Here are some questions

[Jangle]

When athletes participate in those meet, at the end of the races you see the meet attendants handing them bottles of water or some coloured fluid. Aren't these athletes exposing themselves? What is to prevent tainted ingredients from being ingested? I would presume that the major sponsors of these meets would only allow their products to be handed out. What steps are taken to prevent some malicious person/s from tainting these products?

[Karl]

When athletes participate in those meet, at the end of the races you see the meet attendants handing them bottles of water or some coloured fluid. Aren't these athletes exposing themselves? What is to prevent tainted ingredients from being ingested? I would presume that the major sponsors of these meets would only allow their products to be handed out. What steps are taken to prevent some malicious person/s from tainting these products?

Ever hear those who are to protect us say, you cannot plug every hole?
Well?

[Historian]

Very Good Questions!

When athletes participate in those meet, at the end of the races you see the meet attendants handing them bottles of water or some coloured fluid. Aren't these athletes exposing themselves? What is to prevent tainted ingredients from being ingested? I would presume that the major sponsors of these meets would only allow their products to be handed out. What steps are taken to prevent some malicious person/s from tainting these products?

Jangle, I find it interesting that you should ask these questions, as only last night I was discussing this worrying possibility with a friend on the phone. I have always wondered about the wisdom of athletes accepting those bottled fluids, and I started to in fact worry even more about that during the 2006 track and field season when Sherone Simpson was dominating the world of sprinting!

I can only hope that your questions resonate in the minds of the coaches of our athletes. ( I wish it were possible for our athletes to fling the bottles into the spectator stands in the way that they always do with the bouquets.)

[Time]

When athletes participate in those meet, at the end of the races you see the meet attendants handing them bottles of water or some coloured fluid. Aren't these athletes exposing themselves? What is to prevent tainted ingredients from being ingested? I would presume that the major sponsors of these meets would only allow their products to be handed out. What steps are taken to prevent some malicious person/s from tainting these products?

I wondered about that...I guess that is also I way out...did n't you see me on TV drinking a from a bottle after the race?

[Sickko]

Seems like a lot of us been talking about that very same subject as I have discussed the same topic on at least three opccasions since yesterday and I do recall a gasp going up from amongst those who sat near me at the JII meet in 2006 when Tyson Gay just grabbed a bottle from one of the volunteeers and gulped down the contents right after a race.

We have heard warnings all the time and heard coaches tell athletes all the time never to drink from those sources especially when away from home.