I mean there's no reason to believe it went away unless they're doing night raids. As far as I know they're not testing for it, even thought it shouldn't be that hard to test I think cause it literally should be tested using the same stuff to give that stupid treatment.
Right on Pantani, it was time to pavé the way for Lance, but who can Pogi pave the way for other than a Chinese superstar. But I don't see one on the horizon.
Thinking out loud, CO use would show up in blood profiles tracked by the biological passport wouldn't it? The out clause might be glow time so they would have to test within a certain time frame after CO was huffed - hence your reference to night raids. And I also think the CO method was tried by others wasn't it (Visma) ? If so, Pogacar's advantage isn't explained by CO inhalation.
What a charming character /s honestly, I can’t tell the difference between his personality and Vingegaard’s. They’re both equally boring.
Yeah the commonly cited pathway just has it induce hypoxia which should in turn boost Epo and then red blood cell production. So by that pathway alone, it is banned by the WADA code.
Agreed. His face was frozen like a sphinx when he realised what the question was. Very uneasy. You could almost hear the wheels in his brain trying to remember what the lawyers told him to say. Interestingly he didn’t deny knowing the parties involved.
CO use could be detected by elevated levels of carboxyhemoglobin, but the half life is short (about 5 hours under normal conditions), can be lowered by using concentrated oxygen (No idea by how much it would reduce the "treatment" efficiency), and it's naturally present at varying levels depending of the individual and external factors (wait till the athlete caught claims to be a heavy smoker or to have slept next to a malfunctioning water heater ). Seems like a potential headache to detect.
Maybe Visma was first. UAE starting 2024.
Yeah, they were already talks about this during the sky years iirc, no idea if they actually used it.
Tadej picks up alot of the slack about doping because he is in the yellow jersey. Let's be honest everyone is doing it. If tadej wasn't around everyone would be saying Jonas is doping.
Again, no amount of doping or breathing CO or anything else that improves delivery and absorption of oxygen explains much of what Pogacar is doing. For example, the seated attacks that deliver huge accelerations on steep inclines - sometimes very steep inclines.
So much obsession with seated accelerations. Any of these guys can do 10W/kg seated, Pogacar is just naturally better at seated power than most and he's fresher than everyone.
I had exactly the same thought.
I don't see the logic you're trying to present. How is it connected to doping between Tadej and Rozman that Ineos got ''gifted'' two stages?
I agree with the overall but breaking things down to specific signs like "touching nose" doesn't make sense to me. It's too ott even for a noob who was helplessly born to notice what people "felt", instead of what they wanted people to project. Hence I'm actually weary of the specific ways I've seen some "body language experts" break things down.
Yes he was. lol. And your point? Pog isn’t? lol. Anyway we are in the right part of the forum.
Carbon monoxide was not banned back then. You can't fault a rider taking something that wasn't banned, lol.
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