Doping

Beijing lab been taking tips from Moscow?

Haha thought you'd enjoy that

Tennis is dropping it's "silent bans" policy

http://www.thescore.com/atp/news/1084117-itf-announces-end-of-silent-bans-for-doping-in-tennis

Doping-rife tennissport in kinda half-arsed coming into line move..

http://cyclingtips.com/2016/09/australian-paralympian-michael-gallagher-to-miss-rio-after-testing-positive-for-epo/

In some ways, that's astonishing. A sad indictment of the times we live in.

Just coming to post that. Well done dickhead. All your wins are tainted.

At least it shows Au AD is still working somewhat.

Seems a massive proportion of the Norwegian XC skiers are asthmatic. Cronically so judging by the amount of medicine thats being taken.

FFS.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/29/elite-athletes-asthma-simon-yates-team-sky-swimmers

"Rapid inhalation of cold, dry air has been identified as a trigger of EIA".

From the article @hippy linked.

See my World 24hr failure last year for an example. :(

Terbutaline, the bronchodilator taken by Yates.

No threshold limits currently exist for terbutaline. For terbutaline, athletes can be granted a TUE, then administer the drug via inhalation at supratherapeutic doses with impunity.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2016/07/26/bjsports-2016-096453.abstract

Thats definitely true.

But theres some sort of ungoing investigation. So someone is suspious. The Finish xc ski team got busted some years back (for some other form of doping). The Norwegians love the sport, and of course their athletes. This isnt going Down well.

I know about the Yates case, I was posting as an example of the higher prevalence of asthma in elite athletes.

It's a winter sport though. No one cares.

:)

No threshold limits currently exist for terbutaline.

This came up during Yates' trial-by-forum, AFAIK WADA are sponsoring research into the pharmacokinetics in order to determine an excretion threshold which would correspond with normal therapeutic use. A TUE specifies the permitted dose, so exceeding that is already doping, it's just hard to prove until there's solid science to correlate urinary excretion with dosing.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/09/bradley-wiggins-lizzie-armitstead-no-excuse

Surely asthma medication is Performance Restoring Drugs rather than PEDs?

If you take it without having an asthmatic requirements then there're arguments that they enhance performance. EPO, cortisone, testosterone etc all have genuine medical uses much like asthma medication but are all abused.

#FancyBears

Taking EPO or Testosterone is increasing the levels of naturally occurring substances in the body. My understanding of Asthma medication is that they reduce the levels of substances which cause contraction in the airways, or reduce the response to those substances. Ergo, if you're not experiencing contraction of the airways, Asthma meds do nothing.

Can a placebo still be a marginal gain?

http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science/do-asthma-meds-make-you-faster

The abstract doesn't really tell us anything about the severity of symptoms. The diagnosis/treatment threshold is a high enough lung function (FEV1 <= 80% of prediction) to allow full performance on an aerobic test. Individual disease profile and atmospheric conditions can make a large difference to FEV1, as can other treatments given to the asthmatic patients in addition to the bronchodilator under test. A purely aerobic test with a gradual warm up isn't even the worst challenge for exercise induced asthma in my experience.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37352326

Fancy Bears drop copies of Froome and Wiggins TUEs

http://fancybear.net/page-2.html