Tour de France 2010

Contador press conference : on 20th July Noval and AC had meal cooked with "Spanish meat" but Vino ate hotel meal who was other Astana rider tested that day.

Bit of a super steroid for weight loss apparently. Quite big with body builders etc as it strips fat. Puts a lot of strain on the heart though according to some.

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They might as well just give up. No-one clean has a chance of winning the Tour; I believe that Contador has even made some smarmy comments about Armstrong's alleged drug use too. It's all so handbags at dawn, it's not even funny.

They might as well just let everyone take as much/many drugs as they like. If you live, you win.

(Just realised this reads like it might be a pro-Lance post. It's not.)

Clenbuterol sounds alright, might get some.

Lance is going to go up a spot! That should cheer him up.

So does this mean I get money because i put a bet on Schleck winning the tour!

Depends. Which Schleck?

Paging AndyP

What have I done?

Chorizo group buy?

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Chorizo group buy?

I guess it explains Rik.

Which bit?

Spanish chorizo is made from coarsely chopped pork and pork fat, seasoned with smoked pimentón (paprika) and salt

But no 'buterol... hmm..

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. It's there.. Just don't ask

I guess it explains Rik.

His meat is contaminated. Contaminated with love.

I'm struggling to understand what the benefit of this Clenbuterol is.

" ... It is also a non-steroidal anabolic and metabolism accelerator, through a mechanism not well understood. Its ability to increase the muscle-to-fat body ratio makes its illegal use in livestock popular to obtain leaner meats. ..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clenbuterol

Huh? The fat you burn gives you extra strenght? Or is it about the asthma stuff? I remember taking asthma medicine in my teens and it made me breathe better somehow.

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2010/09/30/1/bettiniphoto_0059728_1_full_600.jpg
Judging by the way Dave's physique is looking, I'm going to have a crack at the Worlds TT next year...
You joining me, Hippy?

He's riding for Lampre these days...

Unlike us, he sticks his guts out for the cameras.

Bet Garmin are well fucked off with SKY all over the GB kit

Continuing developments... German journalist claims he already had details of the test results including presence of plasticisers used in blood bags from another test that was done.

When questioned yesterday McQuaid denied AC was under investigation then later the press release from UCI comes out.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5846/German-journalist-claims-UCI-denied-Alberto-Contador-positive-test-says-rider-may-have-received-transfusions.aspx

Just some random numbers here; without getting into complex pharmacokinetics, an asthma patient on daily clenbuterol (not that it's much used these days, as there are better beta-2 agonists out there) should excrete about 10-150ng/ml depending on the dose (20-120µg/day) and urinary volume (0.8-2l/day). Dosing for use as a PED is about the same as the therapeutic dose for asthma, and it is not taken full time. Given this, and given that labs can obviously detect down to 0.05ng/ml, it would seem sensible for the UCI to drop it's limit substantially from the current 20ng/ml. It would be necessary to evaluate global environmental contamination to establish a proper lower limit, but it seems that PED use could yield a reading of well below 1ng/ml if the test was at the end of the "off" period of the dosing cycle.

Although clenbuterol can be used in meat production to reduce fat content, it is banned in civilised countries due to the hazard to human health from residues in meat, so you'd have to buy your food from a very dodgy source (or eat a race horse) to be exposed to it as a food contaminant. Similarly, you'd only get it in supplements if you were reckless about sourcing, since athletes subject to doping controls should studiously avoid supplements from supply chains which also handle banned substances.

slightly off topic, but after talking to a horse owner ages ago. horse meat for consumption are given different drugs to racing horses. so dodgy dodgy meat.

more likely he was on it to lean up, increase power to weight ratio
, for mountains.

there's horse meat in chorizo.....

pukes on cock