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therapeutic use exemption for salbutamol. same reason the entire norwegian winter olympic team "has asthma". or why the a ton of russian athletes "had ischemia" and needed meldonium. or why many gymnasts "have ADHD"

all your favorite athletes are cheating, especially from rich countries :)

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What are you talking about? You don't need a therapeutic use exemption to use salbutamol at the doesages required to control asthma. It does not improve performance.

Breathing cold air does induce asthma, so it's perfectly plausible that everyone on the Norwegian Olympic team could have exercise induced asthma and not be gaining any advantage from it.

Stop casually mixing genuinely asthmatic athletes using, non-controlled, non-performance enhancing medicines with state sponsored dopers.

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