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Yep, Lance said it was not the EPO that helped him win the Tour 7 times ... never tested positive! (Also health reasons? Guys died trying to game the system ...And now we find out EPO really doesn't work:
)BS of course. By the way it’s worked great for me: HCT increased by 8 with weekly injections. Of course, that was just going from 25 to 33And now we find out EPO really doesn't work:
A lawyer wins Ventoux in a controlled doping event, whereas the doped riders finished on average 38 sec. less than the clean ones. Is this a serious scientific study or BS? Dr. Conconi had other results/conclusions. You have to test a sample of elite athletes or those of considerably miserable shape.
I think this is where most studies fail, no active elite athlete would ever admit to doping because it would spell the end of his/her career. So the testing pool is extremely poor from the get-go.And now we find out EPO really doesn't work:
A lawyer wins Ventoux in a controlled doping event, whereas the doped riders finished on average 38 sec. less than the clean ones. Is this a serious scientific study or BS? Dr. Conconi had other results/conclusions. You have to test a sample of elite athletes or those of considerably miserable shape.
I don’t see the article when I click the link, just brings me to general CN news article page. Was this several days ago?And now we find out EPO really doesn't work:
A lawyer wins Ventoux in a controlled doping event, whereas the doped riders finished on average 38 sec. less than the clean ones. Is this a serious scientific study or BS? Dr. Conconi had other results/conclusions. You have to test a sample of elite athletes or those of considerably miserable shape.
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Lance called EPO rocket fuel. You need to see how out of shape guys were to whom it was adminstered. The irony is that the worse shape you are in the greater the boost EPO will give you, but not enough to beat clean guys in really good shape, let alone top athletes on it. Then it becomes another relative matter. Why wasn't this considered in a scientific analysis?Yep, Lance said it was not the EPO that helped him win the Tour 7 times ... never tested positive! (Also health reasons? Guys died trying to game the system ...
I suspect that it is usually used in relation to whether the PED is allowable ("legal") under the terms of the WADA list and other doping rules, not whether there are criminal sanctions. If criminal legislation were the only determinant, murder would be legal in the UK.
LA also characterized the use of EPO as "High-Octane" doping Back in 2016, LA was a guest speaker at a sports ethics class at the University of Colorado. He broke down cycling doping at the elite level into two separate categories; "High-Octane" (i.e. EPO) & "Low-Octane" (e.g. testosterone, HGH, cortisone, etc).
10% is the bear minimum. 10% in a 5/6 hour race in the mountains is how many minutes? Do the math. If everybody is on it, then it becomes a factor of who has acsess to the best doctor, or else Lance would have won the Tour in 95. Unless you believe Lance didn't take EPO in 1995.
Interesting that treatment for "Long Covid" (e.g. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00123-2/fulltext) would be of interest to "sporting types" Would this explain the difference between Pogi 2023 and Pogi 2024?.
Perhaps, but the UncleCycling on twitter account has a lot of nonnative English sounding phrasing, while the videos don't
2025? I'm hoping Vino goes full ...er ... Vino! No way will the Chinese want to lose face and go down from WT status so everyone at Astana will be on the "turtles blood".
However it goes, it'll be very entertaining (unless guys start collapsing like Colbrelli).
Which does not explain why a few guys can attack from 40, 50, 80km out and the peloton settles to fight for podium spots.
Yeah, it’s such an insult to our intelligence, especially the absurd excuses rolled out by busted athletes. Would be really funny if it wasn’t so irritating.
I don't know what one of them is the best joke.
Old jokes are never funny. And I've been hearing these particular ones since the 90s..
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