Recent content by KayLow

Personally, I cannot wait for her confession -- delivered via press release -- in which she writes about how, when she first met Lance, she fell deeply in love, but only later discovered that all was not what it seemed. She will then tell us that she had serious misgivings about Lance's doping...

The same approach Lance used to win races was used by a lot of these rich guys to succeed in business. No wonder they liked him and what he represented. Heck, one reason they may be so personally drawn to cycling is that, unlike a lot of sports, in cycling significant cheating is accessible to...

Hilarious that the reason the anti-doping authorities were suspicious of the Russian runners was that they were always really punctual for OOC testing. I guess that kind of thing is pretty unusual.

Riders who were never hired by teams would not be in a good position to sue, because they could not easily prove that: (a) the team required all of its riders to dope as a condition of employment; and (b) that the team knew the rider would not dope and therefore refused to hire him on that...

Who is "they" who made money selling the sponsor equipment? Landis made this accusation, but it was tough to piece together. Hamilton suggests that, at least initially, the doping program at U.S. Postal was run by the team. Perhaps team staff (i.e. Bruyneel) was selling the equipment to buy...

Listen to Victor Conte. The research tends to show that HGH decreases fat mass without also decreasing lean mass. In the small studies of elderly people that pass for research on this subject, this is not regarded as a performance-enhancing effect. In the world of professional cycling where a...

This. It is one thing if you are someone who comes in from the outside to give riders massages or to run errands, but Sean Yates is an insider who rode when cycling was already extremely dirty and was highly placed staff inside the dirtiest team in the history of sports. The notion that he...

The cure for those starting to feel sympathetic towards the doping liars that rode beside Armstrong is to look back at history. Hincapie was sitting to Armstrong's right when Armstrong told Paul Kimmage that he wasn't worth the chair he was sitting on. Big George was not so big on that day...

What's more, Johnson's physique would not be notable among today's sprinters. Makes you wonder.

I will start feeling good about pro cycling again when two things begin to happen with regularity: (1) Riders who were once very good to great inexplicably drop off the map. (2) Retired riders confess to having once regularly doped during their careers but also claim to have stopped doping...

This discussion of the economics of sports has an interesting take on doping: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/08/roger_noll_on_t.html Roger Noll argues that sports should let the participants set the rules on doping. I would be sympathetic to this argument were it not for the fact...

My take on it is that Lance believed that every single person on Postal owed their careers to him, whereas everything he accomplished was on his own. Thus, when anyone made Lance unhappy for any reason whatsoever, that person, whether it was a rider or staff, was gone. At the same time, Lance...

Because doping is endemic to the point that virtually no clean rider can compete, there is a survivor bias here. Everyone has to dope to get to the top, so, not surprisingly, the guys at the top are fine with doping. They are also aware that a large portion of the public thinks that doping is...

The effects of HGH on performance are hotly debated by athletes and scientists. Lots of athletes use and (quietly) swear by HGH and others (Tyler Hamilton being one) claim that HGH actually harms hinders performance. One of the unique qualities of HGH is that promotes muscle cell...

A lot of chemotherapies are antifolates, which completely decimate rapidly dividing cells. Bone marrow tissue contains some of the most rapidly dividing cells in the body. Bone marrow tissue also produces RBCs. Putting one and one together, you can figure out what antifolates do to one's RBC...