Gunther Cuylits R.I.P.

[fat_boy_fat]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/belgian-cyclist-cuylits-dies-after-tour-du-faso

What could have happened to him?

 

[RHRH19861986]

Why in the "clinics"?? This man has been professional endurance athlete for many years, and, being Belgian and having the age of the first EPO era users, maybe has been doping at some time in his career. But this doping surely only play a 5% role.

Pros and the best amateurs oftenly race when feeling sick, having slight fever, virus and so on. This is MUCH more important for these early death cases.

Like someone else wrote here in the clinics, these EPO stories normally don´t kill people.
Living with 48% HCT instead of 42? No big thing.
These maximum 2 IE of HGH, used from time to time? No big thing, pro bodybuilders do 8-16IE a day all year, Ronnie Coleman did, is still alive, will be 50 soon.
Corticoids? Every grandmother will get it.
Testosterone? These few capsules of Andriol? Bodybuilders laugh, they wouldn´t even take that, they are on Testo Enanthate or Cypionate, Dennis James is 46, big and broad like in his best days, will be on the Master Olympia stage in December, is healty, probably shoot Testo for 25 years now.
Amphetamines? Students have their Ritalin before the test, do they die aged 25?? Big bankers have their cocaine, what about them?

I´m almost 100% sure this death doesn´t have anything to do with clinic stuff, at least not directly.

 

[benzwire]

With all due respect, this should not be in the Clinic unless there is evidence that his death was doping related. Until then, this is simply tarnishing this guy's name. It's not appropriate.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Whatever he was or was not doing and whether or not it had anything to do with his death (which is a terrible thing), raising the question does not tarnish his reputation nearly as much as it should tarnish the reputations of McQuaid and Verbruggen and UCI and all the "Doctors" and Team Directors and other enablers who have made money off of the charade that pro cycling has become.
If another death is related to this circus then by all means we should talk about it. If it is unrelated then the blame should fall directly on the doping enablers, not a victim of the system like this poor guy and not on anyone who raises the question on the internet.

 

[palmerq]

I agree this is not a good thread just now.... someone start one in the normal cycling forum untill there is evidence to suggest otherwise