Sport Supplements in Olympic Games
According to the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA), ninety per cent of the 11,000 athletes in attendance at the Olympic games in China 2008 used dietary supplements of some kind.
Many national sporting bodies have warned athletes against taking any dietary supplements due to contamination fears. In the past contaminated sport supplements have blaimed leading to positive doping tests and got athletes sent home and banned. However, in the summer Olympics of 2008 there were no supplement related doping scandals.
The fact is, as ESSNA chairman Dr Adam Carey notes, if there are safe products on the market that can benefit an athlete’s performance and overall health, it is verging on negligence to advise athletes against them. Creatine, peptides, green tea and sports drinks are just a few of those of most interest to athletes.
The dirty reputation of sport supplements seems to be about to change, and dietary supplements are becoming more clean and more used also at the Olympic level. The World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, has performed over 5000 doping tests in Beijing 2008. Currently the WADA’s list of strong banned substances contains four thousand entries.
Source: Nutra Ingredients.
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