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Friday, March 03, 2006
 
Category: Health
Again with health...
The Thorpedo's illness concerns me a little. It seems that the doctors are reasonably sure they could at least reduce the symptoms but they are not able to give him the requisite drugs. His manager, Dave Flaskas, said
restrictions on what medication swimmers could take was impeding Thorpe's recovery.
"Unfortunately, a lot of the normal stuff that people are given are on the banned list," he said.
"We haven't got time to get that stuff approved, unfortunately.
"You just can't get it in 24 hours, no matter how sick you are.
"One doctor wanted to see him go on to Ventolin to try to help the breathing but to go on Ventolin there's got to be a history and it all takes time.
"The Games would come and go by the time you get approval.
"The irony of it is I went over to his place yesterday afternoon to see how he was and there's the FINA drug testers sitting in his room."
Now, as you all know, I don't really have complete confidence in modern medicine but common sense says that if the tools that they do have in place are not able to be used due to some petty sporting rules, it's the rules that should go (or at least be altered).
Just One Guy's Opinion™

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