Paracycling

[Benotti69]

angling to be para millar qua angle angling para millar.

guffaws ensue

#blackcatiness

 

[sniper]

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angling to be para millar qua angle angling para millar.

guffaws ensue

#blackcatiness

Michael Gallagher: "my coach Dan who had no idea"
Millar: "my close friend and coach Dave who had no idea despite dating my sister who was running my program, and despite holding my hand right there in that restaurant in Biarritz when I got blitzed and my house got raided by the French police"

 

[Night Rider]

Re: Re:

angling to be para millar qua angle angling para millar.

guffaws ensue

#blackcatiness

Michael Gallagher: "my coach Dan who had no idea"
Millar: "my close friend and coach Dave who had no idea despite dating my sister who was running my program, and despite holding my hand right there in that restaurant in Biarritz when I got blitzed and my house got raided by the French police"

If Dan was a good coach there aren't that many scenario's where you could imagine that statement being true if Gallagher is being honest about only using EPO this year. There would be a big jump in performance from previous seasons data. The coach would have to know.

More likely is that Gallagher has been on the sauce for years and that's whey the coach had no idea, or maybe he did but didn't say anything? Who knows? We are being asked to trust a statement from someone who is not deserving of that trust.

I noticed the outfit Gallagher coaches for pulled all traces of him off their site before the news broke.

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Cyclingtips article:
https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/paralympian-michael-gallagher-opens-up-about-his-epo-doping-its-good-to-not-have-that-secret-any-more/

 

[Nomad]

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Cyclingtips article:
https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/paralympian-michael-gallagher-opens-up-about-his-epo-doping-its-good-to-not-have-that-secret-any-more/

Interesting article. But what I don't understand with Gallagher is he said he obtained a natural Hct of "45.9," that was achieved while clean and boosted with EPO to only "47.7"...a dismal gain of ~3.9% (marginal improvement on VO2max?). However, he says he was seeing a 5% increase in performance...so he must have been a super-high responder or something.

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

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Cyclingtips article:
https://cyclingtips.com/2016/12/paralympian-michael-gallagher-opens-up-about-his-epo-doping-its-good-to-not-have-that-secret-any-more/

Interesting article. But what I don't understand with Gallagher is he said he obtained a natural Hct of "45.9," that was achieved while clean and boosted with EPO to only "47.7"...a dismal gain of ~3.9% (marginal improvement on VO2max?). However, he says he was seeing a 5% increase in performance...so he must have been a super-high responder or something.

Performance improvement is due to many physiological factors, and is not solely due to changes in HCT. Keep in mind performance can improve while HCT declines, e.g. through increased blood plasma volume after a block of VO2max work. Training that can also increase cardiac output, and of course peripheral adaptations in the muscles (increased mitochondrial enzyme activity, capillarisation etc).

There would also be natural variation in HCT levels depending on athlete status when blood was taken/checked. e.g. hydration status.