wow.i think you would find its difficult to cheat this particular system.you would have to be one slimey son of a scum to beat it.imo.the better u get..the more you get tested.
theres also th self policing element in PA where its very likely you would get squealed on if anyone caught wind of the fact you were roiding.i wouldnt hesitate if i had evidence.theres no way someones getting the jump on me like that.
I knew a natty PA lifter who was tested 4 times in 6 months, his feeling was that he was being tested in place of others who may have failed so that they could sail through as was desired by PA management.
If you are spending massive amounts of money paying people to run around the country plus lab fees and all their costs, the last thing you want is to be letting people "slip through". That's like having a police station with zero arrests and zero speeding fines.
That's another example. SP has proven himself to be clean time and time again. Some whiner is able to cause resources to be misallocated to persecute someone which then creates the potential for countless others to slip through the cracks.
my best mate, benched 182.5kg clean at about 109kg bodyweight. Was doing around 300kg deadlift also.
Talent is the bottom line, assuming hard work done.
Drugs only icing on cake even for those not subject to testing.
That's not how it works. Some lifters are targeted. Steve Pritchard had a thread on here a while back about his being tested every month on average (might have been a touch more) over 12 months. That including turning up on his doorstep at 6.30am, not just at comps. He suspected that someone was getting their knickers in a twist because he was Australia's strongest tested lifter and held various raw world records.
But no one is targeted to let others slip through. This isn't Russia. If you think about it, all the goons that turn up at our comps (and other sporting events) are paid by our hard earned tax dollars (no thanks to Google, Apple, Gina Rhinehart and Glencore) which are fisted over to them via federal budgets. If you are spending massive amounts of money paying people to run around the country plus lab fees and all their costs, the last thing you want is to be letting people "slip through". That's like having a police station with zero arrests and zero speeding fines. You are going to have that station closed down pretty quick. It's in the interests of the testers to be seen to be not only busy but "effective" in order to get continued and increased funding.
The one thing public servants are good at is keeping their jobs and keeping the money coming in.
I'm afraid much of what has been written above sounds more than plausible. The funny thing about the 'clique' assertion/observation if it were true (and holding my breath here as a paid up member) - is that there really is so little at stake. PL is full of some very special people indeed.
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