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Originally Posted by AndyC
Apparently plenty of people also support race day furosemide. If not, please list the people that are standing in the way banning race day use. You can start in California.
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I don't doubt that plenty of people support race day Lasix. The thing is, they are horsemen.
One of the reasons the World Anti-Doping Agency exists is because you have to separate your regulation of a sport from the participants. If you put coaches and athletes in charge of doping policy, or people who are close to coaches and athletes, they won't do anything about doping. If you put the player's union in charge of doping policy in baseball, well, they have members who like hitting 60 home runs.
So what you do is you put people in charge who are distant and have no personal relationship with anyone in the sport. All they care about is the doping issue.
We have a situation where a bunch of powerful horsemen are making a lot of money with their big win percentages produced by doping. And states have to cater to them. To stop doping, we need to curb their influence. Federalizing is one way to do that.
