From the perspective of the doping expert Fritz Sörgel would be an income from Methamphetaminen not surprising for a handball goalkeeper. In this position, you have to be quick to react, the 74-year-old professor of pharmacology explained to the German Press Agency: “Someone who raises their hand a tenth of a second faster holds the seven meter.”
Amphetamines would stimulate performance both physically and psychologically. “When it comes to goalkeeping, it’s less about stamina and more about reaction speed under stressful conditions,” said Sörgel.
The National Anti Doping Agency Germany (Nada) confirmed to the German Press Agency on Thursday that the 30-year-old Swiss national goalkeeper had a positive result in a competition test Nicholas Portner from the SC Magdeburg Methamphetamine had been found and it was Crystal Meth act. Portner reacted in shock to the result and was provisionally suspended by the Handball Bundesliga Executive Board with immediate effect on Thursday.
If you take such methamphetamines one or one and a half hours before the game, their effect is long enough to last you through a handball game, explained Sörgel. A certain psychological dependence could arise if one knew that “under these conditions, things get better with this medication”. In order for a real addiction to develop in the classic sense, you would have to take it more or less daily over a long period of time, said Sörgel.