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| Have you read about the abortion doping that was used commonly in Russia and other eastern block countries ?
Women produce a lot of hormones that have a big impact on their sports performance when they just got pregnant.
Women athletes used to get pregnant and abort just before the important championships ( olympics WC etc ).
It is even said that young teenager athletes were forced to have sex with their coaches and then abort to be ready for the games. | |
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Yes I have heard of it, but I think that it was during training not competition phases that it was done. As far as I understand it, the hormones helped the training effect when they were going through intensive training phases as they came off the intensive phase they aborted and went into a maintenance phase. I don't think pregnancy would be any benefit in a competition phase because it has an effect on ligaments etc which could potentially lead to easier injury.