Doping

Froome, yesterday: we will explain everything in the next few days

Sky, today: no we won’t

Brilliant PR as per usual

From the same playbook as Wiggo's "can't wait to have my say" before saying... "Trust me guys, totally legit, promise."

I've got a Salbutamol inhaler, I'll give you guys a puff at £20/pop.

P.S. some of the symptoms of sports-induced asthma are quite amusing:

• Fatigue during exercise
  
• Poorer than expected athletic performance
  
• Feeling out of shape even when you're in good physical shape
  
• Avoidance of activity (a sign primarily among young children)
  
  

I'd have thought "not being able to fucking breathe properly" would've featured more highly to be honest.

I cut off the boring symptoms. I get a bit wheezy once a year if I run or cycle up a big hill in the snow. It's not as bad as full-blown asthma

I've never suffered any asthma, doing anything. At least until the Worlds in 2015 when I had a quite scary inability to breathe properly. I got measured and my lung function was ~70% of normal. Since I stopped smoking crack I've not had a recurrence.

stopped smoking crack

Is that where the weight gain started?

bingo!

Still useful for fueling my club runs...

I've got a Salbutamol inhaler, I'll give you guys a puff at £20/pop

Not very good value, I think I'll give it a miss. £25 gets you a full course of doping with salbutamol from an online pharmacy, or £8.80 gets you two full inhalers via NHS prescription if you just want to use it for the proper purpose.

Jesus, that sounds like me after every ride!

Better take up doping then!

Ah you poor Engerlanders.

Since my vague “possibly asthma” diagnosis last November I’ve had 2 salbutamol inhalers, 1 clenil inhaler, 2 different spacer devices and a peak flow meter and not paid a penny for any of it.

not paid a penny for any of it

That's the trouble with socialised services - if you don't have to get your wallet out, you imagine it's kostenlos

You can get free NHS prescriptions if, at the time the prescription is dispensed, you:
*are 60 or over
*are under 16
*are 16-18 and in full-time education
*are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months and have a valid maternity exemption certificate (MatEx)
*have a specified medical condition and have a valid medical exemption certificate (MedEx)
*have a continuing physical disability that prevents you going out without help from another person and have a valid MedEx
*hold a valid war pension exemption certificate and the prescription is for your accepted disability
*are an NHS inpatient
You're also entitled to free prescriptions if you or your partner – including civil partner – receive, or you're under the age of 20 and the dependant of someone receiving:
*Income Support
*Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
*Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
*Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
*Universal Credit and meet the criteria

You can get free NHS prescriptions if, at the time the prescription is dispensed, you:

*are in Scotland
> > *are 60 or over
*are under 16
*are 16-18 and in full-time education
*are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months and have a valid maternity exemption certificate (MatEx)
*have a specified medical condition and have a valid medical exemption certificate (MedEx)
*have a continuing physical disability that prevents you going out without help from another person and have a valid MedEx
*hold a valid war pension exemption certificate and the prescription is for your accepted disability
*are an NHS inpatient
You're also entitled to free prescriptions if you or your partner – including civil partner – receive, or you're under the age of 20 and the dependant of someone receiving:
*Income Support
*Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
*Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
*Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
*Universal Credit and meet the criteria

FTFY.

Wooly backs get it free as well.

The Welsh?

Yep

What's your peak flow bro? I got 540 which puts me in the 70-year-old range 🤣

I think technique plays a part though. Also didn't pay for my inhaler.

My 68yo mother who is on all sorts of respiratory meds has higher peak flow than me. Maybe I need to get some salbutamol.

Yeah massive issue that, much worse than charging people for treatment and make it a class issue.

(Possibly missing some blunt irony here)

I’ve just done 3 weeks of it morning and night and I’m pretty evenly spread between 550 and 650. Maybe slightly more of the results being 600+.

I think I’d agree about technique, as I’d not feel like my breathing was any different from one day to the next but have a difference of 100 in my test results.

I just had a Spirograph test done at the hospital and the guy that administered that said I was at about 78-80% of lung capacity (I presume for my age, weight and height as he took these) which about correlated to the norms chart for the peak flow meter which says I should be doing about 670.

This might be behind the paywall, but interesting if you can read it;
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-made-terrible-blunder-says-drug-test-adviser-lxcnbrd8f?shareToken=9744f1f83b5e0c75b480e278402b2388

Essentially the scientist behind the Salbutamol test saying it was developed to use with swimmers, and that cycling has specific traits that it failed to incorporate.

I was hoping to see that graph for old times sake.
I wonder how Petacchi is feeling, relief, anger or maybe a mix.