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What's the performance benefit here? Because the only people I've seen saying it has one are ex-dopers who like nothing more than getting their names in the press now they are defenders of the sport (having previously pissed all over it when they were actually racing).
NHS guidelines suggest that one of the side effects for Kenalog is rapid weight gain. There is no mention of rapid weight loss, which has now been accepted as a fact by those who want to cast Sky in a bad light.
Personally I'm ambivalent on it, there's a line beyond which you are cheating. The fact that Sky get right up to that line should surprise no-one in my opinion.
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The use of triamcinolone acetonide as a PED was well known long before this. Millar wrote about it in his book in 2011. It was the drug Armstrong obtained a post dated TUE for in 2010. This isn't a case of ex-dopers coming out after the event and saying 'oh yeah, I took that too'.
The benefits I have read are:
- catabolic steroid that breaks down muscle, facilitating weight loss and aiding power to weight ratio.
- reduces inflammation and aids recovery.
- creates a feeling of energy.
I haven't heard a single doctor say this is a routine drug of choice to treat symptoms. I have read a number of doctor's state that other drugs that can be taken by inhallation and don't have the side effects would be equally effective. The doctor in the article below calls it 'bonkers' and a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut'.
- catabolic steroid that breaks down muscle, facilitating weight loss and aiding power to weight ratio.
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If you can use a PED within the letter of the regulations, albeit not in the spirit, all the better. The presence of a TUE legitimizes the use. The TUE system can clearly be abused though.
Do you disagree with this? Or do you think that riders should try and obtain TUEs for whatever they can get away with, and if they obtain a performance benefit so be it?