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Jimmy_Fingers

While I'm not one to read 'virus' as code for doping, and I do acknowledge pro's susceptibility to illness due to the conditions they often race in and the extremely low body fat, I am curious as tio the nature of the viruses that manage to lay low riders for months and months. I'm thinking Porte last year, Kittel this year, Cadel in 2012, Hushovd in 2012 (?) . Just wondering exactly what the nature of the viral infections they are suffering and why despite top medical treatment they last for such a blinking long time.

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TooTallTim in reply to @Jimmy_Fingers

I would put money on him having developed chronic fatigue syndrome. I've had something like that since I was 15, and pushing your body to exhaustion is exactly the sort of thing that causes it to flare up, usually as symptoms similar to viral tonsillitis.