khannie , 1 month ago

In general things that can calm your nerves in the run up to a very stressful sporting event are banned since forever.

I can tell you as someone who used to compete at a way lower level than these folks but still way beyond the average person that nerves have a huge impact on your body and therefore performance so it does make sense.

I’ll leave you to infer yourself how the human body responds to extreme stress and how that might affect performance. :)