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  • Should Salbutamol be on the banned list? I get that it’s similar to clenbuterol, which was abused previously... but with [reportedly] no performance enhancing ability (apart from mouse studies showing muscle growthat mega doses, which didn’t translate to humans).

    Lethal dose of Salbutamol is effectively impossible to reach unless you consume kg instead of micrograms, so not really a dangerous drug - fails on D. No evidence to suggest it’s performance enhancing (apart from similar mouse models, as above) - so not PE. Hard to call it a PED.

    This seems like a culture of lazy and risk averse regulation by the regulators. I’ll take a stab at why it’s on the list: it’s personally politically very risky for the regulators to take something off the list (and very rewarding to put something on) yet they don’t personally feel the pain created when additional items (guidelines etc) are added - because they don’t ride, they regulate. So they keep increasing the thickness of the rulebook.

    And then something like this happens. Most people ignore the nuance, will forever brand Froome a cheat and move on. While the analyst that most recently reviewed Salbutamol for the list, including guidelines, decided not to stick their neck out and lives to push paper another day.

  • There's no nuance though - there's a specific limit for this drug which he broke. They could set a limit and a test for milk of magnesia if they wanted (in before someone tells me there already is one...), and it would have to be strictly adhered to.

    You can claim as much as you like that it's not performance enhancing, that's not relevent in this case.

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