Doping

Read an article recently about everyday strava wankers who dope to be the fastest in strava or who drive up in their cars with it running. People are ridiculous.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/dope-and-glory-the-rise-of-cheating-in-amateur-sport

I think similar things happen in online video games - people find ways to cheat, even though cheating takes most of the fun out of winning. Anyone play Doom when they were a kid? IDDQD or something, wasn't it, to make you invincible against the monsters? Where's the fun in that? Bring that into actual online gaming, and all you are is a weird troll doing their best to ruin other people's fun. I mean, it's fucking rife, online trolling. What am I saying here? I'm completely undermining my other argument. Whatever. Welcome to Brexit.

facts, arguments, experts and coherence don't matter.

MAKE DOPING GREAT AGAIN! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Ha, is there an automatic no-shouting thing on lfgss? I'd typed that in all caps.

There is indeed. Can be a PITA.

Ketone drinks?

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/science/science-help-cyclists-keep-pedalling-longer/

John Hawley at the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research,
Australia, says he is perplexed by the suggestion that muscles can use
both ketones and glucose for energy at the same time.

The vast body of research shows that muscles only tap into ketones
after very prolonged exercise, when glycogen stores are spent, he
says. “The logic of this ketone supplement is that it spares your
muscle glycogen. But you have more than enough glycogen for 30 minutes
of cycling, so I can’t see why sparing it would do you any good.”

Hawley says that independent studies are needed, but says he has heard
anecdotal reports from endurance athletes who believe the ketone drink
improves their performance under certain conditions. “At the end of
the day, some athletes have said they feel a little bit better on
this, and that carries some weight,” he says.

That's been "coming soon" for 4-5 years

some athletes have said they feel a little bit better on this, and that carries some weight

the placebo effect...

They are commercially available in the USA I first started seeing them about a year ago , I was intrigued but the cost is uninviting .

http://www.metaketosis.com/

Ross Tucker's latest blog - I think he's gone full Vayer.

Got selected for doping controls at the r25/3h TT today along with a couple of others.

Turns out having someone watch you try and piss in a pot after a 25m TT is a little off putting. Had to wait 3.5hrs before the cups of tea, bottles of water took effect...

Had to stop 3 times in the way home to piss!

3.5hrs!? Need to watch that glow time, huh? ;)

Tell me about it, serves me right for going to the loo before the start.

Oh Tejay

I think I can hear the distant tearing noise of the BMC PR person ripping their follicles out in despair...

I think I can hear the distant sound of a lawyer going through his "bringing the organisation into disrespect" clause to see if they can dump him at no cost and buy Porte a couple a superdomestiques :-)

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Worst of all he is a full kit wanker.

'Three missed tests' for Armitstead..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36948193

That's some jawline on the lady.

Perhaps she was too busy shaving to answer the door when testers called the other couple of times she forwent an opportunity to pee in a bottle and prove her undoubted dope-freeliness.

Oh Lizzie.

Off on a technicalty called 'Mo's Doorbell.'

Oh no, really not a good show. Hard not to be suspicious I'm afraid. Tyler Hamiltons book containes a fair bit about how he and others would avoid tests and that “Ducking the out-of-competition tests was fairly easy". I'm not saying that this is what Lizzie has done, but this is what he wrote.

“One trick was to be vague in the whereabouts forms... Another trick was to change your plans at the last minute, so they were never quite sure where you were. The last trick was that when the tester showed up and you thought you might be glowing, you didn’t answer the door.”

Then he would drink loads of water, wait until the next day and then take the test when he knew all was OK.

Asleep, phone on silent and it's the testers fault - poor decision - next she'll be telling us she's never failed a dope test so she must be clean ;)