Tiril Eckhoff: "Do not take more anti-asthmatic drugs, although it can"

The controversy over the status of "asthmatic" granted to many Norwegian cross-country skiers, with the consequent possibility of using broncho-dilators otherwise prohibited, has produced a disturbing effect on Tiril Eckhoff. The biathlete would be entitled to take the anti-asthmatic, but decided not to invoke it.

Thursday 3 November 2016 3 minutes reading time

"No more drugs will assume like that," said all''Aftenposten "because now it's so frowned upon by un''azione pushing me to give up. If I used them, I'm sure that during the season to my first good result would made me the question '' Have you used drugs against 'asthma today?' '. And that would make me sick. Now take a un''azione asthma is considered despicable. I saw very active in the media talk about the apparently '' healthy athletes '' with status asthmaticus. Too bad no one say that the 'asthma can disappear only to reappear all''improvviso. It would be nice if the people would understand that the diagnosis is not so simple. The 'I was diagnosed with asthma in the spring, but its onset varies. For example, at this time I have no problems, but the situazionne could change in the future. I have never used a nebulizer, the only drugs taken so far have taken them orally. But now, even my sister told me to make use of anti-asthma is considered by the people of serious misconduct. So I decided not to use them. " Indeed the words of Tiril Eckhoff, one of the favorites in the race for the women's Crystal Ball, opened an interesting new - however dark - in front of reflection. Now around the status of asthma in sports (especially norvegse) â€‹â€‹it has created a sort of McCarthyism that has led to un''autentica witch hunt, and therefore damage the 'image of the athletes in question. For this the twenty-six of Oslo has opted not to take anti-asthmatic, or has decided to give up its own right. In any field, be it sport or not, to decline its own right stands dell''esistenza of an infamous climate. The Scandinavian move should therefore make us reflect on the consequences of bad-careless information, devoid of analysis, done one way in order to tickle the worst instincts of the mass and create sensationalism.

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