Doping

I wonder if there is a TV show format in all of this?

Dope Tell The Bride?
Great British Dope Off
Beadles About (To Inject)
Dope Peter
Doping in the Dark
Doctor Who's Got the Highest Hematocrit
Doper's Den

Was there anything sensational in any of the releases, e.g. the Williams sisters or the gymnast?

Or was it all people with coughs or runny noses?*

*not meaning to belittle my asthmatic brethren

Was there anything sensational in any of the releases

No, that's why were all talking bullshit instead of going "I knew it!"

The real issue is that Russia is a bunch of cheats and why the fuck were they allowed at the Olympics but banned from the Paras?

simon biles was ritalin, for ADHD

Williams sisters was mainly opiate painkillers (oxycodone, hydromorphone, rednisone, prednisolone, triamcinolone and formoterol)

full details if you care here http://fancybear.net/page-1.html

We might have just been protecting the cyclists and ignoring the nasty cheating Yankee tennis players/gymnasts.

I love how triumphalist the release is then, if it really is all fart and no poo.

There are collapsing stars with less dense energy sources at their core than my flapjacks.

You should market this. I'd buy it.

You don't need a tue for glucocorticoids out of competition. So who knows who takes them out of competition.

Can't say I lost any weight when I've taken them.

Anyway releasing TUEs is boring. It's not juicy. And if there is a problem, it's not with the athletes but the TUE system and wada for allowing them. All legal and above board.

Can't say I lost any weight when I've taken them.

Take more, then PM your dealer's number :)

J Vaughters was very vocal yesterday on Twitter about corticosteroid OOC abuse (i.e. neck fucking loads of it) by cyclists to lose weight and how the one thing MPCC gets right is their cortisol level test that can pick up the symptoms. Proper use doesn't shift weight.

https://twitter.com/vaughters

gets pen

How much exactly?

#hippyisnotfat

I got as far as "Made available online" and glazed (doughnut) over...

http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/content/197/2/189.full

I don't understand how it would cause weight loss though?

hippy's summary of the above article: "It fucks with your metabolism."

Ok.

A doctor friend of mine told me they're pretty bad for you. If taken often or a lot.

But yeah, out of competition no TUE needed. http://www.globaldro.com/UK/search/ingredient-status/TVhEQ21MVS90bDNjeHZUSTBwSXRGbFlnUCswWjQwL3k1

Yeah, steroids are I think because the normal bits of your body that regulate that kind of thing stop doing so and you can cause all kind of imbalances. Last thing I need is fucking lifelong insulin resistance or something due to steroid abuse.

With the amount you'd need to get down to Tour weight, you'd be screwed!

I'd have to eat so much of it that the weight of the drugs alone would fuck up my power to weight :P

Methylphenidate (Ritalin, ConcertaXL etc) would probably be one option for a more gradual loss. IANADoctor, metabolism flatter throughout the day, less snacking due to impact on hunger mechanisms of changes in dopamine reuptake.

Risk of diabetes later on if you let your blood sugar stay low too long though.

Oh my dayz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37371735

I'm shocked - who would have thought that weightlifters from former SSRs would dope?

http://cyclingtips.com/news/russian-track-racer-ekaterina-gnidenko-disqualified-from-london-2012-games/

I'm not shocked about any of the individual cases, but if weightlifting has got to this point whereby based on actual doping convictions it is basically impossible to have any legitimacy in an event, how is it still in the Olympics? This is a rhetorical question, as I understand really. (IOC are useless).

https://twitter.com/oufeh/status/776395497355476992