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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:04:43 GMT, JohnB <[email protected]> wrote (more
or less):
>Gawnsoft wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:38:16 +1000, MSeries wrote (more or less):
>> ... > The question is more complex than is he or isn't he.
>>
>> Absolutely. I used to fence competitively.
>>
>> I made sure I never ever drank coffee.
>>
>> That way, at the round when I first expected to be eliminated, I'd
>> have a couple of strong cups of coffee.
>>
>> And I got the 10% uplift in reaction time that most daily
>> coffee-drinkers have acclimated out of.
>
>> Now was I using performance enhancing drugs, or not?
>
>Yes.
>But not now. AIUI caffeine is no longer on the list of proscribed substances.
It was never proscribed, but it did have maximum permitted levels.*
Have the max. levels gone?
* (Or at least didn't for the FIE (International Fencing Federation) .
I don't know the specifics for other sports governing bodies.)
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Cheers,
Euan
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or less):
>Gawnsoft wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:38:16 +1000, MSeries wrote (more or less):
>> ... > The question is more complex than is he or isn't he.
>>
>> Absolutely. I used to fence competitively.
>>
>> I made sure I never ever drank coffee.
>>
>> That way, at the round when I first expected to be eliminated, I'd
>> have a couple of strong cups of coffee.
>>
>> And I got the 10% uplift in reaction time that most daily
>> coffee-drinkers have acclimated out of.
>
>> Now was I using performance enhancing drugs, or not?
>
>Yes.
>But not now. AIUI caffeine is no longer on the list of proscribed substances.
It was never proscribed, but it did have maximum permitted levels.*
Have the max. levels gone?
* (Or at least didn't for the FIE (International Fencing Federation) .
I don't know the specifics for other sports governing bodies.)
--
Cheers,
Euan
Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr
Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122
Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk