In Tim Carlson’s feature on Nina Kraft (Features link here) and her road back from a performance enhancing drug violation, he reminds us that triathlon’s history is not free of drug use. TH.Com wants to know what readers think about our sport’s connection to performance drug use then and now. How drug free was the sport in the 90’s and 2000’s? Are we as drug free (including age groups) now as we give ourselves credit for? How do the accusations of drug use today (when great performances are witnessed) affect the validity and credibility of a break-through performance?
This is the kind of story we tell each other over a beer. It’s a triathlon classic from the wooly early days of the sport, when the world was just waking up to the notion of triathlon, and even folks in the business were learning as they went. It was on-the-job training for everyone,...
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