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It's not a minor steroid though is it. David Miller (pre Sky scandal) describes it as the 'most potent' drug he used.
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And here is what a medical doctor had to say about Millar's comments:
"An anabolic steroid like testosterone puts on muscle mass but this is
a catabolic steroid which breaks down muscle,” said Lipworth, who
sits on the WHO guidelines committee ARIA. “The benefits to David
Millar were probably the fact that he was taking EPO and testosterone
at the same time as he was using triamcinolone. So the anaobolic
effect of the testosterone probably counteracted the triamcinolone."David Millar was on a cocktail of drugs - I'm not sure how he has the nerve to weigh in on this.
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Can we please keep Holy David out of this, don’t we have enough ex-dopers weighing in with their valuable contributions already?
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The biological passport has had a massive impact on the sport in the past ten years. Oxygen vector doping is all but a thing of the past at WT level, which is why today’s doping ‘scandals’ are predominantly to do with the misuse of minor steroids and anti-inflammatorys rather than ghetto style blood transfusions and widespread EPO use.
There will always be cheating in sport, but cycling has made huge strides in cleaning up its act in the past ten years.