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the corticosteroid tue controversy is common in cycling (and other endurance sports run out of doors)... for all intents and purposes, it is a form of legal doping that most get granted and some denied.
i have been following the issue for years and, if memory serves, about 1/3 of all professional elite (wt) riders own a tue for one chemical or another. the absolute majority are, and have been for a while, the exemptions for corticosteroids that upset horner so much...
frankly, given the omnipresence of the legal/sanctioned corticosteroids in the peloton, horner has a point. as always, the poor is easier to ignore than the rich. that said, as cycle chick has already noted, the horner sudden finding of needing a tue at the ripe age of 43 is (or even 41) is strange to say the least.
i could go on about the medical and scientific aspect of the breathing complexities when the lungs are maxed, but the button line is that corticosteroids, even in small' therapeutic' amounts, will improve your oxygen availability and likely any endurance performance, asthmatic or not..
in my opinion, we are dealing here with a real hole in the finite effects of the INDIVIDUAL dozes of corticosteroids (a medical scientific knowledge lack) exploited (and politicized) by the commercial dimension of professional sports. the uci incompetence thus is explainable, but its selective application is loath-able, imo.
not much else to say...
a valid point and a very good question.Cycle Chic said:irondan said:I know nothing about asthma. Does it come and go or is it always with you? If he had it in 2009 he didn't seem to have it in 2013, unless everyone else had asthma and he didn't.
the corticosteroid tue controversy is common in cycling (and other endurance sports run out of doors)... for all intents and purposes, it is a form of legal doping that most get granted and some denied.
i have been following the issue for years and, if memory serves, about 1/3 of all professional elite (wt) riders own a tue for one chemical or another. the absolute majority are, and have been for a while, the exemptions for corticosteroids that upset horner so much...
frankly, given the omnipresence of the legal/sanctioned corticosteroids in the peloton, horner has a point. as always, the poor is easier to ignore than the rich. that said, as cycle chick has already noted, the horner sudden finding of needing a tue at the ripe age of 43 is (or even 41) is strange to say the least.
i could go on about the medical and scientific aspect of the breathing complexities when the lungs are maxed, but the button line is that corticosteroids, even in small' therapeutic' amounts, will improve your oxygen availability and likely any endurance performance, asthmatic or not..
in my opinion, we are dealing here with a real hole in the finite effects of the INDIVIDUAL dozes of corticosteroids (a medical scientific knowledge lack) exploited (and politicized) by the commercial dimension of professional sports. the uci incompetence thus is explainable, but its selective application is loath-able, imo.
not much else to say...