Recent content by ColonelKidneyBeans

Funny how the different systems works, here the doctor would ask you "are you comfortable injecting the product yourself?" if he thinks you're capable of it, and show you how it's done if the answer is "yes", if it's "no" he would write a prescription for a nurse to come to your home when...

I'm unfamiliar with US healtcare, in the country i live and work the various brands of EPO and its derivative are mostly available in prefilled syringe/autopen for ambulatory purpose (with the smallest dosage being 500 UI), vials are seldom seen outside of the hospital. Everything is covered by...

I think doing the 2021 tour would have been a mistake, throwing a very crash prone rider at the most hectic race of the calendar as his first GT would not have ended well. The Giro was obviously a bad choice though, he wasn't ready at all.

Diy blood doping is doable if you can get your hands on the stuff, EPO in a prefilled pen isn't exactly hard to use and you could even go with oral medication at the amateur level, i doubt they routinely test for HIF inhibitors there. Blood bags, well that's another story as you pointed out...

Rondel is a promising rider, he had some good results last year and rode a smart race, he's no pogacar but to call him "not decent opposition" isn't fair to him.

Light cold and they'd rather he rests than riding races in close succession it seems.

I don't think the passport is necessarily the right way to search for synthetic hemoglobin, if i were to design a test for it i'd rather search for the xenobiotics that are used to stabilize it (like KC 1003 for erythomer), with some good old LC-MS/MS it should not be infeasible, might be tricky...

The passport seems a bit dead since the Kreuziger case. Synthetic hemoglobin can have a short half life (as short as one hour), depending of the composition of the particles, so if timed well they could give a nice boost on a given day without triggering the passport.

We more or less know what you can get away with, which is: - Low dose Testosterone -Thyroid hormones -Low dose EPO -Low volume transfusion -OOC Corticoid -AICAR in moderate dose -B2 agonists -HGH and IGF-1 -Insulin There are things that are more speculative, like synthetic hemoglobin...

I don't get why you're searching for a single "Gianetti's Ferrari", there's probably more than one of them, with different tasks (e.g. "what to take and how" and "where do we get the good stuff" can be/should be handled by two different person) , and they might come and go across the years. In...

It's actually better to specify if you don't want to be misunderstood, yes. But still, my bad.

Vuelta 2023, stage 3

I would not take what is said there at face value, for instance you can dig up old tour magazine test and see that the bikes from ~10 years ago were already close to what is on offer now . Heck, the F8 on which thomas won his tour is actually marginally more aero than the F12, and lighter to...

And now it ain't so? Pogacar/UAE are the most obvious offender, but most everyone is going crazy fast too...

Armsstrong and Bruyneel were feared too, history has a knack for repeating itself.