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by lostlogin 3118 days ago
I don’t think that the drug regimes of the Soviet Olympic Teams should be held up as a good example to follow - a lot of damage was done to a lot of people. On a related note, the Russian team just got banned for trying that crap again.

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/russia-banned-from-2...

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That was mostly political decision, many American/Norwegian/... are legally taking performance enhancing drugs.
This is what's known as an ad hominem argument
That literally has nothing to do with whether or not Vitamin D is useful.