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doping in cycling.

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  • 19-06-2005 9:22pm
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    lili
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    what do you guys think of the use of doping in modern cycling? how widespread is the problem, do you think the big riders use and what's your opinion on the solutions?


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    Johnny Jukebox
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    lili wrote:
    what do you guys think of the use of doping in modern cycling? how widespread is the problem, do you think the big riders use and what's your opinion on the solutions?

    Hmm, don't know much about the road scene, but in MTB you don't win without it (or even place).

    Of course, I can't stand over that statement in public :)


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    roadmanmad
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    There has been evidence of drug usage for many years.

    But proving it is difficult.

    The difficulty I have I that I am a very average cyclist. Average speed on the road is now up to over 18mph. If I were to attempt to compete, I cannot take certain drug for specific conditions.

    I have Haemochromatosis. Very High Iron Count genitic disorder. I have a phenominal recovery rate because of this. It also has side affects

    see www.haemochromatosis-ir.ie

    Thats beside the point. The condition is performance enhancing. What's more, nearly one in 40 Irish have and they do not know about it.

    I do not agree with high tech drug use in the pro's. But i would not accept that I cannot take a paracetemol as a amateur.

    Read Lance armstrongs book 'Its not about this bike'. Interesting from adrug point of view.


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    Mr. Presentable
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    Never mind the Lance Armstrong book. The definitive is the Paul Kimmage one. Get it, read it.

    The only ones that might not be doped are the very young and the very slow.

    I admire Armstrong for his recovery from cancer, but do not believe he is any cleaner than, say, Cipollini was.


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    lili
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    me either, i'm not sure that the top of basket are so clean. average of 40km/h in the mont ventoux seems to me very strange. even the festina team which was archi-doped in 98 didn't reach a such chrono.


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    Morgan
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    It reminds me of some old quotes from the Tour

    Questioned about the role of amphetamines in cycling and whether he had used amphetamines, Fausto Coppi (Tour winner 1949 and 1953) replied "Only when necessary." Asked how often that was, Coppi replied "Almost all the time."

    Go back to the 1924 Tour and remember the words of Henri Pelissier: "Do you want to see how we keep going? That's cocaine to go in our eyes. Chloroform for our gums. This is ointment to warm the knees. And pills, do you want to see the pills?" His brother, Francis, added: "We keep going on dynamite. In the evenings we dance around our rooms instead of sleeping."


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