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BC and have always been very ruthless in pursuit of success, I have little doubt they push the envelope in terms of 'treatments' and 'supplements'. Not cheating, but not always within the ethics of fair athletic competition.
Although not something that has seen 99 athletes get popped for it since it was added to the banned list.
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He was telling us that Britain’s top cyclists, famous for the zero-tolerance approach to doping imposed by their managers, are no strangers to substances that become banned.
You make that sound more suspicious than it needs to be. Let's say, for the sake of argument, the BC medical staff issue the riders with a list of approved OTC cold remedies to take if they get the sniffles during the winter. Would it not be wise, under those circumstances, to draw attention to anything which had to be deleted from the list as a result of a change of policy at WADA? Rather than just issue a new list each year and leave it to athlete to pay attention, actually issue a specific bulletin saying that if you have a particular product in your bathroom cabinet, bin it now because it's not on this years approved list.
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Interesting comments from Wiggins on Sharapova picked up in this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/mar/11/maria-sharapova-aura-blemish-doubts-tennis
"Her own drug was unknown to most of us until this week. She took meldonium for 10 years, allegedly on prescription from her family doctor to treat a variety of ailments. But if there is one thing we know about athletes it is that even the non-cheats among them will explore any potential marginal gain in the effort to acquire an edge.
Bradley Wiggins gave an inadvertent glimpse into that mindset this week. Answering a question about Sharapova, he replied that he felt sorry for her but that there was no excuse for ignorance of the annual updates to the list of prohibited medications. Then he added: “British Cycling are really on the ball – Richard Freeman, the doctor – in terms of things that have been changed, saying: ‘Please don’t take this any more.’”
He was telling us that Britain’s top cyclists, famous for the zero-tolerance approach to doping imposed by their managers, are no strangers to substances that become banned. This might be thought to put them in a bracket with all those Russian skaters, ski jumpers and goodness knows who else who have been paying around £5 for a packet of 40 tablets of meldonium imported from Latvia for the last few years."