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Dear Wiggo said:Keep in mind he is the Dr interviewed by Walsh to give Froome's BP profile the all clear...
Wait what!?
gooner said:Not cycling but linked it in as it's in reference to Dr. Steve Peters with Sky and British Cycling. Rodgers has warned other clubs from snatching him away from Liverpool and I seen last week his role has increased there with him turning up to games now in Liverpool gear. He's getting a lot of media attention at the moment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ds-off-Liverpools-mind-guru-Steve-Peters.html
I'd love to know what's the big deal with him in comparison to others. It's not as if sports psychologists are anything new to sport with guys like Willi Railo around.
I've seen respected journalists like Michael Calvin big him up as well.
martinvickers said:He's not a psychologist. He's a psychiatrist, and one with a history of dealing with deeply abnormal minds. Given that he was dealing with the likes of Wiggins and Pendleton when he was brought in, I'm not altogether surprised they went hardcore on the mental side. seems to work, though - wouldn't want to overegg the pudding, but Liverpool have certainly improved markedly, especially their mid-range underachieving players like Henderson.
del1962 said:I don't think Suarez has bitten anyone recently either
martinvickers said:A miracle worker, I tell ye!
Jesus, I wish #mufc had him. Ever a club needed psychiatric treatment....
martinvickers said:He's not a psychologist. He's a psychiatrist, and one with a history of dealing with deeply abnormal minds. Given that he was dealing with the likes of Wiggins and Pendleton when he was brought in, I'm not altogether surprised they went hardcore on the mental side. seems to work, though - wouldn't want to overegg the pudding, but Liverpool have certainly improved markedly, especially their mid-range underachieving players like Henderson.
Digger said:We'll see on Sunday how it goes!!
Actually, on a sidenote, how you think Sunday's game will go?
Bumeington said:That was Alan Farrell
Dear Wiggo said:We're both wrong
It was Richard Freeman.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cycling...-froome-unfair-journalist-20130722-2qf3v.html
Nathan12 said:"Before I could be satisfied, I spent two weeks re-examining all of his blood samples from his two seasons in our team and looked at all the information in his biological passport".
Bilharzia can't have affected his blood then, according to Freeman. But Froome says it feeds on RBCs. And Brailsford gave it as the reason for his inconsistencies. So what effect does it have on performance?
Nathan12 said:"Before I could be satisfied, I spent two weeks re-examining all of his blood samples from his two seasons in our team and looked at all the information in his biological passport".
Bilharzia can't have affected his blood then, according to Freeman. But Froome says it feeds on RBCs. And Brailsford gave it as the reason for his inconsistencies. So what effect does it have on performance?
Catwhoorg said:Froome was flat out wrong, when he says it feeds of RBC, but then again he isn't a doctor and may not have had a full grasp of what it actually does.
Dear Wiggo said:The BS goes deeper than that, sorry.
Michelle Cound says he got the test for the parasite coz his brother with riddled with it - either here in the clinic or on twitter or somewhere equally public.
Froome says in a video interview he was told he had it by UCI BP test people, as if he had never heard of it.
Then there's the treatment that seems all kinds of wonky and fortuitously successful for a couple of years right before he needs to perform off the scale.
Dear Wiggo said:The BS goes deeper than that, sorry.
Michelle Cound says he got the test for the parasite coz his brother with riddled with it - either here in the clinic or on twitter or somewhere equally public.
Froome says in a video interview he was told he had it by UCI BP test people, as if he had never heard of it.
Then there's the treatment that seems all kinds of wonky and fortuitously successful for a couple of years right before he needs to perform off the scale.
http://www.decodedscience.com/chris-froomes-parasite-what-is-bilharzia-anyway/33544/2In a June 27 Telegraph article by Ian Chadband, Froome’s brother is quoted as saying that they used to fish and hunt in rice fields in Kenya.
“Those fields were riddled with bilharzia,” Chadband writes, “the debilitating parasitic infection which affected all three brothers for years and which seriously stunted Chris’s first years as a professional.”
Digger said:Had to look at Walsh's book again last night for research.
The bilharzia in the book. Summary. Froome had normal medicine. Stronger wasn't needed as it wasn't a bad enough case.
While he was visiting his brother in KENYA, the UCI performed a blood test. He asked them to look for something as he wasn't feeling good etc.
Walsh said the side effects of the drug are brutal as it wipes 'stuff' out. (His words)
For a week to ten days the patient is wiped out also.
He said the Bilharzia chomps your red blood cells, gives rashes, causes lethargy, headaches, fever and other things.
Walsh said Bilharzia subsided and he raced well in March and April of 2011. Then it returned.Took more Biltricide after TOS in 2011. And also his work with Julich on 'bike skills, life skills, and race skill' came to fruition.
And people wonder why we think Walsh sold out.
sniper said:http://www.decodedscience.com/chris-froomes-parasite-what-is-bilharzia-anyway/33544/2
perhaps there is more in that chadband telegraph article. (no time to look for it now)
Nathan12 said:Sweet Jesus that's a load of crap. Is he simply not worried about his professional reputation any more? For a start- what does he mean by 'normal' medicine. Praziquantel is what you take to cure bilharzia, mild infection or not. But a 'mild case' would not keep appearing! Froome's case, since it reoccurs multiple times (to the point where he should be a medical marvel), must be a serious infection- which, according to medical studies, lowers haemoglobin Yet the Sky doc Freeman said no change in his blood values.
Spencer the Half Wit said:Have you got a link for the lowering of the haemoglobin, as I'm sure Science is Cool linked a paper showing it didn't. Could be wrong though.
Spencer the Half Wit said:Have you got a link for the lowering of the haemoglobin, as I'm sure Science is Cool linked a paper showing it didn't. Could be wrong though.