medicines in country Z. They need to distinguish pulses, yin and yang, and separate monarch and ministerial medicines. If these are not witchcraft, what are they? And it is said that the traditional Chinese medicine in country Z was actually inseparable from witch doctors in ancient times!

All in all, all in all, the whole world is now asking the Z national team to undergo examinations from authoritative medical institutions!

Yun Hua, in particular, has to undergo many kinds of tests. They believe that with the advanced medical technology of M country, even if she uses some kind of drug that is not in the doping catalog, it will definitely be detected!

So, on December 17, 2010, Team Z held a press conference in Dubai.