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Methylphenidate (sold as Ritalin or Concerta) is banned by WADA under S6 Stimulants
see https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/2024list_en_final_22_september_2023.pdf

If anyone is taking Ritalin in the pro-peloton, they'd need a TUE or they'll be in trouble.

Edit add- I see that the gymnastic star from the US, Simone Biles is on Ritalin.
Thank you Fancy Bears for bringing proof of PED use by so many American cheaters like biles. Funny how she got stage fright at a place that doesn't allow her PED of choice (ofc she is on others as well );)
 
Honestly I don't mind having central stimulants as TUE. I know for me as a non athlete they're insanely performance enhancing but for an athlete it won't be more than back in Merx time. And some crashes probably is avoided due to enhanced concentration. So for crying out loud give more of them to Kelderman! Give them to the head in the clouds riders that really needs them.

Kruiswijk, God could he have a harder name to spell? Give him some too.

Adhd should logically make more sense with cyclo-cross, mtb, bmx etc. Adrenaline sports. Not that cycling isn't adrenaline, obviously it is but it also demands a tenacity that's not adhd strong suit 😉 😁

(Oh plz give methylphenidate to Jasper too. Not that i doubt he's already on it.)

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/12/741

This article suggests extremely low numbers. Mainly because it estimate adhd to less than 3 percent in a population and there's certainly countries with a far higher adhd diagnosis percentage.

I'm rambling and melatonin setting in. Gotta return to this topic tomorrow.
 
I don't know what Evenpoel takes and he can finish a 273 km course being less out of breath than me at the end of my 160 W zone2-zwift-one-hour-ride but it ain't ritalin or salbutamol. I have a prescription for salbutamol. Never noticed any difference, marginal or not...
 
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Pogi apparently has a "death list" and if Tiberi ever joins UAE, people should watch out ... or something like that.:)
During the Tour, the team made two lists with "friends" and "enemies" in the race, the latter was called a "blacklist" by Politt. I assume that's what you/the video is/are referring to, cause I'm not clicking on anything made by that channel.
 
Getting along with Teddy paid off!

My friend, here is my recipe for good porridge. Good luck at the Olympics!
Not that way. I think it's clear that Pogi could win Olympic RR easily, but he chose to leave this race for his ally to shine. Beef between Pog and national federation about Urska also helped him to make such decision.

As the result of this alliance, Remco now has 2x Olympic Gold and Le Tour podium. He can be considered a rider of the year if Pog wasn't as successful in his double attempt. Pog is sharing the piece of cake with strong guys, the ones who deserve his attention in the future.

I think we'll see some more guys joining him in his crusade against Jonas, but he'll choose his allies carefully. They need to be strong riders with powerful people backing them up.
 
There's obviously a lot of people in here who don't have ADHD and haven't got the faintest clue what methylphenidate actually does for people with it. I take it daily and it absolutely doesn't improve my performance at all. The only thing I've ever noticed it do is sometimes making me feel worse during exercise and burning out faster. I've tried various dosages to find the right balance and the general trend was that, the higher the dosages got the worse I felt during physical exertions. It's a huge help just for functioning in everyday life though, so I guess it improves performance in terms of being an adult.

It obviously affects people differently, especially those without ADHD, so I can't speak for everyone, but Remco is pretty much a textbook case of ADHD, so if he has a TUE I'm willing to bet it's not doing much for him on the bike, but helping him massively with everything else he needs to do in life unrelated to his sport.
 
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There's obviously a lot of people in here who don't have ADHD and haven't got the faintest clue what methylphenidate actually does for people with it. I take it daily and it absolutely doesn't improve my performance at all. The only thing I've ever noticed it do is sometimes making me feel worse during exercise and burning out faster. I've tried various dosages to find the right balance and the general trend was that, the higher the dosages got the worse I felt during physical exertions. It's a huge help just for functioning in everyday life though, so I guess it improves performance in terms of being an adult.

It obviously affects people differently, especially those without ADHD, so I can't speak for everyone, but Remco is pretty much a textbook case of ADHD, so if he has a TUE I'm willing to bet it's not doing much for him on the bike, but helping him massively with everything else he needs to do in life unrelated to his sport.
Spot on from my family experience. A youngster in the family was very moody and immature but generally good natured. Schoolwork was spotty. He also was a ridiculously good baseball player that hated the routine of practice.
On counselling he was given light medication which seemed to help all symptoms. His interest in sports changed; he didn't want to participate. He's insanely competitive and a very good alpine skier with all of the skills related to that. He also loves it. His family is encouraging him to work out more regularly as he's growing quickly and starting to muscle up. Not so he'd embrace sport so much as become attached to a good lifelong habit like he's taking to skiing.
 
They say nutrition monitoring in cycling when most just mean calories/energy consumption.

Some will be doing it of course, but from the videos I've watched not much attention paid to proper macros or, vitamin/minerals, athletes ate cleaner 10 years ago, even in the gym that super regulated whole foods only thing has gone out of fashion.
Yeah, froome was doing the nutrition stuff 10 years ago but I remember him talking about pea shoots in his porridge and special recovery shakes with specific proteins. Gerant Thomas talking about fish and salad dinners to lose weight at teide and Nibali only being allowed apricots for dessert during big training camps

As you said everything now is just how much carbs to consume per gram of bodyweight for fueling the prescribed ride for the day in terms of kjoule expenditure. Stuffing a lot more processed carbs and weighting everything. Really boring in my opinion, and it also never helped my own training, all that weighting and calorie tracking, it just made me hate my life
 
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2zt2UEJBY


Remco is fuelling itself with random soft drinks and gummy bears ahead of the world championship. Either they cut out the part where Oumi stores Remco's blood in the fridge, or I massively overspent on sports nutritions
Its all about the sugar, i.e. carbs. Might as well drink Fanta and eat gummy bears instead of drinking expensive sports drinks and overpriced energybars and gels. And as everyone should know by now, people have realized that you can go 90 instead of 60 and now 120 instead of 90. Thats the big one.

Anyways, nothing is controversial or surprising about that video at all outside of just casually eating some high fat, 1000 calories ben and jerries. I dno about that one, that seems *** stupid.
 
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